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Looks like a stylized "G" little bit like Ginetta. May be G for Gauntlett enterprises?
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No Gerard, Bob has already told us what it is.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/digita...os/29610238414 |
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The lines left on the ground filmed from the drones are absolutely dead strait for miles ! |
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Yup, being a farmer’s son and still having friends in the community it’s obviously a (cliché) different world nowadays!
If anyone’s watched a ‘vintage’ ploughing match, it’s quite a skill to keep in a straight line without any tech help. What I didn’t realise until working for a plough importer many years ago was that the manufacturer made special ploughs for the ‘sport’....... |
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16 Dec 2019, 06:25 (Ref:3946935) | #6157 | ||
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Re the badge… Mon Ami Robert, did you really spot the badge from the video or you're living in Hungerford area? Should call you hawk eye…
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16 Dec 2019, 08:30 (Ref:3946940) | #6159 | ||
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Facebook link says its Richard Gauntlett but its not really important.
Jaguar transportation for Christmas trees already famous: https://www.etsy.com/fr/listing/6481...e-de-noel-1957 |
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He would be completely amazed at todays farming where one man can do all that work compared with him and his many co-workers back then ! |
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Our family first tractor (that replaced the horse my mother was in charge of) was a Fordson nicknamed ‘Smokey Joe’, and complete with iron wheels. In the early 50s it was replaced by a new B.M.B President, which was far more advanced and was started on petrol before the operator changed over to TVO. As an aside, the registration number it had is still in the family, now on my car..... The tractor is still around as well.
Never heard of BMB?- http://tractordata.co.uk/bmb/ |
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There's a ploughing match near us every year with different classes for different ages of tractor (as well as a horse category). I didn't realise how competitive it gets - they were out there measuring things with rulers!
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Anyone that is interested in the old Spa circuit (that you can still drive as it is normal road), on the F1 forum there are a couple of interesting videos. First from 1962, Lucien Bianchi in a DB4 Zagato describing the circuit as he drives round.... (Post 17 in the thread) https://tentenths.com/forum/showthre...44#post3946944 |
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Did you notice the date that thread was started? But yes a great piece of history.
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Re the picture of the BRDC badge in Post 6149, has any one noticed that it has the name Mackay Fraser & the No. 802 on it. If this was issued to Herbert Mackay-Fraser what did he do to become a BRDC member? One start in a French GP in a P25 BRM and a retirement would not qualify him to be a member. He hardly set the world on fire in sports cars. So is there another Mackay Fraser or how did he become a BRDC member.
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16 Dec 2019, 18:30 (Ref:3947015) | #6166 | ||
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Good question. You’ll have to put your Sherlock Holmes deerstalker on! Nothing to do with that but I see the ‘Aston Martin Autosport BRDC’ award winner gets membership as part of the prize.....
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Herbert MacKay-Fraser was a popular and jovial American whose racing career in Europe was tragically short. Upbringing and early racing career Born on his father’s Brazilian coffee plantation, he had already been a Wyoming rancher before discovering motor racing relatively late on. That was having moved to California where he began to race a Jaguar XK120 and Ferrari 750 Monza sports car in SCCA races. "Mac" raced in Brazil for a short time before moving to London to further his ambitions in the sport. It was during 1956 that he started to attract attention. He shared Ivor Bueb’s Lotus 11-Climax in that year’s Reims 12 Hours and they led before stripping second and third gears to retire. That performance established the American and earned a works drive for the Le Mans 24 Hours. He shared Colin Chapman’s Lotus 11-Climax but again retired late in the race. Works Lotus driver and Grand Prix debut A fulltime Lotus driver in 1957, he won the 1100cc class at Le Mans and began racing a Lotus 12-Climax in Formula 2 events. Third place in the Lavant Cup was lost when he crashed at Goodwood’s chicane but he finished second to Jack Brabham at Brands Hatch. With Lotus a year away from graduating to Formula 1, MacKay-Fraser made his Grand Prix debut in a BRM P25 at the 1957 French GP. He qualified in 12th position at Rouen-les-Essarts and ran sixth during the early laps before his engine failed. His was a promising bow but he was killed just a week later when his streamlined Lotus 11-Climax crashed at high speed during the F2 Coupe Internationale de Vitesse at Reims. Not too Shabby RBS! |
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16 Dec 2019, 19:03 (Ref:3947018) | #6168 | ||
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Not Shabby agreed but hardly BRDC qualifying performance is it.
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I seem to recall that winning an International race of over 100 miles qualified, if so a class win at Le Mans aught to fill the bill. However, a lot of Saloon car drivers are members and few of them have competed in a race more that 30 odd miles.
Any way RB Mac Fraser was well thought of by us lads back in the 50's so he was not a complete unknown. |
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16 Dec 2019, 19:40 (Ref:3947021) | #6170 | ||
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Yet again tenths educates! Sadly we’ll never know how successful he could have become. Coincidentally I did a bit of research on the D Type that started the badge query, curious as to who owns it now. Seems the chassis number has caused some controversy in the past.....
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Well, suggestion from the ever reliable internet is that the car built with that XKD # never left the factory in one piece, but was broken for spares. Many moons later it came up for sale complete, but then someone else claimed to have the chassis / tub with that XKD number. Then it turned out that another car was in circulation also with the same number! That was later dismissed as a replica (or con ). Conclusion is that the car pictured is a genuine D Type, but like many old race cars, not necessarily consisting now of all the parts it was originally built with!
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17 Dec 2019, 06:39 (Ref:3947101) | #6174 | ||
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At least the Christmas tree looks authentic…
Now we have a good story about the badge owner, how this one landed on bauble's computer? Or table. |
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