Aerial Tarp Challenge - plus excavator joy

[mouseflakes]

We've always had the Cat Piss Tarp Challenge.
 
To this I once added the Cat Fish Carp Challenge (to a mixed response).
 
Now I reveal...
 
The Aerial Tarp Challenge!!!

Every now and then I like to fling a knapsack in the Saxo, sling the Saxo in a hedge and drag my bloated carcass up a hill.

Half way up a very steep accent today, while 'admiring the view' (recovering from a near-coronary) I spied this little cache of cack almost directly below ('scuse the photo - full zoom on my very old 'snapshot special')...



I'm not that hot on older chod. Land Rover nose is obvious I think and I'm guessing an Armstrong Siddeley too (middle car with no roof)? Is the 'Jeep' style thing an Austin Champ? Any more ideas?

[quicksilver]

Middle car is deffo a Siddeley, probably a Hurricane. The two-tone one to its left might be one too, a Star Sapphire possibly, but I've no idea on the blue one.

[mouseflakes]

Riley RM

Of course! I knew I recognised the grille - just couldn't place it. Cheers!

[mouseflakes]

Middle car is deffo a Siddeley

Yeah - they're a 'distinctive' design aren't they? 

[Justin Case]

[smart-arse mode]

The front and middle cars both look like Armstrong Siddeley Hurricanes (the convertible model) and the one under the tarp could also be an Armstrong Siddeley (probably a Whitley, the four-light saloon version). The Riley is later than the RMs, flush headlights and one-piece screen, so it is likely to be either a Ditchfinder or the later 2.6

 

Armstrong Siddeley also made a Typhoon and a Lancaster at the same time. Car names just aren't what the used to be    [/smart-arse mode]

 

edit -  just looked at a larger image and now agree with mercrocker that AS Sapphire seems most likely

[Angrydicky]

Yep, I'd agree with Vantman. The one under the cover is more difficult, I'd suggest a Rover P2/P3 or possibly a Morris 14.

 

Edit: Or, as alfisti says, it could well be another Armstrong.

[STUNO]

Austin Champ...Triumph Gloria?( the big razor edge saloon pre Standard Vanguard)...Armstrong Siddley Typhoon Or a Whittley without a roof!...Riley RM...and another A.S. in front.

And I stand ready to be corrected!

[mercrocker]

Deffo not Riley - RMs had timber framed cloth covered roof with distinctive seams - none of that stuff would be there now  - just fresh air and spoors...The later ditchfinder and 2.6 had grilles integral with the bonnet (so they could all rot together).  I reckon its what quicksilver said - a Sapphire.   Other than that it looks just like the bottom of my Dinky tat box.....

[STUNO]

Yes,deffo not an RM or Ditchfinder, a rethink tells me the windscreen profile is wrong for both. Plus mercrockers wisdom is correct.

[mouseflakes]

Just Googled the Truimph Gloria - square-set roof and screen shape look similar don't they?
 

it looks just like the bottom of my Dinky tat box

 
Do you have any broken excavators in there like these?

 

Later in the day I dropped in to the Threlkeld Mining Museum. If old mining machinery would pique the interest of anyone here I'll post some more photos like the one below.


 

[Mr_Bo11ox]

All sounds jolly interesting, where did you spot these then MF? Obv no need to reveal the exact location.

[mouseflakes]

The Threlkeld Mining Museum is near Keswick. I think the arrangement is that a load of 'mine trust' members all keep their machines there and restore them on-site. Visitors can look around a small museum packed with info and photos of the old Cumbrian mines and quarries as well as plodding up into the disused quarry on the fell behind to see all the old excavators and what-have-you. There's also a 'recreation' of an old mine which is quite funky too. Entry is £3 I think.
It's one of my favourite days out

[overrun]

URGH there all git old n ugly

[Junkman]

 

 

 

 

From left to right:

 

Austin Champ - Armstrong-Siddeley Whiteley - Armstrong-Siddeley Typhoon - Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire 346 6-light - Land-Rover

Sideways in front of the AS trio is what's left of another Armstrong Siddeley Typhoon.

[Micrashed]

Not a million miles from where I keep Chez Touring Micrashed, I might have to take the lad for a day out ( not the missus, it wouldnt be here cup of hot brown beverage at all).

[mercrocker]

Dinky Tat  Box positive match!

 

[mouseflakes]

Zoids!!!!!    

[mouseflakes]

From left to right:

 

Austin Champ - Armstrong-Siddeley Whiteley - Armstrong-Siddeley Typhoon - Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire 346 6-light - Land-Rover

Sideways in front of the AS trio is what's left of another Armstrong Siddeley Typhoon.

 

Thanks JM. Typed with such authority, I reckon these are probably all correct.

[mouseflakes]

Not a million miles from where I keep Chez Touring Micrashed, I might have to take the lad for a day out ( not the missus, it wouldnt be here cup of hot brown beverage at all).

 

Definitely NSFW(ife).

 

A totally lo-tec (no-tec) experience, but I suspect most forum members here would like it. Everything there is mechanical (and rusty).

 

 

 

[Micrashed]

Those photos have made me moist.

[mouseflakes]

Don't change into your dry undercrackers yet Mr Shed...

 

 

 

 

[londonm]

Are those cars abandoned, or have they been awaiting restoration since 1968? Surely they must be worth a few bob?

[mouseflakes]

Pretty sure they're not abandoned. Just a bit wind-swept.

[Micrashed]

That looks like a bloody GR9 place for an Autoshite Unofficial Official North West Contingent Meet up - shame we seem to have missed the mine tour now for the year, but the railway and museum seem to be open still.

Working next weekend but I fancy a trip up there soon.... 

http://www.threlkeldquarryandminingmuseum.co.uk/

 

BTW Mr Flakes

BEST PHOTO OF EvAH.

[mouseflakes]

Glad you like it!

 

Backdrop and weather helps 

 

Believe it or not, one of the museum staff told me that a visitor asked him if he got bored looking at that 'gloomy old mountain' and surrounded by old rusty old machinery all day!

[Micrashed]

I love the Lakes me. Would give my right bollock to retire up near Penrith, in fact was offered a decent job up at Whitehaven once upon a year but had to turn it down when we couldnt organise schooling for Lurch. One day though....

 

How the hell could you get tired of loking at that view? Sounds like he was a f****** nutter.

[Junkman]

When?

[Micrashed]

Back in 2005 I think it was.