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The winter of 1930-31 was a bittersweet time for Howard Marmon. His pièce de resistance, the Marmon Sixteen, had debuted to great acclaim at the Chicago Auto Salon in November and the following month he received a medal for outstanding achievement from the Society of Automotive Engineers, awarded for the Sixteen’s magnificent engine. Although a second shift was added to the assembly line when full production began in April, there was trouble at the Marmon Motor Car Company. As with other luxury car makers, its profits had turned to deficits as the Depression deepened, and two rounds of pay cuts were followed by layoffs of most engineering staff. What had once been a bright future had become very, very uncertain.
Howard Carpenter Marmon was the son of an Indianapolis manufacturer of milling machinery. With an engineering degree from the University of California, he joined the family firm, becoming vice president and chief engineer within three years. Enamored of all types of machinery, he built a car of his own design, completed in 1902. Remarkable for its use of full pressure lubrication, it had an air-cooled power train with no universal joints, made possible by mounting the running gear on a separate subframe. He built six cars in 1904, unusual in their use of aluminum castings in their bodies, and sold them to neighbors.
By 1909, Marmon was in full production of water-cooled cars, including the Model 32 that would be built for seven years. In fact, it was a Model 32, called the “Wasp,” that garnered international acclaim for the company when it won the inaugural Indianapolis 500 in 1911. The Marmon 34 of 1916 made even greater use of aluminum, but teething problems with its design and Marmon’s lack of business acumen hindered sales. Marmons became more conventional during the 1920s, and the car operation was spun off from Nordyke and Marmon, the machinery firm. Although well built, Marmons were nearly indistinguishable from other prestige cars of the decade, and sales were mediocre.
In 1926, Howard Marmon began work on his masterpiece, a sixteen-cylinder luxury car. The heart of the new model was a compact even-firing 45-degree V16 of 491 cubic inches. Overhead valves were pushrod-operated, and the aluminum block had wet cylinder liners. Its operation was so smooth that a light flywheel was possible, which in turn facilitated rapid acceleration. The valve gear was carefully designed to be compact and well lubricated, making it nearly silent, despite mechanical adjustment. The Sixteen developed 200 brake horsepower, rode a chassis with a 145-inch wheelbase and was clothed in attractive Art Deco- inspired bodies.
Although the bodies were built by LeBaron, and carried LeBaron’s prestigious cowl tags, it was a father and son team of industrial designers who penned the car’s svelte lines. Credit is conventionally given to Walter Dorwin Teague Sr.; while it was his son who sketched the lines and details that ultimately entered production. A student at MIT, Walter Dorwin Teague Jr. was a gifted designer who would go on to design some of the most influential automobiles of his time.
Magnificent though it was, the Marmon Sixteen was not ready for production until early in 1931, by which time Cadillac’s V16 had been on the market for over a year. Initial prices were as low as $5,200, $750 less than the equivalent Cadillac, but Cadillac had a head start and the advantage of a larger business base. The first Marmon Sixteen customer did not take delivery until April 1931. For the year, just over 200 Sixteens were produced, out of some 5,700 total sales. The total for 1932 was just ten percent of an underwhelming 1,365 total cars, from which it seems odd that the eight cylinder cars were discontinued entirely for 1933. It is not hard to understand, though, that with just 86 Sixteens sold that year, about a third of which must have been leftover ‘32s, Marmon was in receivership by the first of May.
200bhp, 490.8 cu. in. overhead valve V16 engine, three-speed manual transmission, suspension via front and rear semi-elliptic leaf springs, solid front axle, live rear axle, four-wheel vacuum-assisted mechanical drum brakes. Wheelbase: 145"
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This Lego miniland-scale Marmon 1932 S I X T E E N Convertible Sedan has been created for Flickr LUGNuts' 96th Build Challenge - The 8th Birthday, titled - 'Happy Crazy Eight Birthday, LUGNuts' - where all previous build challenges are available to build to. This model is built to the the 31st Build Challenge - 'Kickin' it Old School' - for vehicles built prior to 1950.
After digging for 40 minutes I found the trash. After literally removing an entire dumpster of trash.
Canon Powershot A10 with 2.8-4.8/5.4-16.2 lens.
Just for fun, up to date in 2001: 1.3 Megapixels (1280x960), no video mode, ISO 100 fixed, jpg-only, CF-card, 4 Mignon cells. There is still a delay between pressing the shutter button and taking the picture, action photography would be somewhat cumbersome.
The image quality is amazingly good, especially the colors. It could be possible, that the lens (35 to 105 mm in 35mm world) is responsible for that.
