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Description: "Motor Manufacturing" by Clive Gardiner for the Empire Marketing Board.
Date: c.1930
Our Catalogue Reference: CO 956/258
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Phoenix, AZ
6/14/16
While in Arizona, I had the opportunity to visit the DaDee Manufacturing facility. I met Refuse Arizona the week before at Waste Expo and we were able to arrange a tour at the DaDee Manufacturing facility. On my way to their facility I saw The Scorpion FE Mack LR from Waste Expo pull into the Mack dealership in Phoenix, it was neat seeing that truck twice in one week in two different states. Once I arrived at DaDee Manufacturing Refuse Arizona gave me a tour that started at prefabrication and went all the way to final assembly. I had a great time learning more about the DaDee products and seeing them in person.
Big thank you to everyone at DaDee Manufacturing, they are truly an innovative company with products of the highest quality. And a special thank you to Refuse Arizona for the amazing tour, it was an honor meeting you and Waste Expo and talking about the Waste Industry.
When NASA fired up the Additive Manufacturing Facility on the International Space Station to begin more testing of the emerging 3-D printing technology in orbit, one college student in particular watched intently.
In autumn of 2014, a high school senior in Enterprise, Alabama, Robert Hillan entered the Future Engineers Space Tool design competition, which challenged students to create a device astronauts could use in space. The catch was that it must upload electronically and print on the new 3-D printer that was going to be installed on the orbiting laboratory.
In January 2015, NASA and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Foundation announced that Hillan's design, a Multipurpose Precision Maintenance Tool, was selected out of hundreds of entries to be printed on the station.
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SLR Class :- M2
Manufactures Model :- G12
Introduction years :- 1954 to 1966
No of Locos :- 14
Loco Nos : 569-573 M2
591-593 M2a
594 and 595 M2b
626 and 627 M2c
628 and 629 M2d
Builder :- General Motors (G.M.D.)
State :- Canada and America
Prime Mover :- General Motors - G M V12 567 12C
Mode of Power transmission :- Diesel Electric (AC - DC Power Transmission )
Power :- 1425 hp
rpm :- 800
Weight :- 79 ton
Length :- 46' 9"
Wheel arrangement :- A1A-A1A (M2,M2a,M2b and M2d)
Bo-Bo (M2c)
Brake system : - Vacuum and Dynamic
Max speed :- 112 Km/h
Gauge : - 1676 mm
Type :- Locomotive
Purpose/Used line :- Main line Passenger and Freight train Not to run Matale and Kelani Valley line.
Gift from Colombo Plan aid.
M2c special designed for Upcountry (Colombo to Badulla) Rail track.
SLR purchased 02 Locos in 1966 from EMD plant America for Cement Transport (M2d 628 and 629).
All locos fitted train light system and fitted W1 cowcatchers at CME in 80’.
M2 572 use for “Ruhunu Kumari” Train inaugural run in 1955.
M2 572 use for “Udarata Menike” Train inaugural run in 23 April1956.
M2 571 Destroyed due to Bomb blast at Mullipathan in 04.10.1985
M2 570 Trapped KKS in 1990. because of Civil war transported to C.M.E. Ratmalana by ship in 1997. