No, Not That Kind Of Body Builders

Many places in the world local businesses build cars, busses and lorries on a chassis delivered by by car manufacturers. These businesses were dependent on drawings delivered by the manufacturers like the one in the middle here. Another way to get hold of drawings was through magazines like “Deutsche fahrzeug Technik” as the one at the top. The bottom drawing shows a finished plan for a small omnibus built on a Chevrolet chassis.

This Week’s Softdrink – Crass

This particular example of these “delicious beverages” was manufactured by Washington Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Inc. of Capitol Heights, Maryland. I always wondered why someone would produce a drink under a moniker that by definition implies “lacking sensitivity, refinement, or intelligence,” but it turns out that Crass soda was a namesake of James E. Crass, one of the earliest franchisers of the Central Coca-Cola Company, Inc, who acquired his first Coca-Cola bottling plant in my home state of South Carolina back in 1899 and then very successfully spread his cola crassness throughout the east coast in the early 1900s. This bottle is stamped ’68 on the bottom. I wish I knew how it tasted – did anyone out there ever have a swig of Crass back in the day?

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Help Needed
I need your help visitors, both in suggesting sodas and soft drinks from around the world and in giving your opinion on the ones presented if you know the product. And you can start with giving your opinion on the ones posted already or reading what other visitors have written  – Ted

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Old Drawing & Design Equipment

I love old drawing and design equipment and on Sunday I came across this nifty “Teknikk 20” compass set at a street marked. It is well kept and in very good condition. can’t wait to start testing it out.  I love working digitally, but I love spreading a nice white sheet of paper out on my drawing table and start making a woodwork plan or an illustration just as much – Ted

SS The Amerika

The Amerika of Hamburg America Line at the Prince of Wales Pier, Dover

Amerika was built for the HAPAG New York service in 1905. She was built by Harland & Wolff in Belfast, whose owner Lord Pirrie had a major interest in the Hamburg America Line. She was seized by the USA in 1917, and renamed America. Initially used as a troopship, she was passed to the United States Lines in 1921. She was badly damaged by fire in 1926, and scrapping was considered. She ailed again from 1927-31, and was then laid up. Rebuilt in 1942 (with only one funnel) and used as the US Army transport Edmund B.Alexander until 1949. She was broken up in 1958.

Text and image found at AdventuresOfTheBlackgang

Eufemia "Femi" Benussi – Italian Film Actress

Eufemia "Femi" Benussi (born 4 March 1945), is an Italian film actress. She appeared in 82 films between 1965 and 1983.

She was born in Rovigno, Italy (now Rovinj, Croatia). She debuted on stage at the Teatro del Popolo of Fiume, then she moved in Rome and made her film debut at 19 in Il boia scarlatto, with the pseudonym Femy Martin. Benussi was mainly active in genre films, and in the seventies she became a star of the commedia sexy all’italiana sub-genre.

Selected filmography
Bloody Pit of Horror (1965)
The Hawks and the Sparrows (1966)
Il tempo degli avvoltoi (1967)
Requiem for a Gringo (1968)
Death Knocks Twice (1969)
Tarzana, the Wild Girl (1969)
La mala ordina (1972)
The Countess Died of Laughter (1973)
La ragazza di via Condotti (1973)
Il domestico (1974)
The Sensual Man (1974)
The Stranger and the Gunfighter (1974)
The Killer Must Kill Again (1975)
Nude per l’assassino (1975)
The Bloodsucker Leads the Dance (1975)
Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife (1976)

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Model-Airplane Motor Drives Scooter

A digital recreation of an article published in Popular Science, April 1940
Up to 230 miles on a gallon of gasoline is the economical fuel-consumption rate of a curious motorized scooter constructed by E. Roberts, of Philadelphia, Pa. Converted from a toy motor cycle, the midget vehicle is driven by a one-fifth-horsepower model-airplane engine, acting on the front rubber-tired wheel through a spring-supported friction roller. Fifteen miles an hour is top speed on level ground.

