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The forum contributor calls the device the first in the BlackBerry R-series, which has been expected for some time as the BB 10 update to Curve.
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The Blackberry R-series device will be released in the third or fourth quarter of 2013, according to several reports. The timing jives with comments about upcoming products made by BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins to analysts during the company's fourth quarter earnings call.
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Last week, a purported BlackBerry roadmap appeared in a tweeted image from @BB10Leaks that shows a larger tablet and two phone-tablet, or phablet, devices coming in the next 12 months.
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BEIJING (AP) — China's capital is boosting armed police patrols following a spate of attacks the government blames on terrorists seeking independence for the northwestern region of Xinjiang.
Beijing's police force said Monday on its microblog that 150 additional vehicles were being assigned to guard key intersections around the city of more than 20 million people. It said the measure was taken to increase the public's sense of security, intimidate would-be assailants, and to shorten response times to violent incidents.
China has increased security countrywide in the wake of two deadly attacks at train stations blamed on extremists from among Xinjiang's native Turkic Muslim Uighur ethnic group.
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Starting yesterday and concluding today, the Westminster Dog Show at Madison Square Garden features the finest athletic specimens at MSG since ... well, since the last Dog Show. We don't consider competitive dog preening a sport, but we do find it funny, and we think Best In Show is one of the funniest movies ever made.
Therefore, we dispatched intrepid reporter Barry Petchesky to cover the show yesterday — he'll be there again today and filing tomorrow — and give us the lay of the land and clock some bitches. Barry Petchesky is a journalism student, and he plans to use this as a clip, which is rather pathetic. We now hand the mic to him.
Through a complex chain of events that began with me discovering my beer pong partner had mono, I somehow stumbled into a press credential for the Westminster Dog Show, better known as "Why isn't wrestling on?" Why not, I told myself, what's the worst that could happen? Well, other than being mauled by a pack of 200 lb. Mastiffs, or catching the # # # # germ just by being the presence of sculpted poodles, that is. So I headed down to Madison Square Garden, camera in tow, for two days of bad dog puns.
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I'm surprised, when I arrive, to see scalpers outside the Garden. "Want to see the mutts?" one asks.
Yes. Yes I do. I didn't realize how important this event is to some people. Is it even a sport? I guess so, since Sportscenter shows highlights, and I have faith that ESPN would never show anything that's not strictly sports-related. And nor would Deadspin!
I make my way to the press room and sign in. ("I wouldn't leave your jacket here," I was helpfully told, "I wouldn't trust the media.") Then down to the bowels of the arena to find the athletes themselves.
I am immediately overwhelmed by the smell. Since the Knicks are on the road, I know I'm getting close. Then, I see this:
Hello, Westminster.
The holding area for the dogs is an absolute madhouse. More than a thousand dogs in cages, rows upon rows of them. Plaintive wails filling the air. The overpowering stench of feces. It's a regular Doggie Dachau.
I immediate decide to help in the liberation of one, so I accompany Greggory ("That's with three Gs, if ya please," his 90-year-old owner tells me) the Siberian Husky on a quick walk around the building. He's stopped to bask in the attention of three young children, when Greggory spots movement behind a trash can. A mouse darts out across the floor, and before his owner can restrain him, Greggory pounces on that little bastard and tears it apart. Greggory, you're awesome. I hope you win.
Back to the holding area. You know how they tell you to react when you're undergoing a traumatic experience? Disassociate. Leave your body. Go numb.
Look at him. Look at those eyes. He's dead inside. After a quick prayer for his soul, I move on.
Meet Doozer.
He's an ugly little rat dog, yes, but he's now also my favorite animal ever. You see, Doozer has quite a little talent. I'm talking to his owner Alison Allison (someone had cruel parents) while the Dooze is taking care of business in one of the many "poop pens" scattered about. I look down, and I see something that shakes my faith in everything I've ever known. Somehow Doozer has managed to leave a turd on the side wall of the pen, about 18 inches up. It's a perfect spiral, good consistency, and it's fucking defying gravity. If I could do that, I'd move to Vegas and charge people to watch. Doozer seems impressed too, as he sticks his snout deep into his brown gift to mankind.
There's a stigma associated with cat people, and rightly so; they're generally a bit off. Why don't we look down on dog people the same way? I don't mean the average dog owner; I mean the kind of person who wears a sweater with three dog asses side by side, with the legend "Nothing Butt Cockers." This place is dog people heaven. For sale, there's dog jewelry, dog clothing, dog calendars, dog ties, dog grooming accessories and about 8,000 crates of dog food. I lean into one crate, and yell out "Barbaro?" No one laughs. They either don't get it, or don't think it's funny. I choose to believe the former.
Not everyone's having fun. Cricket the Papillon has already taken a nip at one of the curious fans who put their face up against her cage. "She hates children," Cricket's owner tells me. "And they're fucking everywhere."
It's time to head out on the famous green carpet to see the judging. Waiting on the sidelines is a Neapolitan Mastiff, an enormous wrinkled beast who seems to be getting restless. His handler, to occupy him, wrestles with him a bit. She pushes him down on the floor, massages his side, pats his belly and OH MY GOD SHE'S GIVING HIM A HANDJOB.
