busmansholiday Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 20 hours ago, DVee8 said: My FiL's bus garage in Chester le Streets market place 1 of 4 sites they owned around Chester le street. Who was that, OK ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DVee8 Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 9 minutes ago, busmansholiday said: Who was that, OK ? They owned General omnibus chester le street, that then changed to Atkinson coaches. busmansholiday 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martc Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 The Railton Special sans body work. Powered by two supercharged Napier Lion W12 engines. It was the first ground vehicle to break 400 mph in a measured test. On 16 September 1947 John Cobb averaged 394.19 mph (385.6mph & 403.1mph) over the measured mile in both directions to take the world land speed record. Getting ready... Nearly there... Go...! http://claspgarage.blogspot.com/2013/09/railton-mobil-special.html JeeExEll, Remspoor, LightBulbFun and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martc Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 Kay Petre behind the wheel of her 10.5 litre Delage Grand Prix car. On October the 26th, 1934, she set a new world record for a flying lap with an average speed of 129.580 mph at Brooklands. puddlethumper, JeeExEll, Remspoor and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R1152 Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 On 20/02/2021 at 12:51, JeeExEll said: Check out the rusty sill. Chickenwire + glassfibre + brushed on black underseal = sorted m8. Just don't pull too hard on the seatbelt if you want to wear it. Late registration too, one of the last on a K-plate. What a cool old thing, I'd lose the roof air-horn though. As a child I remember our local butcher having one. Chicken wire in the sills? Luxury. My 16 was newspaper plus fibreglass and underseal, before they *had* to be replaced. JeeExEll 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeeExEll Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 Dannyk, RayMK, Remspoor and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeeExEll Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 1972 ad. Precision made strut top strengthening plates supplied with special bolts. (Did that really say bolts??). Rot never gets any better, only worse. Buy today. Dick Longbridge, Remspoor, Dannyk and 5 others 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R1152 Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 See also: Mk. II Cortina, Mk. IV Zephyr/Zodiac... As a kid I remember seeing someone's car - I don't think it was a Ford (BICBW) at a junction visible from my bedroom window and it had indeed come to a halt with the suspension tops peering up at the sky, much to the owner's embarrassment... 24 Cranbourn Street is the address of https://www.spaghettihouse.co.uk/restaurants/cranbourn-street JeeExEll 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remspoor Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 Austat and RayMK 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R1152 Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 15 minutes ago, Remspoor said: Wonder where that is exactly? The pre-74 R16 would appear to have Paris plates on it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busmansholiday Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 14 hours ago, R1152 said: Wonder where that is exactly? The pre-74 R16 would appear to have Paris plates on it... The van is Dutch registered and looking at the wording in McD's that appears to be in Dutch as well. Given the bicycles and trams in the distance Amsterdam ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remspoor Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 Location is Amsterdam, so I am lead to believe. Thought it would be hard to guess because of the different reg. plates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martc Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 Who’s in control here? Jawa produced a dual-control trainer motorcycle in 1949, and was probably the only manufacturer to build such a machine. Because, who wants to learn to ride with a passenger hung way out past the rear axle? But Jawa claimed a newbie could learn to ride in 30 minutes. Instructor Bill Hynes demonstrates to Vivian Kennedy. Needs some air in the front tyre. Micklefield Estate, High Wycombe, 1983. Compare and contrast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martc Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 Darnall, Sheffield. USofA stateside, 1952. One hell of a distance to get a good ceeegar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martc Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 Ambulance crew, Omsk, USSR, 1970s Remspoor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Pastry Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 32 minutes ago, martc said: Who’s in control here? Jawa produced a dual-control trainer motorcycle in 1949, and was probably the only manufacturer to build such a machine. I saw a few dual control trainer bikes in Paris years ago, never seen them anywhere else - are they still a thing? IIRC the rear bars on those were not connected to the steering though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martc Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 Bolton, 1970s. Shite Ron and Remspoor 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimH Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 Going very fast indeed is always cool but it was at its best when collars, ties and sensible footwear was involved. Sure we can all love the new stuff but you just wish they would ditch the branded polo shirts and go back to stout brogues. Easily the best looking wheels ever fitted to an LSR car. Crikey, it was big. And just because I didn't know much about this car, here is an effort from the Germans. Note the rather stout transmission. Thunderbolt's gearbox was something again but decent pictures of it are hard to come by. Remspoor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimH Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 LightBulbFun 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimH Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 Dick Longbridge and LightBulbFun 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martc Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 16 hours ago, Mr Pastry said: I saw a few dual control trainer bikes in Paris years ago, never seen them anywhere else - are they still a thing? IIRC the rear bars on those were not connected to the steering though. Can't find anything on the Parisan dual control bikes, but the crazy Czechs are still at it - soz not B&W - https://www.johns-blog.com/?p=591 To appease the B&W gods, here's another pic of the Jawa Remspoor and RayMK 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimH Posted February 26, 2021 Share Posted February 26, 2021 Amishtat, hennabm, JeeExEll and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remspoor Posted February 26, 2021 Share Posted February 26, 2021 Shite Ron, martc, RayMK and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martc Posted February 27, 2021 Share Posted February 27, 2021 ETCHY, puddlethumper, sheffcortinacentre and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martc Posted February 27, 2021 Share Posted February 27, 2021 A couple of strong German ladies carrying a Porsche 356 chassis outside the Porsche factory - year unknown. RayMK, NorfolkNWeigh, JimH and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martc Posted February 27, 2021 Share Posted February 27, 2021 'Military Highway Scout Kar (sic)' and its passengers stop for the view at Multnomah Falls, Oregon, USA, 1918. America's first camouflaged automobile has been let loose, and is now on the war path. The inhabitants of the Pacific Coast from Seattle to San Diego swear they are "seeing things." A sheriff who has a record for pinching speeders is out after the camoufleurs who committed "camouflage" to prove that America's automobiles are as chameleon-like while on the war path as those in Europe. Oakland Tribune, Oct. 28, 1917 W.L. Hughson, of KisselKar fame upon the Pacific Coast, has donated the famous Kissel military scout car, recently used to blaze the "three nation run," to the government department having the new operations of "camouflage" in its charge. A committee of three prominent San Francisco artists will paint this car with color patches, which suggests nothing except the surrounding earth, trees, grain fields, sky, etc., making an exact facsimile of the cars now being used by the allies along the various war fronts Motor West, Oct. 15, 1917 Interpreting this I think it may be a civilian who has painted his car to look like an army scout car. RayMK 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martc Posted February 27, 2021 Share Posted February 27, 2021 Desmond’s Hip City. Brixton, circa 1970. Remspoor, JeeExEll, DSdriver and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martc Posted February 27, 2021 Share Posted February 27, 2021 Scrapped 10/11/1990. Commuters at Churchgate Railway Station, Mumbai. 1996. Photo © Raghu Rai. Remspoor and Austat 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martc Posted March 1, 2021 Share Posted March 1, 2021 Remspoor, LightBulbFun, DSdriver and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeeExEll Posted March 2, 2021 Share Posted March 2, 2021 Imaginative repairs after a crash? Remspoor, fred, sheffcortinacentre and 1 other 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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