Text and images found at modernmechanix.com

 

 

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Victorian Inventions – Part 10

From “Victorian Inventions” by Leonard De Vries published by American Heritage Press in 1972

A new mode of travelling has lately been invented, which the inventors claim to be applicable to any mining country where flumes exist, or which may be used wherever a stream of water of sufficient velocity of current can be enclosed for suitable distance. The device involves a carriage driven entirely by outside power; and, paradoxical as it may appear, it can travel either in the same direction as the force, or diametrically opposite thereto, while the direction of application of the power remains unchanged. In short, it is a carriage which travels up stream, impelled by no other force than that of the current.

The carriage rests on ordinary flanged wheels which traverse rails laid on the edges of the flume. On the axles are attached paddle wheels, which correspond in shape to the section of the flume and are acted upon by the current therein. It is clear that the current turning the paddles will so rotate the wheels of the vehicle, which will consequently move in a direction opposite to that of the current. When it is desired to move in the same direction as the current, the paddles are stayed stationary, and the water impels the car downstream.

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Yeah, right – Ted

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The Brayton Theatre

The Brayton Theatre on Atlantic Boulevard,  Long Beach opened in July 1925. After it closed in the early-1950’s, it reopened for a while showing serials etc on Saturday & Sunday mornings. It then closed for good. In 1967 it was reopened as part of the War on Poverty as a Teen Post, teaching acting skills to youngsters in the neighborhood. It was later torn down to make way for a Filipino church.

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The Morris Commercial J-type

The Morris Commercial J-type is a 10 cwt (0.5 ton) van launched by the Morris Commercial subsidiary of Morris Motors in 1949 and produced until 1961. After the formation, by the merger of Morris’ parent company, the Nuffield Organisation, and Austin, of the British Motor Corporation in 1952 Commercial was dropped and the van was marketed as the Morris J-type.

The van followed the emerging trend of having forward controls and sliding doors on each side. It was made in both left and right hand drive versions. As well as complete vehicles, the J-type was also supplied in chassis form to external body makers and it appeared, amongst other uses, as a pick-up, tipper truck, ice cream van and milk float. Many were bought by the British Post Office and these differed from standard in having rubber front and rear wings.

The J type is fitted with a 1476 cc four-cylinder side-valve engine based on the one used in the contemporary Morris Oxford car. Drive to the rear wheels is through a three-speed gearbox and initially a spiral bevel type rear axle, later replaced by a hypoid type.

The van was updated to the JB in 1957 when an overhead valve 1489 cc, BMC B-Series engine was fitted along with a four-speed gearbox.An Austin version of the van appeared in 1957 known as the Austin 101 and differed from the Morris only in badging and radiator grille styling.Production ceased early in 1961 after over 48,600 had been made. It was replaced by the Morris J4.

Notable J-types
A famous Morris Commercial in terms of media exposure is the Reactine van advertising the allergy medication on television and at promotional events.

On 3 February 2013, a J-type became the newest face of Cadbury chocolate in Australia and New Zealand. The "Joymobile" promotion van (or vans) featured in Australia is known to be the vehicle previously partially restored in Hobart, Tasmania, then sold to a ‘mystery buyer’ and converted and decorated in Cadbury’s distinctive purple colour in Sydney. The Television advertisement was filmed in New Zealand.

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This Week’s Girlymag Articel – Never In A Bedroom

This Baby Doll, who goes under the intriguing name of Elspeth, had one of the most popular fixations any young woman ever dreamed of! It seems that when Elspeth was a very young girl, she was frightened by someone (or something) while sleeping in her own Little baddy-bye, in her own little bedroom. Ever since then, little Elspeth has had a freak kind of fear of bedrooms. She just won’t sleep in one. She’ll sleep on the floor, or on a table, or a couch _ or even the back seat of a car! But never in a bedroom! Read the whole article and see the naughty pictures HERE Warning: Nudity do occur in this article. If you are under age or live in a country where watching images of nude women for some reason  is against the law  I take no responsibility if you click the link above. In other words you’re flying solo from here on – Ted 😉

Yamaha Maxam – The Ultimate Scooter?

