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Seven in an unlikely place
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Many will know about the A7 on top of the Cambridge University Senate House but I had not heard of the A7 that ended up hanging under the Kingsgate Bridge in Durham in the mid-1960s.

I was giving a talk about A7s at our local 41Club/Round Table this week when a young chap came up to me and showed me the picture. He was a student at Durham fairly recently and had somehow heard of the event - though he didn't know what the car was until I told him.


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Copyright of the photo is not known to me.
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(08-02-2018, 05:34 PM)NickĀ Salmon Wrote: Many will know about the A7 on top of the Cambridge University Senate House but I had not heard of the A7 that ended up hanging under the Kingsgate Bridge in Durham in the mid-1960s.

I was giving a talk about A7s at our local 41Club/Round Table this week when a young chap came up to me and showed me the picture. He was a student at Durham fairly recently and had somehow heard of the event - though he didn't know what the car was until I told him.



Copyright of the photo is not known to me.
Also in Cambridge a box saloon was suspended from the bridge of Sighs (St John's College), I think it was during the seventies. I understand that the car was floated down river on two punts before being raised into position, relatively simple compared with the Senate House or Durham stunts!
Robert Leigh
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Cambridge A7 under the bridge is reported in the Cambridge news, link below.

https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/ca...d-13428268

Photo shows the car being removed.

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