RUMCars Forum
General Category => Unusual Microcar Discussion => Topic started by: richard on July 14, 2012, 02:10:37 pm
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pulling together a thread or two from Marcus' off topic spot . i am reminded of a photo , i saw many years ago , of 5 or 6 Heinkel Irelands travelling through North Wales on the flatbed trailer of a steam train . Then presumably a common occurrence of importing the cars from Dundalk , Eire through Holyhead port in Wales and thus by train into England .
Who has a copy of the photo ? was it in a book or a copy of Cruiser News the HTOEC mag ?
surely worth revisiting ?
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I would like to see that!
I wonder too if there are any photos of Heinkels being loaded into or unload from DC3 Dakotas when they were flown from Germany to Britain.
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Sorry, I dont know that picture :(
About the plane, reminds me of this...
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Ah yes, the beautifully ugly but still very appealing Bristol Type 170 Freighter, I made two Airfix models of it when a lad, and another a few years ago. They used to fly over my Grandparent's house in Lymington, Hants, always a great sight. That photo is I believe from the Bubblecars to Venice event and quite familiar.
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Different Nobel. Easiest way to tell is the colour, but also the stickers and aluminium trim!
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Oh yes, my mistake! Also the Bristol in the "Venice" photo is the later Mk 32 "Super-Freighter", with a longer fuselage and different loading bay doors, but then you already knew that!
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I thought Heinkels on a train sounded familiar as well, but I think this was the image I was thinking of. From this page http://www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk/page_id__5426_path__0p115p186p466p.aspx (http://www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk/page_id__5426_path__0p115p186p466p.aspx)
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interesting did ALL isettas leave by train ? no the Heinkel picture is much less clutterred and there are less cars . still interesting lets see some more micro's being shifted
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Nice Isetta photo. Edit, I believe they all left by train as they were built in railway buildings without road access.
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wish i new how to cut and paste just the photo from an article >:(
my second pic was so bad i left it to rob's - much better
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now that was a REAL micro . 122cc , only 12lb pressure in the tyres - no suspension , perspex screen and a hand operated windscreen wiper - up and over the Alps two up . WHAT an adventure
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Bit spotty, 'cos it's a copy of your small pic.
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thanks rob - i deleted my embarrassingly bad photo.
next question which built micro looks to share the same screen as this plane :D
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The first model Meyra, with only half the front door opening!
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i MEANT to say British built - oops . well spotted marcus but not the one i meant
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UK Lloyd?
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one that perhaps rob and i would think of first praps - only 5 known survivors - unless anyone knows better ;)
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Rytecraft Scootercar then.
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are you being deliberately obtuse marcus ?
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How strange it is that a lot of these topics end up talking about the Gordon. ;D
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praps it's me thats the common factor :(
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only 5 known survivors - unless anyone knows better ;)
There are six I believe.
Jeans, yours, Richard, Gordon Fitzgeralds, Paul Renolds of Dorset, Roger Gunter of Prudhoe and one found in Newcastle a few years ago. I have photos of them all somewhere. Will send copies to you when I find them.
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isn't the prudhoe one the newcastle one ? i thought it was
prudhoe is more or less in newcastle , or at least just outside
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Sorry, I dont know that picture :(
About the plane, reminds me of this...
' The guy with ladder has naffed off with some bint in an Isetta. How are we meant to get down?'
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sorry rob . re-read the article in RUM mag and as you said the newcastle one was a new one making it now 6. these RUM's are so "common" :)
and i thought i owned the only LHD Bond A in uk until finding the Bubblecar Museum has one too !Finding myself roughly in the area next friday 20th july i intend to visit the museum for the first tiime and photograph and measure the car for reference
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praps it's me thats the common factor :(
I would never call you common, Richard, as you live on the Wirral.