The Maxam CP250 did start life as a concept—way back in 2005. But then Yamaha put it into production. It’s billed as a ‘tandem cruiser’, and it’s on sale right now in Japan. The technical specification is uninspiring: power comes from a 250cc single, and there’s only 20bhp to pull a very substantial 201kg (440 lbs). But that’s not what the Maxam is about. It’s about the styling, which is out of this world. It seems to be channeling the legendary General Motors designer Harley Earl, with cues from a 1950s Cadillac and four colorways to choose from. That bodywork comes at a price though, because the Maxam costs the equivalent of US$7,500—nearly a thousand dollars more than Vespa’s range-topping GTV 250. But is there any better way for two young Tokyo hipsters to comfortably cruise the neon streets of Shibuya?

On This Day In 1991: Freddie Mercury Dies

Freddie Mercury has died aged 45, just one day after he publicly announced he was HIV positive. The lead singer for rock group Queen died quietly at his home in west London of bronchio-pneumonia, brought on by Aids, his publicist said. The flamboyant star is thought to have had the disease for two years, but he continued to make music and the decline in his health was only rarely glimpsed.

Mercury was born Farookh Bulsara in Zanzibar in 1946 and spent most of his childhood in India before his family settled in England in 1964. That year he enrolled in art school.

Freddie Mercury, Roger Taylor, Brian May and Mike Grose formed Queen in 1970. Regarded by fans and critics alike as a consummate showman, Mercury was openly bisexual and enjoyed a colourful rock-star lifestyle.

“A great personality”
Music critic Paul Gambaccini

Tributes from all over the world have been pouring in for the man who stole the show at Live Aid and wrote ground-breaking hits like Bohemian Rhapsody – which was number one in the UK for nine weeks.

Music critic Paul Gambaccini praised Mercury for his huge contribution to hard rock music. "He gave a form which was pretty staid and sour, a great personality," he said.

The director of an Aids education charity, Dr Patrick Dixon, told the BBC that Mercury’s greatest gift to his fans was admitting he was suffering from the disease. "His hope was no doubt that through his openness many people throughout the world would see that Aids is a real illness – that it’s killing people every day," said Dr Dixon.

In Context
A Freddie Mercury tribute concert for Aids awareness was held five months after his death at Wembley Stadium, London, and was attended by 72,000 people. Dozens of stars appeared at the event which was broadcast to 70 countries and raised about £20m for Aids charities.

His enormous contribution to music and his early death quickly cemented his reputation as a rock legend. In August 2002 voters in a BBC poll voted him among their top 100 British heroes.

Text from BBCs On This Day

The Sunday Comic – Doing Ones Part

A Passion For Tempos

I love people with a passion, I don’t care about what. Here’s a blog from a guy concentrating completely on Tempo cars and he’s not even a European, but an Australian. If that’s not a passion I don’t know what is. Hit the illustration for the blog – Ted

Jack Vettriano – Scottish Painter

Jack Vettriano OBE born Jack Hoggan (born 17 November 1951), is a Scottish painter. His 1992 painting, The Singing Butler, became a best selling image in Britain.

Early life
Jack Vettriano grew up in the industrial seaside town of Methil, Fife. He grew up in poverty with his mother and father and older brother, in a spartan miner’s cottage, sharing a bed with his brother and wearing handed down clothes. From the age of 10, his father sent him out delivering papers and milk, cleaning windows, picking potatoes and any job that would earn money. His father took half his earnings.

Vettriano left school at 16 and later became an apprentice mining engineer. For a short time in the late 1960s he once had a summer job as a bingo caller at the Beachcomber Amusements on Leven Promenade. Vettriano took up painting as a hobby in the 1970s, when a girlfriend bought him a set of watercolours for his 21st birthday. His earliest paintings, under his birth name "Jack Hoggan", were copies or pastiches of impressionist paintings; his first painting was a copy of Monet’s Poppy Fields. Much of his influence came from studying paintings at the Kirkcaldy Museum and Art Gallery. In 1984, Vettriano first submitted his work to the Shell-sponsored art exhibition in the museum.

