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winchman Offline
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19-05-2023, 07:47 PM (This post was last modified: 19-05-2023, 08:29 PM by winchman.)
I remember watching a short film some one found an old car in a garage at the side of a house and got it up and running, it was 40's perhaps 50's can any one point me to it?
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https://www.bpvideolibrary.com/record/421
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Home-Made_Car
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19-05-2023, 09:54 PM
The 1923 Bull Nose (unsurprisingly) survives - but not the RR, registration YJW47.
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20-05-2023, 09:24 PM
Lovely bit of film.

Has anyone else used a vacuum cleaner spray gun? My mother sprayed our Ruby with her Electrolux in the 1950s and I used it again to apply the primer coats when we restored it in the 1980s. I got a better spray pattern than the bullnose Morris owner!
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20-05-2023, 11:39 PM
I spray painted the Seven's wheels hanging on the clothes line with silver paint using mother's vacuum cleaner gun in the 1950s.

Don't think I ruined the vacuum !
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21-05-2023, 12:06 PM
What a super little film. Brings it all back!
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22-05-2023, 07:28 AM (This post was last modified: 26-05-2023, 06:38 PM by Chris KC.)
I had long conversations with a colleague at work about spraying with a vacuum cleaner, some 10 or 15 years ago. He was a firm advocate. I'm afraid I failed to keep any useful notes and he has now retired...
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26-05-2023, 05:16 PM
(19-05-2023, 09:54 PM)Tony Griffiths Wrote: The 1923 Bull Nose (unsurprisingly) survives - but not the RR, registration YJW47.

Also surviving is the petrol station at Bucks Horn Oak on the A325, although greatly enlarged and now selling Shell rather than BP.

   

https://goo.gl/maps/QEnarAmQnM2SZooAA

Sadly the "Halfway House" pub opposite closed a few years ago.
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