Ok, maybe that was some accidental contact there. But the old man next to me gives me a knowing wink and says, "I'd lay down for that too." OK, the dog show is officially freaking me out.
I hurry to one of the judging rings, where it looks like they're holding a Scooby-Doo convention.
And if you look at that picture, scratch your head and say, "wait a minute, they're going to objectively select the best of a half-dozen identical Great Danes?" ... I'm right there with you, buddy. But the judge, after watching the dogs run in a circle and getting to third base with each in turn, manages to decide which one best exemplifies its species. I dunno. It looks like every other damn dog out there.
Some other things happened, I guess. I was too busy hitting up the table that was giving away free chocolate. Yes, at a dog show, they're giving out unlimited free samples of the stuff that KILLS DOGS.
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Posted 30 May 2007 - 05:41
I think the Motor Sport article says that the car that crashed in 1924 Stutz engined ran as a Fiat Special. The only Fiats I can find racing in Australia at that time were small engined
How easy I wonder would it be anyway for anyone to positively identify one of the only two S76 chassis? Can you imagine your own reaction if you were a keen European Edwardian Monsters enthusiast if you were casually told" Oh, that over there under the dust and rubbish. That's been there since 1924. It's a Fiat S76 chassis". OF COURSE you'd want to believe it, but would you?
If you type Fiat S76 into this forum's Search BB, you'll find some fascinating stuff. Can any of those contributors to that thread add stuff to this thread?
Posted 30 May 2007 - 11:10
Originally posted by john medley
If you type Fiat S76 into this forum's Search BB, you'll find some fascinating stuff.
I have just done that, and having read through lots of the postings, it is a classic endorsement of Colonel Capps' comments on another thread about just how much historical information is to be found on these threads. Nuff said.
Roger Lund
Posted 02 June 2007 - 13:31
Isn't anyone going to speculate on how all this came together?
Posted 04 June 2007 - 07:46
Is there a photo of the chassis as found in Australia?
Posted 04 June 2007 - 15:50
1. Nobody in Australia ever heard of this car being here before reading of it in very recent times.
2. The supposed race entry in 1924 cannot be substantiated by one of the most avid researchers of the period.
3. Someone who was close to the supposed owner of the car in Australia and who could reasonably be expected to know of the car or chassis if it existed here has never heard of it.
4. The present owner supposedly was able to identify an almost unique chassis while rummaging through a bunch of other cars and parts. No matter how unlikely it might be he was familiar with that chassis' detail and how imponderable it might have been that such a chassis might be in that pile of scraps.
5. The reward for finding such a rare and famous chassis, one that's known to have been missing for some sixty or more years, in some far-off dungheap would be immense.
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Posted 04 June 2007 - 16:48
Complete with FIA-verified history and log book.
Posted 04 June 2007 - 16:56
Posted 02 July 2007 - 10:29
I've never had the experience of being accused, tried and sentenced without an opportunity to defend myself before....and am amazed by the passions that can be inflamed and conclusions of "undoubted certainty" drawn from the briefest of information.
Familiar to every pub and bar across the globe are the local "experts" discussing, gossiping and generally deliberating on all manner of subjects both inside and outside their area of expertise. Complex world problems resolved in minutes by people who "don't know what all the fuss is about" and, "if only they had the chance", could tell the world leaders where they are going wrong! ......"hear hear"......I hear you cry... "what's wrong with that"......"what harm can it do".....long may it continue.
During the last few years, the growth of the internet has been a fabulous thing enabling vast quantities of information and opinion to pass freely round the world in seconds. Chat rooms and forums have become a sort of global pub or bar where deliberation and discussion can continue unfettered by opening hours. Except, unlike the pub, the information and opinion remains written down and archived long after the hangovers have faded.....indefinitely in fact....and before very long that "opinion" is incorporated into someone's "research" which soon becomes someone else's "fact", before finally being endorsed by the phrase ..."well it's got to be true...I read it on the internet"!
Having been e-mailed a link to this site by a friend, I don't intend to set out the whole story here .....that will be published with all the photos for everyone to see when I've finished the car......but think it important to at least correct some of the more significant misunderstandings.
1) There were certainly two cars built during the winter of 1910/11 not one.
2) They were NEVER fitted with an airship engine, which was the same capacity but an entirely different design.
3) One of the cars broke the world flying mile record in 1911, was sold to a Russian Prince in 1912, and exceeded the flying kilometre record (in only one direction!) in 1913.
4) The other car was kept by Fiat in Turin until being scrapped at the end of 1919 (standard Fiat policy for ALL obsolete racing cars after WW1), NOT mysteriously shipped to Mexico never to be seen again.
5) Neither of the cars went to America or exceeded 180 mph at Daytona beach.
