Eye-catching black and whites

[Remspoor]

[martc]

On 4/4/2022 at 7:06 AM, High Jetter said:

Any idea where that was taken?

Judging by the bus stop sign somewhere in or near that there London.

[High Jetter]

2 minutes ago, martc said:

Judging by the bus stop sign somewhere in or near that there London.

Yes, spotted that but was hoping to narrow it down further to see if that launderette was still existing.

[martc]

Waterson Street, Shoreditch, 1958.

[Richard_FM]

2 hours ago, martc said:

Waterson Street, Shoreditch, 1958.

Looks like where IM Foreman had his junk yard.

[Remspoor]

[Remspoor]

[Remspoor]

Paignton.

[Remspoor]

[JimH]

In the process of seeing what photographic record there was left of the old tram depot museum I found this one. 

And this was what was under the cover

I reckon that is pretty cool. 

[Asimo]

[Remspoor]

St Helens, Merseyside

[lesapandre]

On 4/5/2022 at 7:36 PM, martc said:

Waterson Street, Shoreditch, 1958.

Just looked it up. An area of London I know well. Only building that survives is the new block on the left - everything else gone and replaced.

[warch]

19 hours ago, JimH said:

In the process of seeing what photographic record there was left of the old tram depot museum I found this one. 

And this was what was under the cover

I reckon that is pretty cool. 

I often wonder what the spacecraft and missions in a theoretical British space programme would've been named, America have this tendency to make everything sound exciting and dramatic, so they have the Eagle flying the Apollo mission. We'd probably have the Stoat Lander or the Marmond Harrington Lunar Traversing Device as part of Operation Lawn Tennis. 

[Metal Guru]

1 hour ago, warch said:

I often wonder what the spacecraft and missions in a theoretical British space programme would've been named, America have this tendency to make everything sound exciting and dramatic, so they have the Eagle flying the Apollo mission. We'd probably have the Stoat Lander or the Marmond Harrington Lunar Traversing Device as part of Operation Lawn Tennis. 

We had a fairly mixed bag in the aircraft industry from dramatic (Vulcan, Spitfire, Lightning), to insects ( Mosquito , Tiger Moth), or plain boring named after provincial towns , (Lancaster, Stirling).

An early satellite was Prospero , so maybe Shakespeare would have been the theme.

More likely , it would be sponsored and named after a crap company like Cinch or Sun Life Over 50s plan.

[mintwth]

Britain did have a space launch programme that ran from the early 50s to 1971. The Prospero satellite was launched by the Black Arrow rocket. The Black Arrow was a development of the Black Knight.

The Black Arrow was cancelled in 1971 ending the British space launch programme. The cancellation also gave Britain the distinction of being the only country to date to have developed a satellite launch capability and then abandoned it. 

[JimH]

There are wee bits left here and there. The museum at Leicester has an assembled Blue Streak and East Fortune has a bit of one on display.

We sort of didn't completely abandon it because Blue Streak ended up as a bit of the European launch vehicle.  

[RayMK]

Leicester still has a UK developed LEROS liquid propellant rocket engine in stock although maybe not on display. These engines were (are) successful, having inserted numerous satellites into geostationary orbit (LEROS 1c and 2b) and several have been used on interplanetary missions e.g. to Mars, Mercury and Jupiter (see LEROS 1b). Successive UK governments have cut back on research spending, so my career which started in 1972 in the scientific civil service and ended on retirement in 2008 as the Engineering, Design and Development Manager, spanned civil service then Royal Ordnance (semi privatised), British Aerospace, Atlantic Research (US owned) and American Pacific (US company) ownership despite my workplace location remaining the same throughout. It has since been through MOOG ownership (US) and is currently owned by a Norwegian aerospace company which is still doing reasonable business selling the same range of rocket engines to the space industry. Probably nearly 200 missions have been equipped with these engines to date. Unfortunately, I do not have a black and white photo to catch your eyes and justify this entry 😁.

Edit: The LEROS and LTT product lines are for satellite propulsion (LTT is for attitude control and station keeping) i.e. they are not launchers.

[Remspoor]

[Austat]

Broken Hill, New South Wales, 1970:

[martc]

Straße der Nationen, 1961, Karl-Marx-Stadt, der DDR.

[lisbon_road]

Paris, perhaps 1970.  Taken by one of my parents.

[Remspoor]

Austin Gipsy's in service with the Norwegian Post Office 

[Remspoor]

Bainbridge, North Yorkshire

[Remspoor]

Wigan, again.

[lesapandre]

On 4/15/2022 at 10:09 AM, Austat said:

Broken Hill, New South Wales, 1970:

Austin 1800 - probably Aussie made with the original 'cow haunch' boot line and horizontal rear lights. Dear old BMC changed the rear lights to small fins later on - long after fins were out of fashion.

[Austat]

[Metal Guru]

15 hours ago, Remspoor said:

Wigan, again.

Hill man Imp and Bedford HA from 1963, can’t see anything newer, so 63/64?

[Austat]

[Remspoor]

Paignton