Past Present and in Between in Pictures (Part 1)

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Star down under.:

essexpete:

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XK150, possibly one of Jaguar’s prettiest?

I wouldn’t knock it back, but I’ve always rather fancied a 120.

I’d prefer a C type but with a 150S 3.8 engine and triple carbs spec.
Would prefer a 3.8, or better 420, S type saloon to both.

[dennis_javelin]

I assume that’s Donald Malcolm as a young boy in the mid 1930’s.

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Dennis you are correct, Buzzer

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[waggerwagger888]

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[oiltreader]

Thanks to gazsa401, Buzzer and WaggerWagger888 for the photos
Oily.
French varietycourtesy of Dave Fawcett.

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[mushroomman]

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Looks like she’s giving the Jag a ticket.

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Star down under.:
Looks like she’s giving the Jag a ticket.

Nah, she’s just off to the police canteen, four bacon butties was it Serge.

[froggy55]

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1934 AJS V4, NEVER KNEW THEY DID ONE

Neither me, but here’s a little more about it:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJS_V4

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Thanks for the info F55, Sammy Millers museum is not too far from where I live and my best man volunteers there as a guide nowadays, Buzzer

[toshboy]

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Spardo:
You trying to teach us your personal language again Eddie? How about infinitessimally, would that serve perhaps? I had a Volvo Bubble that had excellent electric wipers to which that adverb could be justly applied. Wish I had it in my car now.

Thanks to MrSteel for the mention of the Atki wipers. I preferred the electric ones myself but if my memory serves the best thing about the air ones was that there was a little lever which allowed you to operate it (not the passenger one obviously) by hand as required in light rain for instance. I had a 1939 Packard 8 car and they were wild, the faster you went the slower they wiped, and no manual control, bizarre.

@Gazsa, more great pictures but is the scale of the Mk 2 correct, surely they weren’t that much lower than the SedAks, were they? I am prepared to stand corrected though. BTW, remind me which cafe that is.

@SDU, Now you know that can’t have been me, As far as Buntine was concerned, sleepers did not exist in my day. The first one I saw was a cabover Mack which a former Buntine driver, then OD, proudly drove into the depot for a visit. We all gathered round it in awe. I think his name was Gary.
I wonder how they pulled that out, brute force with several units or body trucks as we did once with Kevin’s last trailer. Noel’s double drive pulling at the front with George’s double drive body truck attached to the trailer chassis dragging it upright. Or did they unload it? In Kevin’s case most of the cows had unloaded themselves through the top.

Mud, you say David?

For you fellows who’ve never had the opportunity to enjoy a bit of “blacksoil”, after a bit of precipitation, the two prime movers in the first picture are connected with a stiff bar. Every truck carried an eight foot length of heavy, square hollow section, with a ringfeeder eye welded to each end. Multiple road trains could be hooked together, pushing and pulling each other. Sometimes it was only successful at getting further into the mire.

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Buzzer:
Thanks for the info F55, Sammy Millers museum is not too far from where I live and my best man volunteers there as a guide nowadays, Buzzer

That Louisville Ford looks old to me, and thus a bit incongruous (to my old eyes) pulling a B-Double.

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Spardo:

Buzzer:
Thanks for the info F55, Sammy Millers museum is not too far from where I live and my best man volunteers there as a guide nowadays, Buzzer

That Louisville Ford looks old to me, and thus a bit incongruous (to my old eyes) pulling a B-Double.

I thought the same. I reckon it’s just a yard truck. It looks like an 8000, not even a 9000, so only has a 3208. The GCM would be well under 45 tonne, let alone the 80 tonne required for a B double.