Eye-catching black and whites

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A rather full rally Landcrab.

WTF, is this a taxi-service?

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V4 Transit with generator.

Keith, Scotlandshire.

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A place called Portmahomack. Inverness-shire.

By the sea. Very much.

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Go go go little 1159cc HB Viva.

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Magazine article, November 1968.

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More Scotlandshite from pics of rural houses. Sunbeam. But what's that on the left?

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Bingo!

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V4 Transit with generator air compressor

Keith, Scotlandshire.

 

 

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What happened next ? That Simca? is carefully poised to do a quick flip, the rh rear tyre is well tucked under ready to do the dirty.

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Hon. Charles Rolls in a Rolls Royce, Peel. 27 September 1906 Tourist Trophy motorcar race

[JimH]

[lesapandre]

USA and France

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Village garage.

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Hon. Charles Rolls in a Rolls Royce, Peel. 27 September 1906 Tourist Trophy motorcar race

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Whats the source for this photo? Is it a glass-plate negative. Amazing depth of field.

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Whats the source for this photo? Is it a glass-plate negative. Amazing depth of field.

I think it is a glass plate negative.

It is in the Isle Of Man Museum photographic archive so I have only seen it in electronic form.

Unfortunately the notes are a bit hit and miss.

There are a number of photos that my Dad and I donated, that are glass plate negatives but the notes make no mention of that on some but do mention it on others!

Here is a linky to the iMuseum page for this photo https://www.imuseum.im/search/archive_record/view?id=mnh-museum-535115&type=archive&tab=all&from=0&term=charles+rolls&size=20&sort=&filter=&view=&images=&ttmgp=0&rfname=&rlname=&machine=&race=&raceyear=&linked=0&pos=1

[lesapandre]

Thank you. 

[keef]

From photos found at my grandparents house! :-

 

 

 

No idea on make and models of cars; anyone?

[RayMK]

I think the lower photo and the rear view above matches the features of a Wolseley from about 1920.

[MGSven]

Thank you for the link to the museum galleries.

Fantatic pictures of how motorracing was in the formative years.

 

I would also suggest Wolseley on the later pics.

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Selwyn F. Edge coming through the Bungalow corner, driving a Napier in the 1904 Gordon Bennett Eliminating Trails.

(The current T.T. course )

[JeeExEll]

 

Newcastle, January 1979.

Ten year old Alfa dissolving by the minute.

But, amazingly, the 1969 Alfa Romeo 1750 is still around somewhere in 2018 according to DVLA.

 

Edit, . . . . after a bit of googling, check out this link.

https://www.historics.co.uk/buying/auctions/2016-06-11/cars/ref-32-1969-alfa-romeo-1750-gtam-evocation/

 

Interesting result from a random old winter street pic off the internet.

Maybe one day Captn 70s' Doloshite or Dan's Capri may turn up in an old pic.

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But why?

[Tadhg Tiogar]

 

Newcastle, January 1979.

Ten year old Alfa dissolving by the minute.

But, amazingly, the 1969 Alfa Romeo 1750 is still around somewhere in 2018 according to DVLA.

Proper snow in those days.

 

Edit, . . . . after a bit of googling, check out this link.

https://www.historics.co.uk/buying/auctions/2016-06-11/cars/ref-32-1969-alfa-romeo-1750-gtam-evocation/

 

Interesting result from a random old winter street pic off the internet....

Someone spent a crazy amount of money turning that into a racer. Going to LHD won't have been exactly cheap either. Wonder if 26 grand represented a loss?

[artdjones]

 

Newcastle, January 1979.

Ten year old Alfa dissolving by the minute.

But, amazingly, the 1969 Alfa Romeo 1750 is still around somewhere in 2018 according to DVLA.

 

Edit, . . . . after a bit of googling, check out this link.

https://www.historics.co.uk/buying/auctions/2016-06-11/cars/ref-32-1969-alfa-romeo-1750-gtam-evocation/

 

Interesting result from a random old winter street pic off the internet.

Maybe one day Captn 70s' Doloshite or Dan's Capri may turn up in an old pic.

The Alfa had moved a long way since being new.BO was a Cardiff letter combination.

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Bubble-arches on a Mk4 Zode.

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Taken from this ad from late 60s / very early 70s.