In 1987, at 36, Vettriano’s wife Gail left him. He left his job in educational research, and moved to Edinburgh. There, he adopted his mother’s maiden name, gave away his suits to a neighbour and started dressing as an Edwardian dandy. He applied to study Fine Art at the University of Edinburgh, but his portfolio was rejected.

Career
In 1988, Vettriano submitted two canvases for the Royal Scottish Academy annual show. Both paintings sold on the first day and Vettriano was approached by several galleries who wanted to sell his work. Further successful exhibitions followed in Edinburgh, London, Hong Kong, Johannesburg, and New York.

His easel paintings cost between £48,000 and £195,000 new. According to The Guardian, he earns £500,000 a year in print royalties. Vettriano’s 1992 painting, The Singing Butler has been the best selling image in Britain. On 21 April 2004 the original canvas of The Singing Butler sold at auction for £744,500. It had been rejected in 1992 by the Royal Academy summer exhibition.

In November 1999, Vettriano’s work was shown for the first time in New York, when 21 paintings were displayed at The International 20th Century Arts Fair at The Armory. More than forty collectors from the UK flew out for the event and all twenty-one paintings were sold on the opening night.

In 1996, Sir Terence Conran commissioned Vettriano to create a series of paintings for his new Bluebird Club in London. The seven paintings inspired by the life of Sir Malcolm Campbell hung in the Club for ten years. Heartbreak Publishing, Vettriano’s own publishing company, produced a boxed set featuring signed, limited edition prints of all seven paintings to mark the 75th anniversary of Sir Malcolm Campbell’s final World Land Speed Record. The Bluebird paintings were put up for sale at Sotheby’s on 30 August 2007 and made more than £1m. The most expensive was Bluebird at Bonneville, bought for £468,000 at a Sotheby’s auction held at the Gleneagles Hotel in Perthshire.

Vettriano has studios in Scotland and London. He was represented by the Portland Gallery, London from 1993 to 2007 and counts Jack Nicholson, Sir Alex Ferguson, Sir Tim Rice and Robbie Coltrane amongst his collectors. To date, five books have been published about Jack Vettriano, the most recent of which is entitled ‘Studio Life’ and was published in March 2008.

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Music Genre Glossary T – Z

Even the most music interested among us can sometimes get lost in all the different labels music journalists and record companies choose to put on recordings. This glossary may help you find your way in this label jungle. As you can see from the text above here this glossary is from 1979 and as this is a retro blog that works alright for me. Besides, any music styles that has emerged since then is of little interest to me, with the possible exception of neo-classic country. I’m sorry to say that dance, trance, hip-hop, rap and the rest simply don’t do it for me – Ted

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Grand-daddy’s Sauce – Part 9

All posts material: “Sauce” and “Gentleman’s Relish” by Ronnie Barker – Hodder & Stoughton in 1977

Not Tonight Josephine

Napoleon: Is that you Josephine? Napoleon: Not tonight, Josephine. Napoleon: I said, not tonight Josephine!   Josephine: Don’t you worry chummy! Not tomorrow either! (Exits)

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Industriewerke Ludwigsfelde’s Scooters

Pitty

On a scooter, a pressed-steel full enclosure under the seat encases the rear wheel, engine and gearbox. In order to remain within its operating temperature range, a cooling fan was added to the air-cooled MZ engine. Powering this fan sapped the engine’s already inadequate 5 bhp power output. IWL copied Glas and Heinkel by giving the Pitty a large fairing that enveloped the front wheel. This increased the scooter’s weight to 139 kilograms (306 lb), which was heavy for its class and further impeded its under-powered performance. IWL claimed a 70 km/h (43 mph) top speed, but in practice this was seldom achieved.

