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I was just admiring your bicycle, Jeff when you spotted me here. You were very patient and allowed me to take several shots of you and your fine chopper. I liked this candid shot the best. Thanks very much.
Built by Otto himself from Columbus Zona and Reynolds 853. Stainless lazer cut decals and head badge brazed with silver.
Built by Otto himself from Columbus Zona and Reynolds 853. Stainless lazer cut decals and head badge brazed with silver.
Aluminium bodied, custom-built camera for 127 format relying to large extent on the mechanics of a Foth Derby.
Used were the Foth Anastigmat f2.5/50mm lens and focussing helical, the strut and bellows system and the cloth focal plane shutter unit with speed settings of B, 1/25, 1/50, 1/75, 1/100, 1/200, and 1/500. The camera also utilises the notched pressure plate with the two red windows from a Foth Derby 2A/2.5.
The unit is hard to date. It clearly utilises components drawn from a Foth Derby 2A which was introduced in 1932 and which was replaced in 1935 by the Forth Derby 3 (which had two green and two red oval windows on the back).
Note the absence of a viewfinder, the presence of an accessory shoe (presumably to fit a removable rangefinder?), and the addition of a larger shutter adjustment knob shaped from the brass fitting of a Bausch & Lomb Optical Com. Rapid Rectilinear lens. The camera has a has a snap-on back lid and the unit is overall is VERY WELL machined.
It is unclear whether this camera is a prototype of some sort, or whether this is a highly skilled personal modification. The fact that pencil-writing on the inside of the fully removable back lid states "winding end" is not necessarily indicative that it was a British-made unit (although it was acquired from the UK).
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Built by Otto himself from Columbus Zona and Reynolds 853. Stainless lazer cut decals and head badge brazed with silver.
The Aristocrat and Aristocrat Custom Built horns of the 1930s were configured in a long, compact wrap. It was a popular style of the day; in its sales literature Buescher bragged about the models' streamlined modern appearance.
Note that the main slide is configured to cant downward to the left and enter the third valve case to the right of the third valve slide.
Because of the relatively long and narrow wrap, some mistake these horns for "peashooter" trumpets. They aren't. A peashooter is generally wrapped even tighter and longer than this horn; the term is also usually associated with small bore sizes.
The bore on this horn might be considered small by today's standards, but it was a medium bore horn in its day.
Heather's bar/stem was custom made using a combination of fillets and TIG welds to get a really specific look. A 38CM 25.4 Nitto B-123 handlebar completes the tight and right track look on Heather's Rockcity and we added a hand-cut 'H' to the back of the stem as a cherry on top for our favorite gal.
Heather's bar/stem was custom made using a combination of fillets and TIG welds to get a really specific look. A 38CM 25.4 Nitto B-123 handlebar completes the tight and right track look on Heather's Rockcity and we added a hand-cut 'H' to the back of the stem as a cherry on top for our favorite gal.
This is a custom built chair created to look like a chair by Mitchell Gold. The client wanted deeper seating area for a cozier chair.
Although 1752 & 1754 arrived at Semper Shops at seperate times they will be ready to depart at the same time. The boys in the shop decided to work through lunch to get 1754 ready for departure. The horn, bell and antennae are the same as on 1752 however with the horn and antennae reversed running long hood forward.
Photo- Jeff Semper