What's this?

[ChinaTom]

As I virtually trawl the LDC's for potential EBA suppliers, I find the odd intrepid tourist has inadvertantly snapped the side of a factory that I can count condenser pots to determine the throughput model and likely rehabilitated size - Jesus, I'm boring myself here - and this Angolan factory boiling house has this parked outside to distract me.

 

Fiat? Alfa?

 

[trigger]

Fiat 125p?

 

[AnthonyG]

Some regional variant of Fiat 124, I'd say. Could be a later Seat 124 or Premier 118NE (Indian 124).

[ChinaTom]

I've been trawling through google images for 124, 5 and 8; Seat variations and even Ladas (Angola had a lot to do with Cuba around the time this place was built, they had a lot to do with Russia).

 

Maybe it's the regular oblong style reg plate that's confusing me. Most I have seen are square.

[AnthonyG]

So have I! - the later Seat 124s - from the mid 1970s on - have a front end that looks like the mirror image of the back end, but the few shots of that model's rear (!) show them with wraparound rear lights a bit like an Itals.

[Cavcraft]

Unless the rear numberplate is longer than usual it seems the rear panel is too short to be like 125P that Trigger has pictured. Looks slightly NSU or Renault-ish to me but I'm chod at this sort of thing.

[Six-cylinder]

Hard one!

 

[Alexg]

I'd go with the Lada Riva

[chaseracer]

I'd go with the Lada Riva

Yup.

[Guest Leonard Hatred]

The factory looks derelict, I'd be right in there.

[eddyramrod]

I don't think it's a Riva. On the enlarged pic the contours are not square enough. I'm more inclined to think Toyota Corona, mid to late 60s.

[ChinaTom]

The factory looks derelict, I'd be right in there.

 

This is provincial Angola - way too much steel and corrugated iron roofing material present to be derelict. Dormant is a better term - still occupied by millers and a skeleton crew of staff patiently waiting for someone to start growing cane again.

 

 

We could get that lot going without too much trouble. As a general guide, if the s/s (very saleble 304L) condenser pots and leg lines are still there, then the interior p&e is more than likely to be there too.

 

 

Here's the site in 2010 from space.

 

Feel free to check it out if you're passing...

[lovejoy]

Hey, me ol' China, what's up ? Very interesting pics, suddenly Angola pops up in TWO threads !!

Have you had a look from space at what's left of the derelict sugar factory here ?? used to be quite a few trains lying on their sides in the thornbushes outside !

[ChinaTom]

Them's the cane wagons. I think they will be road going - can't see any evidence of small guage tracks yet.

 

[lovejoy]

I guess that's "Sugarshite" then ...

[ChinaTom]

Sorry LJ, just re-read your post - I don't think they had small guage tracks on Barbados. Which site do you mean? Haymans, Bulkeley, Foursquare or Carrington? St Andrews and Port Vale SHOULD still be crushing. All sites look derelict between crushing seasons though.

[flat4alfa]

Not a Carina. Thought it Corona but no

 

1968

 

1970 arselift

[lovejoy]

not Barbados, but Santa Maria de la Antigua !