How Prince Soukhanov's car made it to Australia after WW1 I have yet to establish, but make it it did, as I have post WW1 Australian photographs of the car after it's rebuild from what was then a hopelessly outdated ten year old design into a more modern racing special of the early 20's. Edwardian racing cars turning up post WW1 in the Antipodes is not so unusual, as I have similar period Australian photos of a Fiat S74, the Fiat "Mephistopheles", a Lion Peugeot racer, a Gobron Brillie, Sunbeam, etc, etc, even the remains of the Napier Samson turned up in Oz.
It was NOT Bob Chamberlain who found the chassis. Stuart Middlehurst, an inveterate early car enthusiast acquired the bent engineless rolling chassis in the 1950's of what he was told had been a Stutz engined Fiat racing special which 30 years before had crashed at Armadale in the early 20's practicing for a race to the coast and was thought to be a modified Fiat S74 racing car. Stuart apparently held no particular store by this and simply robbed the chassis of it's Rudge wheels and hubs (standard fitment to an S76) to restore one of his many beloved Hispano Suiza's.
The bent, rusty and by now very incomplete remains stayed with Stuart Middlehurst until the early 1980's when it was acquired by a Fiat enthusiast sure of it's S76 identity and determined to undertake the mammoth task finding the missing bits to restore the car. After 15 years the enthusiasm had waned as the realisation of the size of the task had dawned and after a great deal of research but very little work had been done, I acquired what was still just a rusty bent rolling chassis.....albeit without wheels and hubs!
It was not until the discovery of an S76 car engine, after years of perseverance and round the world trips, that the project became a viable rebuild, since which time original wheels, hubs and a myriad of smaller chassis fittings have also followed.
Is it really a Fiat S76?.......I'm certain it is! Long gone are that days when you could swing open the doors of an abandoned shed and find a complete unmolested WW1 racing car. The best I can do is piece together as many original S76 components as possible and restore the car to it's original specification. The engine certainly is S76, from the car which was scrapped in 1919, and the very distinctive rolling chassis is certainly original, certainly Fiat and the same size length and dimensions as an S76, which was unique to the S76, and quite different to that of an S74 and the standard touring cars of the era.
I won't be troubling the FIA........or any other esteemed body for that matter..... and apart from people knowing the facts, am not particularly troubled by what they think. Personally I'm absolutely delighted with what I've managed to acquire over the last 15 years, particularly the engine, and will continue unabated with the huge task of restoring an extremely authentic Fiat S76 constructed from just about every surviving original S76 part, from either of the two cars, that I can find.
Finally......something I can't resist ........ someone sarcastically questioned whether such a thing was likely to "just turn up" in a "dung heap" after so many years! The fact is that nothing "just turns up"!! Similar to my project, I know of an original Fiat S74 chassis, early Peugeot GP remains, a 1903 Paris Madrid Brasier engine, a Wolsley Beetle chassis, and many more fabulous componants, all of which have survived and are being cared for by enthusiasts in the hope that some other parts may one day come to light to enable the restoration of a complete car to become viable. Then and only then will the cars "Turn up"!......after all.......who's going to be interested in just a rusty bent old chassis......no matter how spectacular the car may have been in it's heyday?
Posted 02 July 2007 - 11:25
Welcome to the board and thanks for posting details of your fantastic project.
I personally can't wait to see it finished. It may be a bit dicey getting it around the hairpin at Mallory Park if you enter it in the Edwardian race though!
It would be fantastic if you could post some pictures to whet our appetites until then?!
I hope you are recovering well from your recent accident.
Posted 02 July 2007 - 16:12
Dad went to the motor club talk you did in Bristol (and which Tim Murray mentioned earlier) and was raving about the car for weeks afterwards. Good luck with the project.
Posted 02 July 2007 - 18:52
as my old friend the late robert sutherland [no stranger to rare old race cars] used to say..."a picture is worth a very long novel"
you can check with doug nye as he is our reigning "techspert" on image downloading.
looking forward to a few piccies.
edit; i'm not sure a parallel can be drawn here but i reread a few articles on bucky boudeman's restoration/recreation of the miller golden submarine...a very famous race car...powered by a automobile version of an aero engine... totally unique as a one off vechicle...raced into oblivion...well. you know the rest. bob southerland would [and did] send us miller guys poloroids of his finds as they happened..i still have a shot of the gwenda stewert front drive miller's rusty front axle tube thrown in the back of a pickup in a rainstorm in the UK the same day it was unearthed....bob was like that.
Posted 05 July 2007 - 09:23
For my part, too, I would much prefer to be regarded as someone with a healthy skepticism about something with so much yet to be proved than as someone resorting to or believing bar gossip.
Knowing that the likelihood of any 'Armadale to the coast race' ever having happened (or been planned) is so remote as to be ludicrous helps in this. After all, the Australian Grand Prix wasn't held at Phillip Island for nothing.
Posted 05 July 2007 - 17:54
Sometimes those who create these things are really good guys with their hearts in the right place and only their critical faculties in suspended animation.
Other times principals in these stories have been the most devious and deceptive charlatans with a smattering of interest and technical ability but otherwise little in mind beyond future commercial profit, hoping and determined to find someone who is mug enough to believe a pack of blatant lies, and who will buy, buy, buy. What other motive could there be for claiming that a wonderful replica is 'the original'?
