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On 07/06/2017 at 9:03 AM, Cliff Ton said:
Adding a bit to this pic. On the right hand edge of the photo is a tall white building, just across the side street from the Dragonet, which was a motor bike showroom. This side of the road where the bus is was a side street with a car showroom on the right corner and Dunham hotel/castle pub on the left corner. Across Canal st off pic to the right was the excellent highly recommended Midland cafe who did fantastic breakfasts.
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Maybe, Brew, but 1933 models had a straight bumper and a crank access below the grille. The later model had the grille incorporating the crank hole. Perhaps the bumper was raised as a cosmetic exercise later thus needing a dip. So your explanation is looking good. A subjective look at the various year versions seems to show a bigger gap between the front mudguard and the bumper on the older one compared with the later one.
Edit. It may have been cheaper for ford to have put a keyhole in the bumper!
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I like the flowing lines of the Ford. The earlier models had a short radiator and straight front bumper whereas later models had a deeper radiator grille with a dip in the bumper to show it off.
Hillman, Austin, Standard. How to tell all these cars apart. That was my i-spy type pastime in the 40s/50s as Dad and I walked from Bobbers Mill to Wollaton park and back via Western/Middleton boulevards on Sunday mornings.
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There was a cafe, late 50s on the corner of Sherwood st and Burton st, on the Evng Post block. Inside, the walls were covered in photos of artistes who had appeared at the theatres across the road. Robin Hood Cafe I think.
At the bottom of Derby road opposite North Circus st was a cafe called L'auto.
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The old hp figures do seem low. Reason is in 1910 for tax reasons the Gvmnt invited the RAC to calculate the power of engines based on engine piston crown area. Over the years of development actual engine power, bhp far outstripped the RAC nominal estimates in some cases by as much as 10 times. Sometimes power was quoted in two parts, e.g. 16/80. = RAC/actual. This from Wikipedia.
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Another car with fluid flywheel and thus preselecter gearbox in those days. The Daimlers also had that type of transmission well into the 50s.
It wasn't possible to crash the gears but sometimes the pedal kicked back and you had to start again from neutral. Well the one I drove did.
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It's been mentioned I know but just another look.
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I can only remember seeing black Austin Rubys. Cheap and cheerful, it looks quite elegant in this picture, next to a picture of Christchurch in Oxford.
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The AC sounds like some special motor for a production road car. 2ltr 6 cylinder, 90 mph. From a contemporary write up online the motoring journalists managed 85 mph lapping Brooklands in the 30s in one of these. Nice looking car.
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I'll miss these pictures. These artists, to me, had a good detail appreciation of things mechanical. And the nostalgic bit was very satisfying.
Thanks for the input, Chulla.
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About 1973 my wife and I had a 2 week car-tour holiday in the Western Highlands. At our stopover in Fort William we had dinner in McTavish's Kitchen. After we started eating, a Piper started slowly walking up and down between the tables playing his pipes. It was an interesting experience, but to me not a quiet romantic setting.
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Happy and peaceful new year all.
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About half a millimetre here in ah street. Locked the doors and stayed in.
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The MGA, following on from the TF was as big an attention grabber as the XK120 in my view.
The rail track in this picture is, if you will, the clear dividing line between nature's eternal sacred and the daily mundane of living.
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It's the same with the Triumph Dolomite, Cliff Ton.
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I was too young to appreciate the sensation caused at the1948 motor show by the xk120 but looking at the historic press pictures I think all the talk of the 120 overshadowed the equally deserving, classic designed Jaguar mk V saloon. From an aesthetic viewpoint I would put them equal for appeal. Two different markets, I know. The 2 cars shared most of the mechanicals.
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On 25/12/2017 at 8:31 AM, Chulla said:
. The head-on car is a Morris 8 Tourer, as seen in card 3, and the lorry looks like a Commer.
Chairman, I propose that:
1/ the green car be identified as a 1954 Singer Roadster.
2/ the blue lorry be identified as a Fordson Thames (1947-1957)
I agree that they are beautiful to look at and evocative for some my age.
