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« Reply #330 on: May 13, 2013, 07:02:48 AM » |
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I really enjoyed the day and it was nice to meet new people. Somehow I managed to get badly sunburnt on my face and head......how did that happen, I don't remember seeing the sun...  |
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« Reply #331 on: May 13, 2013, 07:14:52 AM » |
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Hiya. I've got a really sunburnt nose & ears! I'm not a fan of blazing sunshine anyway, (I go to Scotland for my holidays. Sitting on a hot beach would be my idea of hell). For me, the weather was just about right & if the rain had held off for another hour it would've been perfect. It'd stopped by the time we'd packed up.
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I had a chat to Kalvin as I was wandering around. The Basingstoke show's pre-book only -you can't just enter on the day cos they have limited space, (around 900 vehicles every year). He didn't know what he'd have on the road or what the weather would be like, so didn't pre-book, but came along anyway. Sorry I didn't chat to you longer -lots of people to talk to! Let's get your trike there next year.
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Brock & I watched the blue finned coach leave at the end of the day. He thought the fin was something to do with air conditioning & was a feature of the coach building company. Can't remember the vehicle manufacturer, but I think it may have said "Continental" on the grille. It was my favourite of the day.
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« Reply #332 on: May 13, 2013, 12:31:29 PM » |
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Andy. Thanks for organising another lovely day, pity about the rain later though. It was nice to meet & catch up with everyone. Had to leave a little early to enable Emily to catch ferry back to Isle of Wight. Show plaques......forgot all about those, but would be nice to have another one to put on workshop wall  Hope everyone arrived home OK. Regards Pete, Chrissie & Emily |
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« Reply #333 on: May 13, 2013, 12:40:30 PM » |
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that bus is actually a ,continental bodied leyland beaver  |
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« Reply #334 on: May 13, 2013, 05:15:08 PM » |
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It was my favourite of the day.
Mine too |
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« Reply #335 on: May 13, 2013, 06:06:09 PM » |
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sorry was late getting there but was realy good to meet peeps and say hello , next year trike will be ready and ill be there from the off  great pics andy |
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« Reply #336 on: May 13, 2013, 06:45:02 PM » |
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sorry was late getting there but was realy good to meet peeps and say hello , next year trike will be ready and ill be there from the off great pics andy goose,, sorry i didnt make it after all as i wanted to settle up with you as i still owe you for some stuff dont i, ? |
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« Reply #337 on: May 13, 2013, 07:11:28 PM » |
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Taken from Wikipedia & emailed to me by Brock:
The 1930s
There were huge numbers of small to medium sized professional coachbuilders in existence around Britain as Thomas Harrington & Sons Ltd moved into its new Hove factory. The management of Harringtons decided that two things were necessary to stand them in good stead in this crowded market. The first was building good relationships with blue-chip customers, and the second was to produce designs with a distinctive Harrington 'look'.
Instances of the first were their long-term supply to high–class coach firms in the private and large company sectors. Such private customers included Grey-Green of Stamford Hill, London, Charlies Cars of Bournemouth and Silver Star of Porton Down. The large firms included the Tilling Group's North Western Road Car Company of Stockport and BET-group member Devon General of Exeter, but perhaps the most enduring relationship of all was as supplier to the local BET coaching powerhouse Southdown Motor Services.
The styling distinctiveness was a major selling point. A Harrington body had a clear 'look' at a time when many coachbuilders, Duple especially, would oblige customers and produce an astounding variety of outlines from the conservative to the totally bizarre, sometimes building to order straight copies of another coachbuilder's style.
By the mid-1930s the Harrington 'look' included a half cab with no canopy over the engine and a stepped window line, all arranged in a distinctive flowing series of curves. By the end of the decade when streamlining was the vogue Harrington had devised and patented a new feature called the 'dorsal fin'. This appurtenance looked like a truncated aircraft tail and when applied to the rear of the vehicle allowed a rakishly curved rear-dome outline without compromising passenger access to the rear bench seat and was designed to act as an air-extractor as the vehicle moved, stale air exited the coach saloon due to the suction effect of the low pressure areas created behind the fin.
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« Reply #338 on: May 13, 2013, 07:16:32 PM » |
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I nipped over to Cliddesden village, just outside Basingstoke, this morning & saw Tom Mansbridge, one of the show organisers & proprieter of Cliddesden Garage. He gave me 2 dozen show plaques. They're lazer printed aluminium, about 3" x 2". No idea what they'll cost to post, but if you displayed a vehicle at the show & would like one, PM me your address & I'll send 'em out.
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« Reply #339 on: May 13, 2013, 07:19:31 PM » |
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While I was there Tom showed me round some of his lorry collection. I know nothing about this kind of stuff, but I do love vintage lorries. He owns the "Blue Peter" tyre depot lorry, often seen at local shows, (I photographed it at last week's Popham airfield meet).
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« Reply #340 on: May 13, 2013, 07:31:20 PM » |
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A 1958 Thornycroft SwiftSure tanker.
Tom bought this in an auction in Wales for 250 quid, bidding against a family of pikeys who wanted it for the scrap metal value.
The chassis was beyond repair. but then he bought a second one in the Midlands for £200!
I was suprised to find the cab's fibreglass. Apparently Thornycrofts were the first lorry manufacturer to use 'glass cabs. They were also the first to fit air brakes to lorries, the first to fit disc brakes to lorries etc. Leaders in their field for decades. There were 1,500 Thorny lorries involved in the first world war. At their peak, they employed 3,000 people. The factory was 2 minutes away from the house I'm now lodging in & Tom recalled that when the whistle blew at the end of a shift, the road outside instantly became a seething mass of workers, all heading home.
I asked how he cleaned the inside of the tank, (it's split into 4 compartments). I was expecting him to say it was shotblasted or steam cleaned -"I lowered my grandson in there with a scraper". That's what kids are for!
An interesting conversation.
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« Reply #341 on: May 13, 2013, 07:42:55 PM » |
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Nice guy Tom. spent a while talking to him while the trike was MOT'd. My mother worked at Thornycroft just after the war and her brother and father both worked at Blue Peter. Original advertising sign. Usually on my garage wall |
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« Reply #342 on: May 13, 2013, 07:54:57 PM » |
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That's cool!
Outsiders still tend to think of Basingstoke as just ugly 60s concrete architecture, (nearly all long gone now). It's got some fascinating social history though.
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« Reply #343 on: May 14, 2013, 01:50:06 PM » |
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« Reply #344 on: May 14, 2013, 01:51:06 PM » |
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