Randomness....

[Father Ted]

 

 

 

[seth]

Excellent snaps. Family (and you?) I presume?

[Father Ted]

Yes - spent an hour up in dads loft clearing some stuff and looking for some bits & my old photos of the 1300 and the first Metro (which needless to say I cant find) I did find the original sales invoice for the metro and the original dealer tax disc holder and tax disc from 1986.

 

I also found a photo of a car my great grandfather built in 1920-something and a cracking photo of dad with the Bond Minicar works outing. The ezzy is Grandfather Teds, the rolled wreck was dads, and the young chap with the flairs is me in ( I think, but mum doesnt know and as the only way of asking dad is to nip round to Derek Akorahs..) 1977 at the Great Eccleston show.

[pompei]

Bloody hell, look at that Rover Hope no-one was injured?

[Albert Ross]

Sod the Rover, LOOK AT THE FUCKING SIMCA VAN!!!!!! (Unless it's a Dodge by then)Splumpf! Oh man, big wantage here.

[Father Ted]

I think it would be a Dodge as the flag in the background says Dodge - I cant make out who the blue one is for - Healds? Holdens? its blurred and back to front.

[Jonnyvalenta]

Love how the Sunbeam's got a tinted rear window and plain glass at the sides! That one will have an rear wiper fitted to the glass ,an option on the GL model. I can remember that kinda stuff no probs but procedures at work? No chance!

[AXrescuer]

Love how the Sunbeam's got a tinted rear window and plain glass at the sides! That one will have an rear wiper fitted to the glass ,an option on the GL model. I can remember that kinda stuff no probs but procedures at work? No chance!

That's ok. One simply has to remember the important things in life!

[Father Ted]

MoAr....

 

 

 

 

[michiel]

Great photos - what's the one under the Metro?

[Father Ted]

Home made special made by Great-GrandFather Ted. Apparently it had the ability to select all 3 gears in both forwards or reverse. Many bits of motorbikes were used in its construction - If you look carefully you will see the chain drive.Last known location was in the hands of a bus company in Lincoln. There are many photos of the Bedford HA van with windows in the back and also GrandFather Teds traction engine - but all on 35mm Colorama Slides.

[barrett]

I love the Bond one.... ''The Bond Minicar Works''.....does it?

[Father Ted]

Works outing to Blackpool in 1951. Im reminded of Carry on at Your Convenience! Dad is to the back on the right. He test drove a van variant from Preston to Portsmouth and back at a top speed of 30 MPH with the 172cc engine! Took him a week!!!I tried typing the reg of the homebrew into the DVLA - but computer says no. So if anyone knows where WRN 6 is let me know.

[Father Ted]

Dealer tax disc

 

 

Army shite.

 

 

?Unkbown shite!

 

 

My first shite!

[seth]

Home made special made by Great-GrandFather Ted. Apparently it had the ability to select all 3 gears in both forwards or reverse. Many bits of motorbikes were used in its construction - If you look carefully you will see the chain drive.

Fantastic! You've got proper automotive blood in you. I bet that Bond Portsmouth run was amazing! Speed limit for commercials would have been 30 then anyway? Would even a small commercial have had to stick to that in any case?

[Father Ted]

Im hoping there are some drawings in the loft for the car, Im sure dad said there were. So far the only tech drawings I can find seem to relate to the TSR2 (which dad also worked on after he left Sharps') - certainly they were with some bumf on the TSR2. The last major engineering project he worked on was the Eurofighter ( or EAP as it was known as then).Shame I have the technical nouse of a concussed bumblebee and took after my mother in being a nurse

[michiel]

Home made special made by Great-GrandFather Ted. Apparently it had the ability to select all 3 gears in both forwards or reverse. Many bits of motorbikes were used in its construction - If you look carefully you will see the chain drive.

Cheers! Looks and sounds like an interesting sp'l!

[Father Ted]

More from the family archive - Great Grandfathers Sunday Motor....

 

Great Grandfather had a factory with his brother...

 

Great Great Grandfather Ebenezer had a fine line in 'tashes.

[warren t claim]

That last picture should be your next avatar!

[Father Ted]

Quite scarily (sans Tash) I look rather like him.

[warren t claim]

He looks like an advert for a Victorian price comparison service.

[Parky]

Did you say some technical drawings for the TSR2? Jeez FT, they are gonna be worth something as the UK Government kindly insisted all plans and tooling were destroyed when they canned the project.Usual conspiracies abound but i think the americans werent happy we had developed something better than they had and I suspect we still owed them for WW2 at the time......say no more.Read up on it, its quite interesting. Even Wikipedia has the story largely correct!

[Minimad5]

Wow great thread !I bet you are proud to be a "Father Ted" !Thanks for sharing your pictures and stories with us all

[Father Ted]

Did you say some technical drawings for the TSR2? Jeez FT, they are gonna be worth something as the UK Government kindly insisted all plans and tooling were destroyed when they canned the project.

Nothing exciting, just stuff he drew himself - I thought it was the TSR2 as there was a book on it with it, but closer inspection it seems to be the Lightning.Bumhats - all thoughts of ebay millions shattered!

[Father Ted]

 

More from the archives. I think the bloke with the greasy hair sat in the Bond is Lawrie himself.

[whitevanman]

Im hoping there are some drawings in the loft for the car, Im sure dad said there were. So far the only tech drawings I can find seem to relate to the TSR2 (which dad also worked on after he left Sharps') - certainly they were with some bumf on the TSR2. The last major engineering project he worked on was the Eurofighter ( or EAP as it was known as then).

Shame I have the technical nouse of a concussed bumblebee and took after my mother in being a nurse

PLEASE...If you want rid of the stuff on the TSR2 please let me offer it a new home, whatever the terms are

[Father Ted]

 

PLEASE...If you want rid of the stuff on the TSR2 please let me offer it a new home, whatever the terms are

There is a copy of "Murder of the TSR2" in hardback which I can dig out next time Im down there. Otherwise nothing else on the TSR2. Sorry.