Eye-catching shitely-arty-farty expanded and annotated, engineering and flat-pak

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Renault 12

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going through these pics, makes you realise how much skill there was before computers...

Just imagine designing the Saturn 5..the SR-71 and Concord all before computers... would love to see some of those engineering pics!!!

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[JeeExEll]

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[Yoss]

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[Yoss]

I have this upstairs somewhere in full colour but I can't find it.

Shows the full Heath Robinsonness of the Triumph 1300. When I find it, I'll put it here. Tis a thing of loveliness.

[Yoss]

Here's some stuff I pulled out of a skip a few years ago. It was on my delivery and the thing that first caught my eye was an elderly Britool catalogue. This encouraged me to delve deeper and I couldn't believe what I found. The old lady who lived there came out when she saw me and encouraged me to take whatever I wanted as I explained my fondness for old commercial vehicles. You've seen those big red trolleys that postmen use? I managed to half fill mine with these books. They belonged to her late husband but she had no idea what to do with them.

 

A few weeks later she beckoned me in and asked me if this was any use pointing to a nearly full five gallon drum of anti freeze! Always got a good tip at Christmas too.

 

Where to start? A little one first. Napier turbo blowers.

 

A couple of Paxman diesel books.

 

But this is a fabulous Mirlees manual.

 

This also has a Napier Turbo sub section which even has these glossy colour three page pull outs.

And this one shows a step by step strip down and reassembly.

I reckon if you framed these you could sell them for three figures in certain shops in Islington.

 

This was a much smaller book but when I saw the immortal words English Electric my heart nearly stopped.

This one's a bit wordy, not many great diagrams but the EE V16 diesel engine played a great part in my youth.

[Yoss]

But these deserve there own post.

Three manuals for the Leyland O680 from 1947. How can you throw these away? As the owner of an O600 from 1964 you can see how I could barely believe what I had found.

 

 

One volume has gearboxes in and include a couple of colour pages which must have cost in 1947.

[Asimo]

Wonderful, serendipitous finds there.

[JeeExEll]

^ Treasure find.

[Yoss]

Yes indeed, it's one of those things I don't expect to happen again. Mrs Yoss occasionally asks what I'm going to do with them. Nothing, I don't need to do anything with them except take them out and look at them occasionally. Fortunately they live in a part of the library* where she doesn't notice them too often.

 

*spare room. I like to call it the library as it has bookshelves in it and I have ideas above my station.

[Yoss]

This is neat.

 

It's a drawing of this.

 

It's a Musterkrempel obviously.

[martc]

It's a carding machine - for straightening fibres (eg wool).

[Yoss]

Yes, pretty much, it was for making felt. Do you speak German, did you google it or are you an expert on industrial textile machinery?

[martc]

Yes, pretty much, it was for making felt. Do you speak German, did you google it or are you an expert on industrial textile machinery?

 

Some of the above, I sort of used my powers of deduction and reasoning...

 

I spotted the fluff on the rollers and the fact that it looked like the fibres where fed through it, which suggested something to do with textiles. I then google translated the German which gave the following semi-gibberish 'sample card to arrange and parallelise the fibres' (spelling corrected) and the pfennig dropped - it's a carding machine I thought, a quick image search confirmed my theory. Which is now recorded for ever on t'interweb (30 today).

 

PS The only thing I definitely knew is that straightening fibres is called 'carding' in the textiles trade.

[Yoss]

Well done, you could have just asked!

[martc]

But where's the fun in that?

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Just had too