Friday, May 12, 2017
Thursday, May 11, 2017
Why make bollards when you can finally find a use for old cannons?
This is the former gateway to the warehouses and offices of the supply dept that handled food and rum, it opened in 1742. Two ornamented white stone arches linked by iron lampholder. Over each arch is an ox skull and garlands, and a hollowed medallion with intertwined anchors. In front of gateway are four 18th-c. cannons as bollards.
When cannons were no longer fit to be used on warships, they were buried breech-down to protect the brickwork of the gatehouse from damage by carts and other vehicles.
Slightly overside cannon balls were hammed into the bores to permanently seal them
The British Navy's Victualling Yard at Grove Street, Deptford. The navy's other victualling yards in Gosport and Plymouth were supplied from here. Such a major supply operation required more than warehousing, though, and there were also abattoirs, pickling houses, brewhouses, ship's biscuit works, a cooperage, a rum distillery, and mills on the 35-acre site.
England has also used a lot of captured French cannons as bollards around the docks and piers. Click the link, it's full of info about the locations
http://people.ds.cam.ac.uk/mhe1000/bollards/cannonbollards.htm
http://pmsa.cch.kcl.ac.uk/pmsa-database/927/
http://carolineld.blogspot.com/2009/08/royal-victoria-victualling-yard-1.html
this one is even marked on Google maps as French Cannon Bollard, on Bankside, at Southwark Bridge, London
Miss Fifinella! Cool new nose art photo, colorized
https://www.facebook.com/coloursofyesterday/photos/a.320791804759852.1073741831.314895325349500/625476824291347/?type=3&theater
Of course, the Fifinella was a female gremlin that gave airplane crews lots of problems, created by Rould Dahl and animated by Disney studios
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2016/09/gremlin-gus-ii-has-that-name-due-to.html
Steve finds the darndest things, "Trublpruf" tires on a Fordson tractor
Photo by FCA photographer Leslie Jones, 1950
Remember Trublpruf tires? From the Lambert Tire Company
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/01/trublpruf-tires-by-lambert.html found on Shorpy years ago
Steve is BACK! And he finds the coolest stuff! Like this twin to the Pan Am bus I posted last year
How does he DO that? Folks, I have know him 5 years and I still have no idea! I suspect PFM
Last spring I posted this Curtis Aerocar
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2016/07/wow-lot-of-cool-happening-in-this-1931.html
Wednesday, May 10, 2017
street car diner, gas station, and route 66 all in one photo
maybe not a diner, maybe just an office, which is a cool idea too... a prefab ready made cool little building.
Steve took a closer look at the gas pumps (great to have you back Steve!) and says they are
"2 Red Crown gas pumps, with a Standard White Crown in the middle!
The two on the left appear to be Wayne electric clock face pumps (circa 1929), while the one on the right looks like a Wayne computing pump (circa 1935)
Sikorsky S-38A amphibious airplane in 1930... interesting design
https://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelryerson/26276313744/
but not as cool looking as the Sikorsky P 40 http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2016/07/wow-lot-of-cool-happening-in-this-1931.html
Somehow Steve came across the Pan Am version with a slightly more aero upper nose
Thanks Steve!
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