In every proven case I have ever traced through from 'then' until 'now' there has always been a traceable background chronology and an evidence-string which withstands all inspection. Right now I'm not at all sure where this S76 story might stand in all this, and I haven't got the time to wield a shovel...but even a working S76 REPLICA would be a wonderful thing for someone to build - and for enthusiasts to see. It would just be nice - if that is the case - for an owner/constructor to declare as much.
Posted 07 July 2007 - 09:59
Posted 08 July 2007 - 12:02
Posted 08 July 2007 - 15:31
Maybe Duncan means Armidale in northern NSW?
And anyway, he doesn't mention a race from Armadale to the coast - he says the car crashed at Armadale practising for a race to the coast. A race from ?
Posted 08 July 2007 - 21:15
Look at the history. Accepting, by the way that it must have been Victoria because Armidale NSW was a very long way away (1000m or so) and Armadale WA much further.
Phillip Island only got to have races on public roads because somebody conned the Police into believing that it wasn't part of 'the mainland' and therefore the rules about racing on public roads didn't apply. Roll forward to 1936 and see what happened at Benalla, or 1939 and what happened in the parklands at Albert Park.
No public road races were allowed. Not even considered. This is nothing short of excrement of the bovine.
Posted 08 July 2007 - 22:00
I meant to say that there could well have been a reliability trial, which the uninitiated might call a 'race' - then as now.
How do I see what happened at Benalla in 1936? Or Albert Park in 1939?
Posted 09 July 2007 - 08:33
Reading about them is the only way, of course. A race meeting was planned for Benalla, practice was held and the police shut it down before the races began. Attempts by the LCCA to get permission to run races at Albert Park met with consistent brick walls.
Posted 09 July 2007 - 09:16
Posted 09 July 2007 - 10:44
I'd like to do that
Originally posted by Ray Bell
Reading about them is the only way, of course
Posted 09 July 2007 - 11:38
I would like to know
- the wheelbase of the chassis in question,
- why "there were certainly two cars built during the winter of 1910/11 not one".
Is this the engine from the Politecnico di Torino:
(click on the 4-cylinder)?
To what extent was the airship engine "an entirely different design"?
"The other car was kept by Fiat in Turin until being scrapped at the end of 1919 (standard Fiat policy for ALL obsolete racing cars after WW1)" is unclear.
According to the legend, Agnelli decided to scrap the racing cars in 1927, after the appearance of the tipo 806/406. Has this legend to be reversed?
Posted 09 July 2007 - 12:12
Originally posted by David McKinney
I'd like to do that
I think you might be right, David... no surprise, really...
I don't see any reference to it in any books I have here that I thought might. Blame John Medley, he must have told me about it. Unfortunately he won't be online for another week or so.
Posted 09 July 2007 - 13:11
No, seriously....I do hope that the verifyable truth emerges and that the promoter actually has resurected an old gem and saved it from oblivion........but I have my doubts...
Posted 09 July 2007 - 17:14
i think we're about done here.
Posted 31 October 2007 - 22:58
other historic desperates about various matters including the Fiat S76 story. I was told that Des Dillon, owner of some former Stuart Middlehurst stuff would be present the following day, and that as an old friend of Stuart Middlehurst's would perhaps be able to comment on this story. Unfortunately, the next day we didnt get to meet
Do we have any on TNF who can contact Des Dillon?
Are there any more questions and answers out there?
Posted 31 October 2007 - 23:19
There's a little unfinished business a couple of posts back about Benalla... David McKinney would like to know where he can find out more about it. Anything you found in your library visits? Other stuff in print?
Posted 01 November 2007 - 01:01
Most readily available resource is probably Terry Walker's "Fast Tracks" Pp 28-29 with map, description of circuit, race description, (confused) results, and current condition of the roads used in "Australia's First Race on the Mainland". Neither Terry Walker nor any contemporary source mentions the irate road-ploughing farmer. I know I and others have mentioned this previously in print, but I no longer recall the origins of the tale
Melbourne"Argus" April 14 1936 described the race, as did "The Referee" April 14 1936, both with follow up items re the lap scoring confusion that gave the race to Vin Moloney(MG Magna), from Barney Dentry(Riley), Les Murphy( MG P), Bob Lea Wright(Terraplane), Jack O'Dea(MG P), Merton Wreford(Riley Imp), Harry Beith(Terraplane), Lyster Jackson(Riley Imp), Ben Tinckham Bugatti T30),,Jack Phillips(Ford V8), and W Hope(Singer), Lea Wright with fastest time in this handicap race.
Posted 01 November 2007 - 01:08
Good information there, John, much more than I've ever seen!
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Posted 13 November 2007 - 15:08
1) Why not merge this thread with an elder one? It would make sense as both threads are on same subject, identically named and nicely complement each other.
