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Cooperman
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 Posted - 25/02/2015 : 11:57:35
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Here is a picture I was sent sometime ago and I can't remember where it came from.
What is the car? It looks like an M type but the screen isn't the correct shape. Is it a well known picture?
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Ian Bowers
United Kingdom
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Posted - 25/02/2015 : 13:19:34
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For the avoidance of doubt and any suggestion that Cobs has anything to do with the car:
The “Cobs” were London’s water carriers paid to bring water from the conduit heads to individual
households willing to pay for their services. A day’s supply of water bought from a Cob typically cost
a penny. In 1496 the London water-bearers formed a Fraternity in the Augustine Friars, the Fellowship
of the Brotherhood of St Christopher of the Water-Bearers of the City of London.
Ian Bowers
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Malcolm Eades
United Kingdom
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Mike the M
United Kingdom
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Posted - 25/02/2015 : 16:27:05
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Have emailed the Worshipful Company of Water Conservators, (the modern name - from Google) to ask if they could kindly tell us when it took place.
Also another picture of the car from Motor Sport June 1932
Hope this of interest.
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Cooperman
United Kingdom
760 Posts |
Posted - 25/02/2015 : 17:39:00
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Keep it coming, very interesting, especially as the screen appears to have been altered at some time. Does the car still exist?
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Vitesse
United Kingdom
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Posted - 28/02/2015 : 22:49:46
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Looks to be the Lord Mayor's Show, November 9th 1932. This is from The Times, November 1st 1932, page 9.
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Cooperman
United Kingdom
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Posted - 01/03/2015 : 09:24:39
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Well done Richard, where on earth did you find that?
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Vitesse
United Kingdom
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Posted - 01/03/2015 : 14:06:31
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Easy when you know how! Just about every UK public library system offers free in-home access to The Times - some offer archives of other papers like The Guardian too. All you need is a library card.
Once you've mastered the search engine - which can be a bit quirky but is very powerful - it's a very useful resource for all sorts of research. That only took me about five minutes to find.
That year's Lord Mayor's Show appears to have been a fairly modest affair. Most of it was dedicated to the history of printing - not that you'd know that from the British Pathé coverage, which concentrates on the military bands and the British Legion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DIBjLzIWVI Still, it was just two days before Remembrance Day ... |
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PeterL
United Kingdom
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Posted - 01/03/2015 : 18:58:13
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MG704 featured in a couple of posts in Nov and December 2011...
Cheers
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What's this car and occasion?
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