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General Category => Unusual Microcar Discussion => Topic started by: richard on October 08, 2011, 04:14:59 PM

Title: families first car
Post by: richard on October 08, 2011, 04:14:59 PM: well not exactly car or micro but on this very wild and wet saturday afternoon i found a picture that may still be interesting . our families first vehicle was not exactly micro !

the company still makes roads and 2 of my brothers are the directors and by the way grand dads middle name was not lightweight ;D
Title: Re: families first car
Post by: marcus on October 08, 2011, 04:26:40 PM: Triffic! I cannot quite make out the name on the traction Engine's name plate, xxxx xxxx and Son Leicestershire, or something?
Title: Re: families first car
Post by: richard on October 08, 2011, 04:39:36 PM: i believe it's john fowler and son leeds. my brothers have a much better print - i really must get one . note the man with the red flag . wasnt this done away with in 1907 - commemorated by the london brighton run . before that all motor vehicles needed to be preceeded by a man walking in front waving the red flag .
Title: Re: families first car
Post by: marcus on October 08, 2011, 04:45:28 PM: I thought it looked like a Fowler, but when I zoomed in it looked different, must have been the fuzziness. yup the infamous highways and Road locomotives Act 1865 (I think). We had legislation concerning motor vehicles 23 years before Mercedes benz "invented" them, and Trevithick's Puffing Devil taking to the roads 64 years earlier!
Title: Re: families first car
Post by: Rob Dobie on October 08, 2011, 04:48:31 PM: I think it was made by Thomas Green & Son, Leeds, Yorkshire.
Title: Re: families first car
Post by: marcus on October 08, 2011, 04:50:13 PM: Certainly the first letter of the surname does look a bit curved, like a G on my monitor, sounds possible.
Title: Re: families first car
Post by: richard on October 08, 2011, 05:04:52 PM: think your right rob - my prints very poor i am afraid . the photography in those days was astounding ! on the original you can see individual blades of grass _ progress eh !
Title: Re: families first car
Post by: richard on October 08, 2011, 05:13:05 PM: i wonder what it says on the plate over the front axle - it does look like LIGHTWEIGHT ;)
Title: Re: families first car
Post by: Jonathan Poll on October 08, 2011, 08:01:22 PM: Quote from: lightweight dickie on October 08, 2011, 05:13:05 PM
i wonder what it says on the plate over the front axle - it does look like LIGHTWEIGHT ;)

I saw thatv ;)
Title: Re: families first car
Post by: Big Al on October 09, 2011, 01:48:03 PM: Quote from: lightweight dickie on October 08, 2011, 04:14:59 PM
our families first vehicle was not exactly micro !

the company still makes roads and 2 of my brothers are the directors

Gee'us a job.
Title: Re: families first car
Post by: richard on October 09, 2011, 02:00:47 PM: ta mac
Title: Re: families first car
Post by: Rob Dobie on October 09, 2011, 02:16:34 PM: Hoots Mon!
Title: Re: families first car
Post by: richard on October 09, 2011, 05:27:24 PM: here you go rob
pic as per flikr.com great pics of almost everything - those who haven't been there are missing something , i think

http://www.flickr.com/photos/billogs/999014818/
Title: Re: families first car
Post by: richard on October 11, 2011, 05:59:02 PM: it seems that the funnel stack may be the mounting point for the number plate - ending in IGH i think . what date did number plates start ?