2) Michael Sedgwick in his 1973 ''FIAT'' book states that Prince Soukhanoff was involved in the S76 venture from the very beginning – as a sponsor. But the more I think the more I doubt this... Seriously, why such a large company like Fiat would have needed financial backing from some private person to build an LSR car? I believe it wasn't so expensive back then compared to the latest projects. And Soukhanoff most probably appeared on the scene to purchase the car as late as in the winter 1912/13, having read of it in the press. Never being driven by Bordino at Brooklands in 1911 – that's for sure.
I remember my 3-years-old promise to search through the contemporary Russian newspapers with the aim to find out more about Soukhanoff/Fiat deal and his record attempts. I did five or six visits to our State Library and managed through the two titles, ''Moskovskiy listok'' and ''Russkiy invalid''. Both reported on motorsport events, although very briefly and with a lot of mistakes. I didn't find anything related, but then some issues were missing. Pre-WWI motoring magazines aren't still accessible since they were damaged by water almost 20 years ago, so my hopes to see them someday are continuously disappearing...
3) According to Duncan Pittaway ''there were certainly two cars built during the winter of 1910/11'' and the main visible difference between the two chassis would be the number of stub exhausts (two for #1, four for #2). I assume Mr. Pittaway knows what he's talking about as he was in contact with factory for car's drawings and history. But then almost all pictures posted here on TNF are of one and the same car, with two exhaust ports! To me it seems acceptable despite (as was already pointed out) the cars on photos differ in some details:
a) Radiator: polished on the early photos, painted red on the later ones.
b) Bonnet louvers on car's left side.
c) Chain wheel (occasionally covered with protective shield), both early and later version are shown:
Not quite unusual, actually. They could paint the radiator after it was smashed in some small accident. And change the shape of the bonnet in order to install the muffler necessary for public road drives. Then we have two pictures of the S76 with Prince Soukhanoff at the wheel – one with the polished radiator (from the book ''Vitesse illimitée'' by William Huon, posted by Jean-Maurice Gigleux, now disappeared) and the other with the painted (posted by me). Apparently it's the same car!
Good. But what about the second chassis? The only photo of it we have (from Sedgwick's book, posted by Hans Etzrodt, now disappeared) is dated 1916. Apart from the four exhausts the car has longer bodywork in the cockpit area, but the radiator, the louvers and the chain wheel look pretty much the same as on the first chassis in its latter (modified) form. Many questions are raising. Why there are no known earlier pictures of #2? And if the two cars were built at the same time, why they weren't photographed together? Finally, why the second car was never used for record attempts? According to Duncan Pittaway ''it was kept by Fiat in Turin until being scrapped at the end of 1919''. Pretty strange fate, I find.
4) A little bit on the pictures we had in an elder S76 thread. I'm still puzzled about the one from John Tennant's book ''Motor Racing: The Golden Age''. To be precise, about the words ''AVTOMOBILI F.I.A.T.'' painted on the wall. We agreed that this shot was taken at Turin. However it's AUTOMOBILI in Italian! And ''avtomobili'' is Russian word for ''automobiles'' written in Latin. I looked through Fiat advertisements in contemporary Russian press yet they never wrote it in such a way. I even went to Bolshaya Dmitrovka street in Moscow to see if the building where the Fiat showroom was located looks similar to that on the photo, but it doesn't. So, the mystery remains unsolved?
A small correction concerning one of the pictures posted by Jean-Maurice Gigleux, entitled ''In the works''. It's reversed! The exhausts are on the ''wrong'' side and the steering wheel is not seen, although it should be visible in this view.
Any comments please?
Posted 13 November 2007 - 21:40
1) I heartily endorse ru's suggestion for merging the threads: it would facilitate information (and opinion) sharing.
2) In the "other thread" there are several images which fail to load (red "x's"). Why? - other images load ok.
3) This S76 discussion could turn out to be as lively as that for the HealeySR.
4) Though nowt to do with this thread, I insert an image of an engine about which I'd like to know more.
Taken from "The Automobile Engineer's Year Book for 1914". Inserted here since there are those of you out there who would seem to take a keen interest in motoring things pre-1918, let alone pre-1970. I'm not aware of any vehicle it was used in. Please enlighten me.
If the thread/forum moderator wishes to relocate this latter, please go ahead.
Posted 13 November 2007 - 21:54
Originally posted by onelung
Very new to this BB, so please be gentle with me.
Okay, will do...
1) I heartily endorse ru's suggestion for merging the threads: it would facilitate information (and opinion) sharing.
I think that would fall within Twinny's guidelines for merging.
2) In the "other thread" there are several images which fail to load (red "x's"). Why? - other images load ok.
Several reasons...
The one who posted the photo has taken them from the webspace they were on.
The webspace provider has gone belly-up or changed the name of the webspace.
If on Imageshack, a year passing without a view will automatically eliminate it.
Things can go wrong on the internet!
3) This S76 discussion could turn out to be as lively as that for the HealeySR.....
Could do, indeed.
