Eye-catching black and whites

[lesapandre]

K7 Bluebird - Lake Eyre Australia - in 1964 - before taking the Land Speed Record to 403mph. Gas turbine powering all 4-wheels.

[martc]

91-year-old Jean Grey remembers living on the site in the 1930s when her father was Custodian of the Stones. 'Dad was the Custodian of the Stones. He cut the grass and maintained the area round the huge monoliths and made sure no one damaged them...'. Above are the Custodians houses and allsorts of street furniture.

[JimH]

12 hours ago, lesapandre said:

K7 Bluebird - Lake Eyre Australia - in 1964 - before taking the Land Speed Record to 403mph. Gas turbine powering all 4-wheels.

Easily the most beautiful LSR car ever. People bitched and moaned about Campbell over-promising and under-delivering but given that he did 403 in '64 and the wheel driven record is about 55mph faster 57 years later I'm not entirely sure the criticism was valid. 

[lesapandre]

Armchair critics. Campbell is one of a select number of people who have significantly pushed at the envelope of human experience - an extrordinary man. The speed was over 400mph - but the other amazing statistics are that at that speed the car was covering a mile at 8.9 seconds and that the braking distance for Bluebird was then 6 miles - there was no engine braking effect from the gas turbine itself so the car was effectively coasting. Campbell thus had about  a minute + to bring the vehicle to a halt.

These runs were also mostly privately financed so were on a tight budget in difficult and remote terrain.

[JimH]

Very few of these projects were awash with cash. Perhaps that is what makes them so interesting. 

[lesapandre]

On 10/12/2021 at 4:05 PM, Remspoor said:

Which New Town is that?

[lesapandre]

19 hours ago, martc said:

Belfast, 1986, set on fire during a protest.

"I told you not to fiddle with the cigarette lighter"

[lesapandre]

8 hours ago, martc said:

91-year-old Jean Grey remembers living on the site in the 1930s when her father was Custodian of the Stones. 'Dad was the Custodian of the Stones. He cut the grass and maintained the area round the huge monoliths and made sure no one damaged them...'. Above are the Custodians houses and allsorts of street furniture.

Today - clutter removed but A303 considerably wider.

[Remspoor]

2 hours ago, lesapandre said:

Which New Town is that?

Reading, Berkshire.

[Remspoor]

[JeeExEll]

[martc]

'Technical Aesthetics' soviet magazine,1978. So what is Lenin's grandson and Harry H Corbett designing here?

[martc]

Noo Yoik City. USA. 1998. ⁠⁠

[martc]

The illustration to the left (soz not B&W, live with it).

[Remspoor]

[Dyslexic Viking]

[Tadhg Tiogar]

6 hours ago, martc said:

The illustration to the left (soz not B&W, live with it).

That must be like trying to ride a belt sander.

[Asimo]

[Dyslexic Viking]

Logging truck that went through the ice in the mid 1960s.

[georgeinabz]

A Class 37 approaches Darlington yard with a selection of Ford cars. Capri, Granada, Escorts & Fiestas.

An absolute fortune there …. The ford scene tax


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[Tadhg Tiogar]

43 minutes ago, Asimo said:

Nope, couldn't identify the diesel shunter at all. Doesn't look like any of classes 01 to 09.

[Asimo]

20 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Nope, couldn't identify the diesel shunter at all. Doesn't look like any of classes 01 to 09.

Ooops, should have included the link:-
https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/122818-street-running-in-the-uk/page/8/

[JeeExEll]

How the fuck did that happen?

[martc]

23 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Nope, couldn't identify the diesel shunter at all. Doesn't look like any of classes 01 to 09.

I think it's one of these -

A Ruston Class 165, some details here https://yourmodelrailway.net/view_topic.php?id=11721&forum_id=148 including a close up of the area around the air tank where the crunch happened -

 

 

[busmansholiday]

21 hours ago, JeeExEll said:

How the fuck did that happen?

Trust me, when it comes to car drivers and industrial locomotives, the car drivers seem to think the loco will stop, give way, or move out of their way, especially at shift change time.

[LightBulbFun]

[NorfolkNWeigh]

On 10/14/2021 at 7:28 PM, martc said:

A Class 37 approaches Darlington yard with a selection of Ford cars. Capri, Granada, Escorts & Fiestas.

I remember a news story around this time (82/84) about scrotes getting on these Ford trains and helping themselves to radios etc whilst they were travelling up the country. I think someone fell off and was killed, also the Police would hide in the cars to catch them. 

[Remspoor]

[busmansholiday]

3 hours ago, Remspoor said:

Ahh, the good old days, when plod could wade in and sort out the knob heads without fear of some politically correct, up their own arse minority, thinking they're more entitled than normal people, whining like twats and going to court because "their human rights" have.been abused.

Rant over...

[Remspoor]

1 hour ago, busmansholiday said:

Ahh, the good old days, when plod could wade in and sort out the knob heads without fear of some politically correct, up their own arse minority, thinking they're more entitled than normal people, whining like twats and going to court because "their human rights" have.been abused.

Rant over...

And without riot gear.