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[Rob]

Had a great trip to this museum at the weekend - unfortunately my camera batteries died on me so most of the photographs are of the Edwardian era vehicles which are of the most interest to me, but there's a very nice collection of commercial vehicles from the 1920's through to the 1960's which, although outside my normal scope of interest, were very interesting, especially the Thornycroft's.

There were only two drawbacks, personally, to the museum - first is lack of information on the vehicles, very very few had any information as to actually what they were, and most of those that did were because of makers plates visible, which I thought was rather strange for a place with such a large and interesting collection - the guide didn't have a listing of vehicles that I saw, and so most of the information I have on dates for the steam vehicles came from online sources. Second is the lighting - visibly it's fine but for photography not too great, which again is the same for every motor museum i've visited - flash doesn't work well at all and using handheld and hoping for the best didn't work too well, so I had to brace the camera against walls etc, although hopefully i'll return with full batteries and a tripod before too long



Late 19th century Lever Safety Bicycle replica, based on a Penny Farthing





1903 10hp Thornycroft in recreated Edwardian garage scene



Thornycroft Amazon RAF Coles Crane





Unknown Thornycroft Car (can anyone ID it? The list of surviving Thornycroft vehicles on the Hampshire Museums site isn't much help for this one)





1907 Thornycroft 30hp



Another unknown car - presumably Thornycroft as it's in the Thornycroft exhibit



1919 Thornycroft bus



1916 Thornycroft J type 3 ton army lorry



Portsmouth tram and Taskers portable engine



One of my favourite exhibits - a 1912 Wallis & Steevens steam lorry, what a beauty



1914 Taskers B2 'Little Giant'



Another favourite, I had no idea any of these still existed so was very excited to see this - a 1902 Thornycroft steam lorry



1918 Thornycroft X type



Wallis & Steevens factory front with 1928 'Simplicity' steam roller with angled boiler coming out of the front, inside is a 1930's diesel steam roller and the 1912 steam lorry shown above



1917 Taskers B2 'Little Giant' called Blossom



1923 Taskers 'Little Giant' steam roller



Overview of the two Taskers shown above

All in all a superb museum and a must visit in my opinion - the pub is brilliant too!
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[Churchill Johnson]

Strange that not much if any details on the car's as this museum has the thornycroft list of cars sold register.

[Rob]

Yes - the sales register doesn't list registrations to ID the cars, the list of surviving ones doesn't have any of the registrations of the two unknown ones. My best guess is that the two seater is one of the two 1908 four inch TT racing cars, and that the one with the streamlined radiator is the 1911 18hp P4 as listed here http://www3.hants.gov.uk/surviving-thornycroft-cars.pdf
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[roverdriver]

Given the circumstances, Rob, you have managed the photographs very well.
Thanks for posting them
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[Rick]

Well worth a visit by the looks of things, thanks for posting the photos

R
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[lowdrag]

Brings back memories that does - the Portsmouth tram. it was like changing gear without using the clutch - the jerk you had to be prepared for as it accelerated. And then they stopped and got the big pole out to change lines. Ah, memories!