Sidecar Racer

8 hours ago, monkeysarefun said:

I saw this parked up on the side of the Melbourne to Sydney freeway on the way to the shops earlier today. It consisted of 3 pulling trucks, and 2 behind to push.

 

Internetting just now shows its the third of three transformers  that form part of the Waratah Super Battery facility being built on the Central coast, north of Sydney. 

 

 

The  component and traction units all up are 125m long and weigh 477 tonnes. Built in Victoria, its a 1005km trip to its destination, travelling at nighttime at 40km/hr.

 

I imagine reverse-parking would be a fine art!

 

 

 

 

 If you like to see that sort of action just do a Youtube search for Australian heavy haulage .

2 hours ago, Dunsignalling said:

The tyre, I'd guess, has been fitted, to ensure good traction for rural motoring on 1920s roads, the season of the year, or both.

 

 I thought similar but couldn't be bothered to type it all out .     😎

6 minutes ago, Sidecar Racer said:

 

 

What interests me on  Dave's photo one is the rear tyre compared to the front ones ,

it looks like one that would be called Town and Country in my apprenticeship years in the mid 60's ,

completely different to the ones on the machine in the fact page .

 Something else that I've just spotted in the photo's of the linked page is the fact that the rear wheel

has a sprocket on either side and off different sizes , Make me wonder if  the rear wheel could be turned

and so give a different final drive ratio .

I should have read the article properly , explains the reason why the two .

9 hours ago, DaveF said:

Does anyone know what car this is?  It's a photo of my grandmother in either her car or grandfather's in the early 1920s.  Someone had attempted to hand tint it at some time.

 

 

David

 Further to the replies above I will go with this , a 1920 Morgan Grand Prix ,

https://www.hagerty.com/media/member-stories/this-1920-grand-prix-three-wheeler-is-as-morgan-as-it-gets/

What interests me on  Dave's photo one is the rear tyre compared to the front ones ,

it looks like one that would be called Town and Country in my apprenticeship years in the mid 60's ,

completely different to the ones on the machine in the fact page .

2 hours ago, jamie92208 said:

 

 

 

 

 A google for French snakes comes up with this as the most likely one ,

 Western whip snake ,     https://wildlifeinfrance.com/snakes-france/western-whip-snake-in-france

10 hours ago, OnTheBranchline said:

Or a stunt double of Putin.

 Even Lewis didn't know for sure .  see at 1-28 and on a bit .

2 hours ago, The White Rabbit said:

with some foods, smaller/younger specimens are sweeter/more tender. I'm not sure about oysters, is size linked to quality?

 

 

With the anecdotal use of oysters I wonder if quantity would be linked to size .     😎

9 minutes ago, phil_sutters said:

That is because of the spacing I assume. GIG 1300 would be OK??

Even that is a no go Phil , plate rules here including this ,

The letters not used on UK number plates are the letter I as it looks like the number 1, or the letters O and Q as they can be confused with the number 0. Although there is one exception to this rule, as the letter O is used for Oxford in reference to the memory tag system .

https://www.octanefinance.co.uk/blog/uk-number-plates-explained

5 hours ago, Sidecar Racer said:

 

 Cue  @J. S. Bach  giving us a head scratch emoji .   😎

 Here you go, it's from an old game show , 

1 hour ago, Dave Hunt said:

We get our bacon from a market trader

 

 

 I'm pretty sure mine comes from pigs , but hey , whatever floats your boat , or flies your plane .

22 hours ago, Sidecar Racer said:

 And in a similar vein .

1 hour ago, Hibelroad said:

Did you know Micheal Miles has died?

No

Bong

 

 

Now that really is an ancient joke. 
Anyone under 80 may need to do some Googling. 

 Cue  @J. S. Bach  giving us a head scratch emoji .   😎

27 minutes ago, 30368 said:

 

Yes agreed I also like the registration Gigi could be very naughty...

 

Kind regards,

 

30368

 But not a valid plate .

4 hours ago, TheQ said:

Going back in my family one couple had 24 surviving children out of 26 births an incredible success rate for a mining family.

 

 The result of long dark nights and no TV.