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I started regularly meeting a girl in the 49 coffee bar. Her mother met us in there one afternoon and invited me to their house just off Arkwright st. When we were nearly there the conversation turned to a day when the mother had argued with the father and stabbed him with a pair scissors.
The girl was a nice lass really, affable, cheeky, confident but given to biting when in a clinch. Biting and stabbing not being my fetish I moved on.
Another regular date invited me to her house when her mother was out at bingo, her father came home late from work spitting nails, but not at me: he worked at a pit and someone had managed to drop 400 yards of heavy cable down a shaft and they'd spent all day recovering it. During the evening the girl showed me a box containing a jewellery case. She said it was from her boyfriend who was in the forces stationed in Hong Kong. Later as she stood in front of the mirror brushing her hair I noticed a definite bulge on her abdomen, just below the skirt belt and it definitely was nothing to do with me! Bye.
Another was (dare I speak the name) an ex Manning girl. We regularly went to the cinemas and I once went on holiday with her and her parents. She wasn't all that academically brill but I was a stop gap, she was ambitious, she was going to be a high flier and going places. And she soon did when I was discarded for someone older, brighter with a posh accent and much richer.
It was then I called a moratorium on dating girls and fell in love with motorbikes and cars.
A few years later, out of the blue when I wasn't looking, this beautiful, intelligent and practical young woman just dropped into my life. That was nearly 50 years ago and we're still together. I think this one's a keeper. She's from Aspleh.
I feel fortunate and blessed in this aspect of life.
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7 hours ago, Chulla said:
Ben card 16. Back to an earlier period now. Don't know what the car is - early Singer?, but the vehicle behind it is one horsepower. Note that the tricycle has an engine powering the front wheel - take note Rog. Question: Did railway locomotives in the early part of the century have that type of firebox (Belpaire?) The advertising sign is for Hercules cycles.
The loco in the painting looks to me like GWR Badminton class 3292-3311, introduced C1897.
Edit. Date as per MI's post.
And a model of same
A very relaxed scene and even has the old bobby who's not bristling with weapons.
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Haulin' Freight.
The sequel to Light My Fire.
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There may be some artistic licence in the picture but after a search, my guess is the bike is a matchless model 35/CS
And at £57 not cheap. 1935
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Thinking all the best for you.
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Into guitars? Yes since 1959. I've had about 9 and I've still got 4 at home. I can strum Michael Row The Boat Ashore and a few similar folk songs. I never got the Hendrix, Clapton, Les Paul thing. I can do a good Hank Marvin's Apache on my 1999 CIJ Strat 62. Some take to guitar playing like a duck to water but I can't seem to get it. (But I'm not giving up yet).
I'm now learning to do finger pick, so that's my latest challenge using an acoustic Yamaha apx500iii. Actions a bit high for me but that's all I'm paying for a guitar from now.
I used to buy guitar and guitar player magazines every month but as Chulla points out (and loppy in another thread) you can get sidetracked with gizmos and end up chasing your tail. It's all about the music imo.
Leo Fender's Strat got it right in the 50s, as did Gibson and nothing's really changed. Fender later tried the Jazzmaster as an update but it only really caught a niche surfing market and quite recently it enjoyed a renaissance. For instance, Elvis Costello had one.
In the early 50s Fender successfully made the simple mass producable good sounding, futuristic looking product (with a bolt on neck, no angled head, no scarf joint). Gibson successfully went for updating the traditional jazz archtop style, and produced a modern, loud, feedback-resistant instrument. The goldtop being the icon.
I can't offer much about acoustics though, all the tone and audio "feel" is there in the woodwork. I think a guitar has to be played for an hour before one gets the feel and whether that is "the one I want".
I think that if you buy a guitar and it completely satisfies you in every aspect for all time, you're lucky. Your taste, appreciation, ability and understanding evolves over time.
All that from a bloke who can hardly play!.
You could end up with the dreaded GAS. That's Guitar Acquisition Syndrome.
Only my opinions of course.
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Happy birthday KJ
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Various old shops, now gone.
in Nottingham City Centre
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Can't remember the Three Horse Shoes but can recall Albert Hotel which sold Youngers Tartan bitter.