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Rick Site Admin
Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22458 Location: UK
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Posted: Sun Aug 25, 2019 4:17 pm Post subject: Thomson & Taylor (Brooklands) Ltd - blueprint drawing |
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Hi all,
Can anyone help id the car represented in the drawing below?
It's a sizeable blueprint, and very tricky to photograph in its glazed frame (hence the many reflections). In the lower left corner it's credited to Thomson & Taylor (Brooklands) Ltd, Brooklands Track, Byfleet Surrey, a company that was involved in the build of various Land Speed Record cars at the circuit, in the vintage era.
In faint handwritten ink it says "Reproduced by kind permission of Thomson & Taylors Aug 1970" - has anyone seen this before? Was the drawing reproduced in numbers to sell, say at Brooklands, or in a magazine, or elsewhere? The chap I bought it from didn't know much about it, other than it belonged previously to someone that had worked on the car shown - but what car/vehicle is it? and is it even LSR related, or something more mundane entirely?
Apologies for the horizontal scrolling required, but to shrink it too far would reduce the visible details.
A closer look at the engine:
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Penman
Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4765 Location: Swindon, Wilts.
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Posted: Sun Aug 25, 2019 5:47 pm Post subject: |
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Hi
It is very low with the driver alongside the rear wheel and a relatively long bonnet.
Short slightly cranked gear lever visible and a vertical steering wheel behind the gear lever.
Have you seen what sort of cars they built?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomson_%26_Taylor#Notable_cars
t could be one of the Bluebirds the Napier and ERA look to tall and the Railton Special is driven from in front of the engine.
The engine could be a W12 _________________ Bristols should always come in pairs.
Any 2 from:-
Straight 6
V8 V10
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peter scott
Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7124 Location: Edinburgh
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Posted: Sun Aug 25, 2019 7:11 pm Post subject: |
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I think it might be Malcolm Campbell's Bluebird that used the Napier Lion engine in 1931 before he transferred to using Rolls Royce engines. In this car he took the record to 246.088mph.
Peter _________________ http://www.nostalgiatech.co.uk
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Rick Site Admin
Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22458 Location: UK
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Ray White
Joined: 02 Dec 2014 Posts: 6342 Location: Derby
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Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2024 9:47 pm Post subject: |
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https://www.speedace.info/golden_arrow.htm
Before Bluebird there was the Golden Arrow (1929)which resides at the NMM. When I was just a lad, I visited what was then the Montague Motor Museum. It was not the big attraction that it is today and Lord Montague was always pleased to show visitors around personally.
On one occasion I remember being awe struck by The Golden Arrow; so much so that his Lordship sat me behind the wheel where I could fantasise to my heart's content. While my Dad and His Lordship chatted about old cars my Mum took tea with her Ladyship.
That kind of thing could never happen these days.. |
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peter scott
Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7124 Location: Edinburgh
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Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2024 10:25 am Post subject: |
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Wow! I love Golden Arrow too. Getting into the "cock pit" must have been a great experience.
Peter _________________ http://www.nostalgiatech.co.uk
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Ray White
Joined: 02 Dec 2014 Posts: 6342 Location: Derby
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Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2024 11:15 am Post subject: |
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peter scott wrote: | Wow! I love Golden Arrow too. Getting into the "cock pit" must have been a great experience.
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I can remember it like it was yesterday. The only downside I remember was when I went back to school brimming with enthusiasm ... but none of my mates had a clue what I was talking about.
I also sat behind the wheel of AX 201; probably the most famous Rolls Royce of them all. I love that car. It was not hard to see why it was regarded as the best car in the World!
I was so lucky. It helped a lot that my Dad got on very well with Lord Montague. It proved to me that old cars can bring people together regardless of their station in life.
Mother, of course, was in her element. |
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