Eye-catching black and whites

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Bedhampton, 1988

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[Asimo]

The upside down Escort:  Bald-tyre induced understeer?

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4 hours ago, Asimo said:

I bet it made no measurable difference at all!

Like every other body-kit, just about image.  Looking faster is actually much easier to sell than being faster.

Not so, at 80mph in a flat calm an LNER A4 saved around 100 hp over the unstreamlined equivalent in overcoming air resistance. The LMS locos would have been better again, as they had a genuine aerodynamic form, which the A4s didn't.

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29 minutes ago, uk_senator said:

BL, as good at strapping down vehicles as they were at assembling them.

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Just now, artdjones said:

BL, as good at strapping down vehicles as they were at assembling them.

Its one way to access your trunion nipples..

[D.E]

1 hour ago, Asimo said:

The upside down Escort:  Bald-tyre induced understeer?

 

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Teenager Mark Whitefield was driving his Ford Escort along Barncroft Way when it was believed he swerved to avoid another vehicle. Although the roof of the car was crushed and the Escort was a write-off, Mark clambered out of the wreckage with no more than a cut hand.

Swerved, and then lost control due to his worn tyres probably?

[sheffcortinacentre]

23 hours ago, lesapandre said:

23 of October to be precise. Would have taken a little for the first new cars to percolate out - and given no leaves on the trees - I'd guess winter 1970.

Dealer poster really awkward to photograph on my narrow stairs.

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Meanwhile in B&W

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London, 1947

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[captain_70s]

8 hours ago, uk_senator said:

A practice exercise for the police, in case of an accident in the new Clyde Tunnel in Glasgow.

That's the Lord Provost's Austin Princess behind the Ford.

[D.E]

England, circa 1925. Exact location unknown.

[Richard_FM]

8 hours ago, uk_senator said:

I don't remember that episode of Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)!

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On 15/03/2025 at 11:11, Metal Guru said:

I remember the streamlined trains of the 30s. As I understand it, they bolted the streamline body onto the existing train, and the increased weight, more than cancelled out any increase in speed due to aerodynamics . Or is that an urban myth?

Depends if you start from scratch with streamlining in mind. This was the Henschel Wegmann Zug. Entered service in 1935. It was built as a whole train, coaches and all. It was also designed to run at the same speed in both directions. It is a large tank engine - it carries its water and coal on board, not in a separate tender - so on arrival it can quite easily run round its train without having to go off to a turntable to be turned. It had a 100mph cruising speed. 

The coaches had much closer couplings than normal and they had both underskirts and smoothed off ends. I'm struggling to find actual photos so I'm having to resort to models. 

It was designed to show that steam could compete with the modern high speed diesel railcars that were already running in Germany by this time. Like this. 

After the war 61 002 (they only built two locos) found itself in the east when everything was divvyed up between the two new countries. The east Germans rebuilt it in to this. 

It bears absolutely no resemblance to how it was but is equally striking I think. Obviously only the frame was kept, even the wheel arrangement has changed, and it has gained a tender. It still survives like this today. This reached 109mph in what is really not a streamlined design. 

[sheffcortinacentre]

1 hour ago, D.E said:

Taxed til 01/01/87

[lesapandre]

Bugatti Railcar.

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20 hours ago, Richard_FM said:

I don't remember that episode of Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)!

Wrong Vauxhall Gromit.

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Portree, 1934

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16 minutes ago, D.E said:

Portree, 19:34

Portree would not have been much different by quarter past eight ...

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(BTW It is the Kylerhea to Glenelg ferry , not Portree )

https://www.google.com/maps/@57.2291689,-5.6551742,3a,75y,263.24h,80.35t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sx61ojkl5FDlAqgqG2whLBA!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D9.651938443995775%26panoid%3Dx61ojkl5FDlAqgqG2whLBA%26yaw%3D263.2367266061153!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDMxMi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

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MLOR I think you are right there .

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1 hour ago, Momentary Lapse Of Reason said:

Portree would not have been much different by quarter past eight ...

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(BTW It is the Kylerhea to Glenelg ferry , not Portree )

https://www.google.com/maps/@57.2291689,-5.6551742,3a,75y,263.24h,80.35t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sx61ojkl5FDlAqgqG2whLBA!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D9.651938443995775%26panoid%3Dx61ojkl5FDlAqgqG2whLBA%26yaw%3D263.2367266061153!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDMxMi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

Thanks, seems a match! I wish we had spectacular landscapes like that here...

I just copied the description. Tbh, I am uncertain if the year is correct too. The dark coloured car is, I think, a Ford Ten, but the car in front looks like a Hillman Minx which was first introduced in 1936.

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https://skyeferry.co.uk/

 

 

 

 

 

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1 minute ago, D.E said:

Hillman Minx which was first introduced in 1936.

Hillman Minx was first introduced 1st October 1931