The Vintage Planes, Trains and Automobiles Picture Show

I think the owner of this engine took full notice of the brass warning plate :laughing:

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A lovely Caterpillar D8H at Woolpit Steam this year. Around 36,000kg and under 300bhp.

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The Thalatta, a Thames sailing barge built in 1906, on the Orwell earlier this year

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Warming up on a cold night…

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Hawker P1182 (Harrier predecessor, experimental aircraft). Science Museum, London.

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Originally named the Kestrel. Is that one?

Yes, that’s the one. Also just realised that it was the P1127, not P1128……

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What plane is that. The twin props make me think Mosquito …

ME410 Hornet? Although in RAF (captured?) markings.

ATB, J

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De Havilland Hornet. Came after the Mosquito.

steve

It’s the LAHC’s Mosquito at Eat Kirkby in Lincolnshire, having an engine run a few months back. Not flying yet and it’s something of a bitsa, however plans to get it flying continue!

Very nice. Its so good that there are enthusiasts about that will take the time to make these things happen.

Don’t get much more vintage than a horse and cart

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Not quite vintage but going through some photos and found my first bike., BSA c15 and my favourite car I’ve owned…



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The only sort of Audi I’d want to own :slightly_smiling_face:

We had a ride on a horse and cart on the island of Sark in the channel isles. I had to muse at people clambering to sit by the driver……behind the horses backside. Inevitably they got more than they bargained for.

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No sh#t ?

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C15 must be vintage by now?

It’s 1960 so yes deffo vintage!:rofl: wish I’d kept it but wanted a Honda 550/4 so chopped it in… it went to Japan apparently.

At the National Classic Car show in November I asked the Quattro owners’ club members if my nephews could open and shut the doors just to see what it used to be like. I feel sure that’s the same mechanism as you’d have had on your Audi. We did the same at the Mercedes owners’ club with a 1981 SEL. There was something about the locks and hinges back then that feels like it exceeds what we get today. I don’t know if that’s driven by regulations or cost cutting.

I almost thought about not sharing my lock-obsessive behaviour but then remembered which on-line community this is!

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