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Ian Bowers
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Colin Butchers
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 16/07/2014 : 10:20:11
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The picture shows the Bellevue Garage Team of J2s, with Kenneth Evans leading, Doreen (with Nevil Lloyd doing the driving as Doreen was to young)in the middle and Denis Evans bringing up the rear.
This is one of the fabulous Brunell photographs many of which (but not this particular image)were published some years ago by Roy Bacon under the title of "The Golden Age of British Motoring" (Classic Cars from 1900 to 1940). A marvellous collection of pictures, let down by appalling captioning - with something like 100 or more errors in a book of under 200 pages !
Colin B.
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Vitesse
United Kingdom
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Posted - 16/07/2014 : 11:37:05
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The entire Brunell archive is now available - watermarked and in a fairly small format - on the MPL website. They've scanned all the images (nearly 5000 of them), but I don't think any research has been done to correct the errors which Colin mentions and which I assume Bacon probably took from index cards or other records at Beaulieu, where the original glass plates reside. The later pictures are particularly badly identified and I wonder if they were done from memory some years later after the original records were lost.
The search engine is a bit odd, in that if you add anything else to a search for Brunell it brings up the same result, with 4894 hits.
http://www.motoringpicturelibrary.com/Images?location_id=5&filter=brunell
However, a search for MG with no other parameters narrows it down to 'only' 1349, not all of which are necessarily Brunell pictures:
http://www.motoringpicturelibrary.com/Images?location_id=5&filter=MG |
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Colin Butchers
United Kingdom
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Posted - 17/07/2014 : 11:30:57
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Thank you Richard, that is very interesting. On one occasion I was at the NMM Library at Beaulieu and I was mouthing off (as I am prone to do from time to time !) as to how anyone could have made such a todge-up with the captioning, bearing in mind that Bacon had written a number of other books on motoring subjects. I detected a degree of embarassment on the part of the Beaulieu staff, which I thought answered my query.
In fairness, I have come across a number of Brunell photographs, which he had captioned on the reverse side in his own handwriting - and he was quite wrong ! Done some months or years after he took the pictures, I would guess.
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TomDrewett
United Kingdom
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Posted - 17/07/2014 : 14:41:44
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| It is a very good link, with some great pictures. There are a good number of MGs taking part in the 1934 B&HMC Brighton to Beer trial, including a picture of my M, which I was pleased to find. Type in Fingle Bridge to the search function and up they come. |
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George Eagle
United Kingdom
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Posted - 17/07/2014 : 22:06:54
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The photos have only appeared in today's Daily Telegraph here in North Bucks!
George
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