07-05-2021, 12:47 AM (This post was last modified: 07-05-2021, 12:48 AM by Tony Griffiths.)
Looking through a "Wonder Book of Motors" I can across this engaging image - click on it for a better picture
If you would like a very high resolution copy that can be blown up to fit on your living room wall, it can be downloaded here: https://lathes.uk/W-book-highres-1.jpg
Excellent painting/print. Do we know what type is depicted? The attachment for the rear of the rear springs seem interesting. Artistic license? I love the stones being cast up and the flames existing the exhaust. As well, the young boy in his school cap and the rest with their summer suits. I generally watch from the inside of a turn.
Several pre war GP cars found their way to NZ and in the late 50s I can recall marvelling at the similar frail looking arrangemt on one of them at the local Levin race track
It looks like the artist had a clockwork tinplate model by CIJ (France) of the P2 Alfa Romeo to use as the subject. This was a very popular, if expensive, model in the 1920s, and remains popular but horrendously expensive today!
07-05-2021, 10:18 AM (This post was last modified: 07-05-2021, 10:23 AM by Tony Griffiths.)
(07-05-2021, 10:01 AM)Mick Hobday Wrote: It looks like the artist had a clockwork tinplate model by CIJ (France) of the P2 Alfa Romeo to use as the subject. This was a very popular, if expensive, model in the 1920s, and remains popular but horrendously expensive today!
Spot on. I have another image showing evidence of the works experimental clockwork-powered auxiliary supercharger.
What a superb image Mike - and your Model P2 is rather nice, too.....
07-05-2021, 10:58 AM (This post was last modified: 07-05-2021, 11:03 AM by Bob Culver.)
All you need to complete the series is the photo of car after killing a few spectators and which led to the ban on road racing in UK.
At any such event today hundreds of images would be taken, but none of quality to match those.
I spent last Sunday reading theMotor Cycle timeline in which there were numerous reports of hill climbs and trials in the period up to 1912. The tales and images of trials and crowds attending XXXXton &D.M.C events are amazing