Posted 13 November 2007 - 22:20
Vintage car crash horror
The article describes Mr. Pittaway's overturning an 8.2 l GN Vitesse at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Hawthorn Memorial Trophies Meeting at Oulton Park on Nov. 7. It is hard to tell for sure from the article but Mr. Pittaway does not seem to have been seriously injured, although the car came to rest on top of him. I hope that is true and wish him a quick recovery from whatever injuries he sustained.
Posted 14 November 2007 - 09:04
That Hisso engine has the layout used in their aeroplane engines, later adopted by Wolseley (and via that, MG) who built them under licence.
Originally posted by onelung
4) Though nowt to do with this thread, I insert an image of an engine about which I'd like to know more.
Taken from "The Automobile Engineer's Year Book for 1914". Inserted here since there are those of you out there who would seem to take a keen interest in motoring things pre-1918, let alone pre-1970. I'm not aware of any vehicle it was used in. Please enlighten me.
The 60 h.p. H-S was similar IIRC but with a different bottom end.
Posted 14 November 2007 - 09:40
The accident happened in early June. I understand that Duncan, amazingly, suffered only a broken collar bone and mild concussion. The video of his accident is on YouTube:
Originally posted by gwk
The article describes Mr. Pittaway's overturning an 8.2 l GN Vitesse at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Hawthorn Memorial Trophies Meeting at Oulton Park on Nov. 7. It is hard to tell for sure from the article but Mr. Pittaway does not seem to have been seriously injured, although the car came to rest on top of him. I hope that is true and wish him a quick recovery from whatever injuries he sustained.
Posted 14 November 2007 - 11:29
That Hisso engine has the layout used in their aeroplane engines, later adopted by Wolseley (and via that, MG) who built them under licence.
Appreciate the response, but the H-S & Wolseley motors had in line valve arrangements (2 valves per cylinder?) - not the inclined arrangement shown in the image posted.
Don't want to get too far from the Talbot-Lago thread so won't elaborate on the problems which plagued the Wolseley motors as a result of the different bottom end arrangement (fork & blade cf staggered big ends).
Thanks again.
Posted 15 November 2007 - 07:58
Stuart Scarisbrick Middlehurst I knew far better. I have given his full name because it is a link to one of the early aero-engined monsters. Stuart was the namesake of his godfather Stuart Scarisbrick, by or for whom the car was built which Stuart saw when he visited Peter Helck about 20 years ago. Someone else will have knowledge of that car and its history.
When I came home at weekends while I was at Melbourne University, I often used to go round to Stuart's place where he was working on one of his cars (either the first Alfonso Hispano Suiza or the 37.2). It made a lot of sense to go round and help him and learn, because he had lights in his garage while I was rebuilding my first car, a 1927 Cadillac, under the wattle tree in my parents' backyard. We would talk about interesting cars or parts that became available, and at a time when most peole would not touch anything taht was not a complete running car with a good body, we started to buy such things in joint ownership. Of this I now have enough to rebuild a 6 cyl 6 litre cuff valve Peugeot. That should be enough to show you that I knew pretty much what Stuart had. The chain drive FIAT chassis he had was a fairly short wheelbase truck on solid rubbers. We knew of a correct engine in Hughes Wreckers in Coburg which had a price of 50 pounds on it; but when we went back for it they had been annoyed by someone who had been trusted in there and pilfered some bits, so a lot of stuff including that FIAT truck engine with its bronze crankcase had been scrapped. Stuart had a 1923 FIAT tipo 510 with Rudge 62 wheels . This is a 75 x 130 6 cyl sidevalve. We also had most of the engine from General Grimwade's Tipo 5, which had powered a sawmill at Longwarry for years. From memory Henry Formby and I picked this up from where it was lying on its side with no sump. I eventually traded it to USA for a good 1919 L-head Mercer engine. Stuart had basis of 7 or 8 Hispanos which still exist or are on the road, but I can assure you he had no S 76.
Arthur Lang was told of a big FIAT up over the Queensland border, model undefined, by an old bloke Lou Lang who had known it. Unfortunately for Arthur he died, which was a very inconsiderate thing to do.
I have a local 1918 motor magazine account of a man who was visiting here from Italy, being a description of his road impressions of an S 76, when he was taken for a ride by one of the race drivers, most likely Pietro Bordino, who also let him drive it. I shall ask my son if he can work out how to post this here for you. It does show that one of the cars was still in Torino at that date.
The best source of contempory racing FIAT photos and information I have seen is two lots in Horseless Carriage Club Gazette. Many of the photos came from the photo albumns of George Hill, who was driver an mechanic for FIAT and Mercer. It is prudent to study this material before one makes rash pronouncements of whether an S76 went to USA or not. There are underbonnet photos from both sides. There is also stated the location in Mexico where an engine was seen in the '20's running the pump of an oil well.
Regards, Ivan Saxton
Posted 15 November 2007 - 09:00
What an astonishing post. What astonishing first hand detail. What a bolt from the blue -- and after all this time.What a remarkable thing this Nostalgia Forum continues to be
As the person who started this thread, using the skimpy information then available to me, I was certainly interested in finding out more info and in the verification(or otherwise0 of some of the claims made.I note that some of the claims have not yet been addressed, but your post certainly tidies up much of the puzzle
Can I thank you most sincerely for your fascinating post, welcome you to this Forum, and encourage you to keep contributing
Posted 15 November 2007 - 10:18
The name of George Hill even brings into play Barney Oldfield and Harry Miller.
