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Has anyone used an Oberg filter?
We can all laugh at the ignorance of those who cannot or will not understand our love of cars and other ancient machinery, but there is a danger...
And I thought this was a peculiarly English problem.
It is a re-creation of the Blitzen Benz raced by Cupid Hornsted and was, I believe, built by Ben Collings. The body was made by Roach...
There is a Cruiser in the Tank Museum in Bovington in Dorset here in the UK. Not strictly a Christie as such, but based on a Christie design. The...
A journalist visiting the plant where Speedsters were being built was amused to see these plaques, signed by Ab Jenkins certifying that that...
Kurtis, Thanks. This is great. It all helps build up the history of the car and you never know what leads it may produce. There is no such...
The man in the white hat on the left of the photos is Fernand Renault, greeting Louis on his arrival in Bordeaux with the news that their brother...
It was aptly named "the Race of Death" by the press. The 16hp car would have been a voiturette. Marcel's Type O was rated at (I think, as I do not...
Many thanks. Yes we do have this book and it has been most useful. We also spent a day with Renault Historique in Billancourt and Flins. They were...
The car was a Renault Type O. It had a side valve 4 cylinder engine of 6,300 cc with a 3-cored radiator each side. According to Charles Jarrot,...
T-Head, it would be churlish not to. Here are some of the chassis, gearbox and rear axle before strip-down and one of the crankcase with the crank...
It's amazing what you can do with a piece of wax........and there are the chassis, gearbox and axles too.
ratamahata, do you, or does anyone out there have any more photos of or information on the 1903 Paris-Madrid Renault Type Os which ended up in...
Short-Bristol
Supermarine S.5
Delage - this might be easier
I know it's not strictly a photograph, but it is an extract from the 1939 Delage brochure produced by University Motors, who described themselves...
Before and after....Otto von Hagengurg parting the grass at Cleveland Air Races in 1937 in his Bucker Jungmeister, clearly a touch too low, but he...
Green was not always considered unlucky. In 1901, Charles Jarrott was invited to race for Panhard & Levassor. On arriving at the factory in Paris...
I believe it has a Hall-Scott aero engine, as does the Schneider in two of the other photos.
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