At the beginning of 1955, reporters from the East German Der deutsche Straßenverkehr magazine tested the Pitty and gave IWL numerous suggestions to improve it. Numerous customers who bought the scooter also complained. The Pitty has a dualseat that riders complained was too hard. Unlike most scooters, the Pitty has no steering lock for security. Its only anti-theft device is a flap in the enclosure under the seat that can be closed over the fuel tap and locked. IWL reacted to criticism by quickly developing a successor model, and kept the Pitty in production for only just over a year. In this time a total of only 11,293 Pitty scooters IWL’s first production model, named the Pitty, was launched early in 1955 at a retail price of 2,300 Marks. The Pitty’s front wheel had leading link suspension, while its rear wheel had hydraulically damped swingarm suspension on which the engine and gearbox unit was mounted: an arrangement that Vespa had pioneered. However, IWL followed West German practice in mounting the engine in front of the rear wheel instead of beside it, thus giving the Pitty a much longer wheelbase than its Italian counterparts.

IWL’s first production model, named the Pitty, was launched early in 1955 at a retail price of 2,300 Marks. The Pitty’s front wheel had leading link suspension, while its rear wheel had hydraulically damped swingarm suspension on which the engine and gearbox unit was mounted: an arrangement that Vespa had pioneered. However, IWL followed West German practice in mounting the engine in front of the rear wheel instead of beside it, thus giving the Pitty a much longer wheelbase than its Italian counterparts.

SR 56 Wiesel

 In 1956 IWL replaced the Pitty with the SR 56 Wiesel. "SR" stands for StadtRoller ("town scooter"), 56 is the year, and Wiesel is German for weasel. Instead of the Pitty’s huge fairing, the Wiesel has a more conventional scooter fairing behind the front wheel and a separate front mudguard. This reduced the weight to 124 kg (273 lb): still heavy, but 15 kg (33 lb) lighter than the Pitty.

 Also in 1956 MZ introduced the RT 125/2 motorcycle, for which it marginally increased engine power to 6 bhp. Both the weight reduction and the power increase were small, and the Wiesel’s power-to-weight ratio was inferior to that of numerous western competitors. IWL claimed a 60 km/h (37 mph) cruising speed, but in reality the Wiesel was only 3 km/h (2 mph) or 4 km/h (2.5 mph) faster than the Pitty.

Despite customer complaints, the Wiesel retained its predecessor’s hard upholstery, lockable fuel tap flap and lack of a steering lock. It was easy for a thief to force the flap, and Der deutsche Straßenverkehr’s testers were astonished that IWL had not rectified this fault from the previous model. IWL produced the Wiesel until 1959, by which time a total of 57,400 had been built.

SR 59 Berlin


In 1959 IWL replaced the SR 56 Wiesel with the SR 59 Berlin. This shared the same bodywork as the Wiesel but had well-upholstered separate saddles for the rider and pillion passenger. Also in 1959, MZ introduced the RT 125/3 motorcycle, which had not only a slightly more powerful engine but also a four-speed transmission. IWL specially requested that the version of the RT 125/3 motor made for the scooter be bored out to 143 cc, which increased power output to 7.5 bhp. IWL credibly claimed a top speed of 82 km/h (51 mph) and a cruising speed of 70 km/h (43 mph). The four-speed transmission improved the machine’s flexibility, making hill-climbing significantly less strenuous. The Berlin at last gave riders in the DDR a scooter that was good enough for practical use. It was therefore just as well that IWL at last included a steering lock to secure the relatively desirable Berlin against theft.

The Berlin still had less power than many of its western counterparts. In common with its predecessors, its front suspension was undamped, which on roads as bumpy as the DDR’s was a significant weak point. Nevertheless, the Berlin secured IWL’s first export orders. IWL produced the Berlin until the end of 1962, by which time a total of 113,943 had been built.

TR 150 Troll

In 1963 IWL replaced the SR 59 Berlin with the TR 150 Troll 1. Whereas the Wiesel and Berlin had retailed for 2,300 Marks, the same price as a Pitty in 1954, for the Troll 1 the price was increased to 2,550 Marks.

"TR" stands for TourenRoller and "Troll" stands for TourenRoller Ludwigsfelde ("Ludwigsfelde touring scooter") emphasising the longer journeys on which IWL scooters were now being ridden. The "1" at the end evidently indicated that IWL hoped to develop a further model. However, in December 1962, during the Troll 1’s development, the Ministerrat der DDR ("Council of Ministers of the GDR") had announced that the factory would switch to making a new model of IFA truck. This decision may have acted as a disincentive to improve the Troll 1 from before the model’s launch in 1963 until the end of production in 1965.