Hill was mechanic for Oldfield in the 1914 Vanderbilt/Santa Monica when their 450-inch Mercer finished second behind the Mercedes of DePalma and mechanic Tom Alley. Oldfield's comment regarding Hill: "The best man I ever had at my right".
In April 1919, Hill was "discharged as captain in the army air service and resumed his original position in the Miller sales department."
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Hispano drawings :
This Hispano OHC engine appeared in the autumn of 1913 (Paris Salon), and was to be used in the 1914 touring car range.
It was available as 2,6 liter (80x130 mm), 3,8 liter (90x150 mm) and 4,7 liter (100x180 mm).
According to Paul Badré, who wrote a book about Hispano, a rebored 2,6-liter OHC block (85x130 mm - just the block, not the complete engine) was mounted into the famous "Sardine" driven by Léon Molon in October 1913 in a Brooklands meeting and the Gaillon hillclimb. The Sardine was a single seater based on a 1912 Coupe de L'Auto chassis (Hispano did not start).
Posted 15 November 2007 - 11:40
This Hispano OHC engine appeared in the autumn of 1913 (Paris Salon), and was to be used in the 1914 touring car range.
Re post #48, very interested to read this - any source for me to follow up, please?
Was to be used .. did any of these engines actually go into cars sold to the public, or did WWI get in the way, perhaps?
Interesting connection here with Paul Badrè: I have a 1909 Sizaire et Naudin, and guess who wrote the definitive story of the Sizaire chapters (S-N, S-Berwick & S-Frères)! Btw - I was privileged enough to have a ride in Jean Badrè's Hispano Suiza not long ago: WOW - what a car!
I'll try to chase up the (Paul) Badrè book you refer to.
Posted 15 November 2007 - 12:01
Rgards, Ivan Saxton
Posted 15 November 2007 - 12:17
Posted 15 November 2007 - 12:31
Originally posted by john medley
Ivan Saxton
What an astonishing post. What astonishing first hand detail. What a bolt from the blue -- and after all this time. What a remarkable thing this Nostalgia Forum continues to be
As the person who started this thread, using the skimpy information then available to me, I was certainly interested in finding out more info and in the verification(or otherwise) of some of the claims made.I note that some of the claims have not yet been addressed, but your post certainly tidies up much of the puzzle
Can I thank you most sincerely for your fascinating post, welcome you to this Forum, and encourage you to keep contributing
I'm glad that Ivan has used his own name, too, that he hasn't resorted to a nom de keyboard that might cheapen his evidence. And that evidence is clear and well stated. Thanks, Ivan.
Posted 16 November 2007 - 09:08
The French magazine "La Vie Automobile" published a description of the engine on 11 October 1913 (no. 628, page 647 - "Les nouveaux modèles Hispano Suiza").
As usual when Hispanos were concerned, it was written by Charles Faroux, the chief editor of La Vie Automobile - long article, many words, poetic style, little content, except the drawings.
The engines (15 HP = 80x130 mm, 18 HP = 90x150 mm, 30 HP = 100x180 mm) were mounted (in combination with a leather cone clutch and 4-speed gearbox) in chassis with wheelbases of 266, 300 and 325 cm, and were offered and sold between the autumn of 1913 and the summer of 1914. The exact number is unknown and in any case very small - between fifteen and twenty 15 HPs and around ten of both larger types.
Hispano continued to offer the Alfonso/Alphonso (80x180 mm, T-head) in 1914, with a leather cone replacing the multi-plate clutch.
By the end of 1914 the OHC-head with inclined valves was replaced by the "commande directe" head, with the valves placed in-line directly below the camshaft.
Hispano/ACF/Coupe de L'Auto 1912 :
Hispano entered four cars (late entry/double fees) - #5 for Pilleverdier, #35 for Derny, #53 for Ibert, #58 driver open.
The bore/stroke dimensions were quoted as 85x132 mm in La Vie Automobile, and 85,5x130 mm in The Motor. Wheelbase 266 cm, track 137 cm, tires 875x105.
According to Louis Massuger (Marc Birkigt's right-hand man), Hispano tested three types of engines (the Coupe de L'Auto cars were restricted to 3 liters) :
- 69x200 mm, T-head, crankshaft in three ball bearings, similar to the 1910 Coupe de L'Auto winner;
- 85,5x130 mm, T-head, crankshaft in three plain/white metal bearings, + piston type supercharger;
- 85x130 mm (not 85x132), OHC-head (similar to the 1913/14 production engine), crankshaft in four ball bearings, + piston type supercharger.
The supercharged OHC engine gave the best results (around 100 hp) but was unreliable (deformed cylinder head), and Hispano cancelled the entries.
In the summer of 1913, the cylinder block of one of these Coupe de L'Auto cars was replaced by a rebored 1913/14 production block (80x130 rebored to 85x130 mm), while the crankcase with its four ball bearings was retained.
