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Boy + Daimler, 1977
Another old photo scanned from the family archives! This is my son, Nick, taken when he was three years old in, 1977. The car is a 1956 Dailmler Conquest Century, photographed during the period of its resurrection!
Although rather ponderous by modern day standards, it was a delight to drive, & had the Daimler pre-selector gearbox & fluid flywheel, which all Daimlers had been fitted with since the 1920's, torsion bar suspension, & Girling hydro-mechanical brakes. The engine was a 2.5L OHV six, and returned a fuel consumption of around 22mpg, quite good for a car that weighed not far short of two tons! It was subsequently sold, for not a lot of money, I recall!
Nick, I am delighted to say, is still vey much around, and is now a design engineer with a specialist British engineering company!
I can't be absolutely certain what camera I took this with, almost certainly a Mamiya C22 with a 105mm lens, again, almost certainly, on Kodak Tri-X, but it could just have been a Zeiss Ikon Nettar, but looking at it, the perspective is a bit compressed for a 75mm lens. Scanned from an old 5"x 5" B&W print, @300dpi on an Epson V500, & tidied up in Gimp.
Boy + Daimler, 1977
Another old photo scanned from the family archives! This is my son, Nick, taken when he was three years old in, 1977. The car is a 1956 Dailmler Conquest Century, photographed during the period of its resurrection!
Although rather ponderous by modern day standards, it was a delight to drive, & had the Daimler pre-selector gearbox & fluid flywheel, which all Daimlers had been fitted with since the 1920's, torsion bar suspension, & Girling hydro-mechanical brakes. The engine was a 2.5L OHV six, and returned a fuel consumption of around 22mpg, quite good for a car that weighed not far short of two tons! It was subsequently sold, for not a lot of money, I recall!
Nick, I am delighted to say, is still vey much around, and is now a design engineer with a specialist British engineering company!
I can't be absolutely certain what camera I took this with, almost certainly a Mamiya C22 with a 105mm lens, again, almost certainly, on Kodak Tri-X, but it could just have been a Zeiss Ikon Nettar, but looking at it, the perspective is a bit compressed for a 75mm lens. Scanned from an old 5"x 5" B&W print, @300dpi on an Epson V500, & tidied up in Gimp.