Vintage toy car
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The Lines Brothers > Triang were beginning to make this sort of stuff from Merton in south London about that time but their efforts were cruder and less elegant :
Looking at that (superb) photo I suspect that this effort is a one-off and has been put together by a very gifted engineer, is that a Coat of Arms on the side of the seat ?
Rees, all of those posh horseless carriages, grand houses and access to high-end photography - I'm guessing your ancestors were doing pretty well out of South Walian life in the early noughties. Shipping ? Mining ?
Looking at that (superb) photo I suspect that this effort is a one-off and has been put together by a very gifted engineer, is that a Coat of Arms on the side of the seat ?
Rees, all of those posh horseless carriages, grand houses and access to high-end photography - I'm guessing your ancestors were doing pretty well out of South Walian life in the early noughties. Shipping ? Mining ?
moffspeed said:
The Lines Brothers > Triang were beginning to make this sort of stuff from Merton in south London about that time but their efforts were cruder and less elegant :
Looking at that (superb) photo I suspect that this effort is a one-off and has been put together by a very gifted engineer, is that a Coat of Arms on the side of the seat ?
Rees, all of those posh horseless carriages, grand houses and access to high-end photography - I'm guessing your ancestors were doing pretty well out of South Walian life in the early noughties. Shipping ? Mining ?
Well I reckon you were pretty spot on there! William Rees was an engineer. Cork leg from a farming accident when he was under 10. Will have to see if he could have made it himself. Farming and Tin plate works I think were the sources of income.Looking at that (superb) photo I suspect that this effort is a one-off and has been put together by a very gifted engineer, is that a Coat of Arms on the side of the seat ?
Rees, all of those posh horseless carriages, grand houses and access to high-end photography - I'm guessing your ancestors were doing pretty well out of South Walian life in the early noughties. Shipping ? Mining ?
Apologies for straying OT but I was in Caerphilly yesterday and was reminded of another one-legged Welsh engineer.
Artie Moore was a Caerphilly boy who during the 1890’s lost a leg in a farming accident. Undaunted he designed an artificial leg so that he could get back on a bike.
He won a school prize designing a horizontal steam engine and was awarded a book on electronics/wireless. The new fangled wireless technology fascinated him and soon he had designed his own receiver with copper aerial wires running up the valley above his home.
In 1912 he was the first in the U.K. to receive the distant SOS signal from SS Titanic. Artie furiously cycled to Caerphilly police station during the night to report the news of the unfolding disaster. The police sensed he’d had a few too many in the local pub and advised him to go home and sleep it off…
Artie Moore was a Caerphilly boy who during the 1890’s lost a leg in a farming accident. Undaunted he designed an artificial leg so that he could get back on a bike.
He won a school prize designing a horizontal steam engine and was awarded a book on electronics/wireless. The new fangled wireless technology fascinated him and soon he had designed his own receiver with copper aerial wires running up the valley above his home.
In 1912 he was the first in the U.K. to receive the distant SOS signal from SS Titanic. Artie furiously cycled to Caerphilly police station during the night to report the news of the unfolding disaster. The police sensed he’d had a few too many in the local pub and advised him to go home and sleep it off…
Edited by moffspeed on Saturday 10th August 09:21
Rees2000 said:
Well I reckon you were pretty spot on there! William Rees was an engineer. Cork leg from a farming accident when he was under 10. Will have to see if he could have made it himself. Farming and Tin plate works I think were the sources of income.
Access to a sheet metal works would make creating such a car relatively straightforward, the rest either salvaged from a pram or from bicycle parts. Still a pretty amazing thing to have as a child in that era.The hub may not have been the freewheel type, so could have been braked by resisting the rotation of the pedals. Alternatively some bikes had a back-pedal brake, where pushing the pedals backwards operated a drum brake inside the hub. I don't suppose speeds would have been that high so braking may not have been that much of a priority.
picture quality is not unusual - would have been glass plate photography and the detail it could record was fantastic… I used to own a glass plate photo collection (c. 100,000 plates) and I was continually amazed by the detail you could get out from a scan - largest plates I had were c. 12” x 16” - so if you think of that as a negative / sensor size the detail makes sense - in many ways we have lost quality for convenience in the move to film, as we then did in the move from film to digital…
great photo and memory to have…
great photo and memory to have…
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