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Silberpfeil (1938)
La Mercedes-Benz W154 est une voiture de Grand Prix conçue par Rudolf Uhlenhaut pour les saisons 1938 et 1939 des Grands Prix, et qui permit à l'allemand Rudolf Caracciola de remporter son troisième et dernier titre de champion d'Europe des pilotes. 14 voitures et 19 moteurs ont été construits.
Moteur de 2962 cm3 avec 12 cylindres en V, et alimenté par deux compresseurs.
Puissance: 468 CV à 7800 tr/mn.
Numéro de chassis: 189436
Numéro de moteur: 189439
The Mercedes-Benz W154 is a Grand Prix car designed by Rudolf Uhlenhaut for the 1938 and 1939 Grand Prix seasons, and which enabled the German Rudolf Caracciola to win his third and last title of European driver champion. 14 cars and 19 engines were built.
2962 cc engine with 12 V cylinders, and powered by two compressors.
Power: 468 CV at 7800 rpm.
Chassis number: 189436
Engine number: 189439
Entrance to the compressor house, with the sea beyond.
For an account of my trip to Cornwall, with more pictures from the old mines, and lots of interest to anyone who’s watched Poldark:
The ruin of the old compressor house at Levant Mine, in thick fog. It was used to make compressed air to work the drills in the mines.
For an account of my trip to Cornwall, with more pictures from the old mines, and lots of interest to anyone who’s watched Poldark:
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With my three uploads today I've been looking at reflections in the windows of the foghorn shed at the Low Head Lighthouse in northern Tasmania. Once again we see the view behind me of the sea, sky and clouds. And through the glass we also catch a glimpse of the air compressors of this massive foghorn that can be heard 30 kilometres out to sea. But with the reflection it creates an almost surreal image in the René Magritte sense.
It was installed in 1929, and if you look closely you can see some of the fine engineering that went into producing this compressor.
The compressor house on a different day - no fog and actually plenty of sunshine. Fantastic structure.
For an account of my trip to Cornwall, with more pictures from the old mines, and lots of interest to anyone who’s watched Poldark:
Mo's place was a small liquor / variety store located on HY380, just over 2 miles west of Old Glory, in Stonewall County. I first stopped here in the fall of 2014 after seeing their VERY COOL sign out front, having a life-sized steel vulture perched atop the supporting pole. Revisiting in December of 2019, the business was closed and boarded up, the sign and vulture gone, but the pole still in place. Stopping here this past June I found the lot scraped clean and the only hint that anything had ever been there was this memorial. I don't know what had the place close... bad business (8 miles east of Aspermont with its Allsup's convenience store, and others), or maybe the owners retirement, or death.
The night before my drive out here I decided to do a Google Earth search along HY380 west of Old Glory. From my first visit I remembered that about 200 yards directly behind the building was some kind of oil or gas pumping facility that was creating a dull, deep "thumping" sound... the vibration being felt coming through the ground as I stood by my Jeep. Finding what I thought could be this facility, I tried a "street view" in Google Earth and found this memorial, about 50 yards west of a gate for the Energy Transfer Company's Corsica Compressor Station, an operation that provides pressure for keeping natural gas moving through pipelines.
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4 stage compressor for air. Manufactured at DEMAG in the 60s. Freshly overhauled it still runs today....
I think Peter Lindbergh would have liked it.
Ilford HP5+ exposed like 1600ISO, developed in Kodak's HC110.
Mamiya645 proTL, Sekor45/2.8
50 mm diameter at the base
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This was manufactured on a 5 axis Robodrill CNC machining center.