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Yes it did, Vitesse then, thanks.

#1698 From the left is an Austin K4 lorry, well worn by the looks of it. This model was known as “the Birmingham Bedford” due to its close resemblance to the O series from Luton. The 4 litre engine used in the Austin Sheerline and Princess cars came from the basic design of this commercial...

Well, yes, that’s true, those Cortinas, Vivas and Anglias are all approaching 60 and weren’t too durable to start with. You won’t even find them in scrapyards, because there aren’t any of those now due to ecological laws, and probably that is a good thing. However, it would have been nice to see...

A lot of ordinary cars of late, but I think #1674 needs comment. It’s a Triumph but is it a Vitesse, or a Herald painted up to look like one? I think it’s an imposter.

A Burton’s story, by your leave. When I was in the Lower Sixth Science and a very callow youth, I used to attend play readings organised by our very kindly English teacher in an attempt to become a bit more broadened in outlook. I turned up one evening in a tweed suit and shirt and tie. He...

Rover P2, registered in Wolverhampton in 1936/7 and probably a 12hp. A Commer van, I think, but not totally certain. At a guess, since the “ten year test” for private cars came in in 1960, I would suggest that these pictures are late 1950s, before these old warriors met their Waterloo, or...

Just the sort of cars I like! Austin A40 half ton van. There was a facelift about 1950 when the radiator grille became painted with less chrome, and the rear spats were deleted, but this van doesn’t have it, so it’s probably 1948/1950. An Armstrong Siddeley, a Twelve Plus or Fourteen from 1936...

Nice cars. Car 67 is a Gilbern. http://gilbern.co.uk/a-brief-history-of-gilbern-cars-ltd/

But they did sort it, and a Minor Traveller with a Midget engine is quite fun!

That’s a Minor, without doubt. All of the clues to tell if it is a Series 2 or a 1000 are invisible, but they sold very few Series 2s as it was a potentially heavy car for the puny and fragile Austin 803cc engine to drag about, especially if full of milk crates or bags of sand! The new in 1956...

How do you go about programming a 3-D printer? What is it like for producing large thin-walled curved items? There is a very hard to find Bentley part, a cover for the lower half of the flywheel which is a simple shape like half a bucket, sliced vertically. Would this technique reproduce such a...

If I read the plate on the milk float parked behind the 1939 design Ford Prefect as HVP 534 I can offer a more accurate date as being March to July 1948. Birmingham chose to segregate commercial vehicles from private cars when organising registrations and this leads to the occasional anomaly...

I hope I’m right! They are quite confusing because they are so similar, but detail differences occur to trip you up.

#1502 Rolls-Royces always cause problems, and those from the Royal Mews are even more of a problem because they don’t have number plates. The front car is a Phantom V or VI, and the old stager behind is a Phantom IV from 1954.

My suggestion would be a redundant brewery

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I have been digging around to see if I could establish a connection between the American company and this outfit in Birmingham, with little success. The history of the gramophone industry in USA, U.K. and Germany at that time is as incestuous as it is opaque. It also seems to have been more than...

Hark! Hark! No it’s not the lark, it’s the tin worms munching away at that Lancia Beta before they nip across the drive to the Austin Allegro.

Wouldn’t the drips go down your neck?

https://78records.wordpress.com/tag/united-talking-machine-company/ http://78records.cdbpdx.com/UR/ Like a lot of things, it seems that the Americans’ efforts to encourage the Brits to become an extra State of the Union were extended to the gramophone. I have not, so far, found an absolute...