Posted 16 November 2007 - 23:12
I was interested to see Duncan Pittaway quoting some indepth background history but fails to provide the name of the actual person he got the chassis from ie the Fiat enthusiat the most current piece in the puzzle and maybe the Duncan Pittaway could post this information.
I also love the Simon Moore of Alfa fame expression he uses in the 2300 book for missing and lost cars about wanting to see "the before" photos!
But this will be a good mystery car to accurately put together its Australian history along with some of our other great cars ie 1908 Semmerling mercedes etc etc etc
terry mcgrath
The bent, rusty and by now very incomplete remains stayed with Stuart Middlehurst until the early 1980's when it was acquired by a Fiat enthusiast sure of it's S76 identity and determined to undertake the mammoth task finding the missing bits to restore the car. After 15 years the enthusiasm had waned as the realisation of the size of the task had dawned and after a great deal of research but very little work had been done, I acquired what was still just a rusty bent rolling chassis.....albeit without wheels and hubs!
Posted 17 November 2007 - 03:58
Terry, you and I have been looking at Australian motor sporting history for a long time now. I have no problem with the truck chassis story(if that is what it is) -- as long as it is made clear that this is what it is. What I have trouble with is at this stage is the race and accident history. I am not suggesting that my records are absolutely complete, but I think that they are reasonably close to complete. In those records I can find NOTHING that comes even close to the reported story of race record etc. Can you? What of the photographic record: you have a better chance than most of us in finding SOMETHING/ANYTHING. Can you? And what about the alleged road accident at Armadale(which Armadale I hear you cry)?
Among other things it just bothers me that it may appear that liberties may be being taken with Australian motor racing history -- and at least here on this forum we have some sort of obligation to get at the truth
Dont get me wrong: I would LOVE to see and hear The Beast of Turin in action, and I believe we should all admire Duncan Pittaway and his efforts to resuscitate The Beast in close to original form. At the same time I would like to see the evidence which he says supports his claims, and I would like to see accurate statements made about Australian motor sporting history
Postscript for Terry only: do you still have that info re the Sauers brothers' Alvis you were going to ring me about?
Posted 17 November 2007 - 12:04
Now, I know better than most people from long experience, that if you can get a chassis frame it is usually possible to eventually gather enough to rebuild a car. But this only applies to cars of which a reasonable number were made. If you can make a car useable with the wrong components, you stand a good chance of finding someone who has or knows what you need. (I was given a Mercer sales brochure by the man who sold me the Roamer Duesenberg, And by looking for anything Mercer I have gathered enough to rebuild four cars.)
That chassis as "a rolling chassis without hubs or wheels" I cannot visualise from what Stuart had here.
Now at that time we had here the 9 litre side valve Tipo 5 FIAT engine, and we never dreamed of shoehorning that into that light chassis. The occupants would have no difficulty with forward vision over that horseshoe firewall. I have digital photo of an S76 with driver and mechanic seated over the rear axle; and also under-bonnet shots of both sides of the engine which filled all the space. It must have been close to 5 ft high from top to bottom. All the really big expensive cars like Lee Falkiner's 90hp Napier went out to the wool-wealthy flat country like the Riverina. Nobody could be mad enough to own an S76 in billy goat country. It would not have enough gears. (Read the Road Impressions for which my son posted you the directions.) I hope I am not being unjustifyably skeptical. When people create provenance they tend to (be or) create pajeros. (detemine the Spanish meaning).
Ivan Saxton
Posted 17 November 2007 - 12:30
Originally posted by Ivan Saxton
.....Stuart was given the location of remains of an early Peugeot on a property in the rough country somewhere in a line between Armadale and the coast. I am fairly sure that it was Lyndon Hardman from Armadale who told him.....
Aha! There's an anomoly here...
Ivan, Lyndon Hardman, to whom I was speaking just two days ago, lives in Armidale NSW. This puts a different complexion on things, doesn't it? A NSW 'race to the coast' story emerging, not that it alters the amount of bovine excrement that appears to be extant.
I'm happy to phone Lyndon again and probe him further on this matter if anyone wants.


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Daniel, the reason I brought you into my office is to talk about your behavior outside of work.
As you know, when you were hired, you signed Office Max's Code of Conduct which stated that your actions outside of the sales floor were a reflection of our company values. Now I know you guys like to get together behind the old Hobby Lobby next door and do your little Fast and Furious routine between the loading docks. But the other day I got not one, but two separate complaints from the manager of Men's Wearhouse and Petco. They say you almost ran over one of their employees and that you've been playing this "Dubstop" or "Twostep" or whatever it is, at really loud volumes.
Now put yourself in my shoes. I've warned you about your behavior before, like smoking in front of the store on your break, and your inappropriate relationship with Teresa the cashier. The day her husband came to the store, I almost had to call the police. But this latest action is just going too far. I'm afraid I'm going to have to let you go. I'll escort you to the time clock and you'll still get paid on Friday. Please leave your shirt and badge on the table.
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