The camera requires an extra battery (CR2016) for the clock and keeping the settings in memory. There were still pictures on the CF-card, and the last one was taken 9 years ago, surprizingly the clock was more or less right in time. I've made the experience that clocks in digital devices, even in expensive ones, are running out of time after a month already.
Compacted trash. Here is the problem. I thought that bag was the bag I needed. It was NOT. This was from earlier. The trash gets pushed I of the dumpster and the. Shoved as hard as possible. Older trash is not as destroyed as it’s moved up and falls over. The bag I am looking for is completely smushed and buried in trash. But I had to find it.
Story: After I put up the video of my retouching on the Jonnie Walker shot I got a meeting with a company that makes cosmetics. Since I didn't really have any cosmetics in my book I spent some quality time shooting specifically for that meeting. This was actually the shot that I started with. I knew I wanted a shot of a compact and this was basically the most difficult compact to shoot I could find. The entire thing is mirrored.
Lighting: The compact is sitting on a white seamless and there are two lights. There is a bare dynalite 2040 head from camera left providing the hard shadow. Then there is another bare head from camera right pointed to the seamless and that is what is providing the light fall off for the top. If the seamless is one color then the chrome doesn't look chrome so you have to get some light fall off. In addition to the two lights there is also a reflector right in front and a reflector overhead. The camera is just able to get between the two reflectors which is why the compact is small on the sensor in the before shot. I really needed that bit of light on the edge around the actual makeup.
Ich habe des öfteren darüber nachgedacht, warum Hunde ein derart kurzes Leben haben, und bin zu dem Schluss gekommen, dass dies aus Mitleid mit der menschlichen Rasse geschieht; denn da wir bereits derart leiden, wenn wir einen Hund nach zehn oder zwölf Jahren verlieren, wie groß wäre der Schmerz, wenn sie doppelt so lange lebten?
(Walter Scott)
My recently acquired Walther PPK .32 ACP pistol.
Just for the curious, PPK stands for Polizei Pistole Kriminal Modell or Police Pistol Detective Model. It was first issued in 1931 in 7.65mm (.32 ACP) and made to be used for undercover police work. They were also issued to German military police, Luftwaffe and Nazi Party members during WWII. Hitler committed suicide with his PPK. Also famous for being James Bond's sidearm.
Most PPKs in the US were made under license by INTERARMS or Smith & Wesson (which is who made this PPK) due to laws on importing firearms this small.
(Note: This is a PPK and not a PPK/S, which uses a larger frame to hold an extra round of ammo)
The Sandugo was a blood compact, performed in the island of Bohol in the Philippines, between the Spanish explorer Miguel López de Legazpi and Datu Sikatuna the chieftain of Bohol on March 16, 1565, to seal their friendship as part of the tribal tradition. This is considered as the first treaty of friendship between the Spaniards and Filipinos. "Sandugo" is a Visayan word which means "one blood".
One of the advantages of being a regular rental customer appears to be that sometimes one gets a rather large compact car.
I don't usually rent compacts, as they are not quite comfortable enough for the seven plus hours driving to and from the diocesan office in Kansas City (around 340 miles return trip).
I'm only going to Carthage and on to Joplin this weekend so I thought a $9 per day compact would suit the bill and be good stewardship too. This is what they gave me :)
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A pair of GX85s with the 12-35 and 35-100 Vario collapsing zooms along with the Oly 12/2, Panny 20/1.7, and Panny 8mm fisheye. Still weighs close to four pounds though!
My compact hood on the left ($30), the standard Zeiss one on the right (£48)
My compact hood ($30) for the Voigtlander 35/1.4 Nokton and the Voigtlander 40/1.4 Nokton rangefinder lenses.
Designed and tested for full frame use, the hood is produced on demand at my Analogue Robot store and twists straight onto the existing bayonet mount.
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Frame:*VELO ORANGE* piolet
Wheels:*VELOCITY* blunt ss rim × *VELO ORANGE* disc hub
Tire: *PANARACER* gravel king SS
Handle:*NITTO* LOSCO bar
Stem:*NITTO* V-5 stem
Saddle:*BROOKS* cambium
Crank:*SUGINO* mighty tour crank × *WOLF TOOTH COMPONENTS* drop stop chainring
Brakelever:*PAUL* love lever compact
Headset:*WHITE INDUSTRIES* external headset
Housing:*NISSEN*
Shift lever:*RIVENDELL* S-2 thumb shifter
Kickstand:*PLETSCHER* double kickstand
Front rack:*NITTO* rivendell basket rack RBW52F
Pedal:*MKS* gamma pedal
Fender:*HONJO*