Both in Germany and in most of the European states to which IWL might have hoped to export scooters, trolls are known from Norse mythology and Scandinavian folklore as beings that are in many cases slow-witted, in some cases ugly, seldom friendly to humans and in a few cases inclined to kill and eat people. Why any vehicle maker would choose to name one of its models after such creatures is not clear.

In 1962 MZ had introduced the ES 150 motorcycle, and the scooter version of its 143 cc engine supplied for the Troll 1 had its power increased to 9.5 bhp. The rear chain runs in an oilbath in a patent MZ hard-rubber enclosure, which keeps oil in and dirt out and greatly prolongs chain life. IWL revised the bodywork, giving a tail unit like that of the Heinkel Tourist model A2 and quickly detachable side panels like a Dürkopp Diana. Each side panel is secured by a central bayonet lock and is simple to undo and light to remove, easing access to the engine, gearbox and rear chain.

For the Troll 1, IWL reverted to a dualseat, perhaps because twin saddles were becoming dated. The Troll 1 had 160 mm (6.3 in) diameter drum brakes: 10 mm (0.4 in) bigger than on all previous IWL models.

Tatran S 125

From 1966 a scooter from the ČSSR was imported for sale in the DDR. The Tatran S 125 had only a 124 cc engine producing 7 bhp. However, with less weight and a shorter wheelbase than any IWL model, the Tatran’s power-to-weight ratio was practical and at last offered East Germans a real "town scooter"

Campi trailer

Although IWL projected their scooters as a"town scooters", new private motor vehicles were in such short supply in the DDR that customers made no such distinction. The Berlin was capable of longer journeys, including holidays, but a scooter has far less luggage capacity than either a small car or a motorcycle and sidecar combination. Instead of devising a sidecar to fit the Berlin, IWL collaborated with Stoye of Leipzig, the DDR’s sidecar manufacturer, to develop a lightweight, single-wheel trailer.

The result was the Campi trailer, which was styled to complement a scooter and was roomy enough to carry a set of 1960s camping equipment. IWL made the Campi’s chassis, including a tubular steel towing link that connected to the scooter behind the pillion seat and above the rear light. Stoye made the bodywork, which is aluminium and contributes to the trailer weighing only 30 kg (66 lb). This made it light enough for a Berlin’s 7.5 bhp engine to cope with the combined weight of its rider, passenger, trailer and luggage, albeit at markedly less speed than when being ridden solo.

The Campi added inconveniently to the length of the scooter, while adding less luggage capacity than a sidecar. Because of these limitations, its use was confined chiefly to holiday and leisure journeys. The Campi was made until 1965, by which time a total of about 5,700 of these trailers had been built.

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More British Postcards From The Late Seventies

From my own collections – Ted

Paola Pitagora – Italian Actress

Paola Pitagora (born 24 August 1941) is an Italian film actress. She has appeared in 50 films since 1959.

Born in Parma, Pitagora attended the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia and the acting school by Alessandro Fersen. In 1960 she debuted as a RAI TV-hostess of variety and infortaintment programs. In 1962 she made her theatrical debut with Gog e Magog, then appeared in a great number of stage works. In 1965 she achieved a wide popularity with the leading role of Lucia in the TV series I Promessi sposi directed by Sandro Bolchi. She later starred on several other TV series, having one another remarkable success in 1972 with the sci-fi series A come Andromeda.

Pitagora’s film career started in 1959 with an uncredited role in Costa azzurra; she had fewer opportunities to show her talent at cinema, where is probably best known for the role of the unstable Giulia of Marco Bellocchio‘s Fists in the Pocket (1965). In 1969 she won the Nastro d’Argento for best actress thanks to her performance in the Luigi Comencini’s giallo Unknown Woman.

Pitagora is also an author of songs for children; her song "La giacca rotta" won the Zecchino d’Oro in 1962.

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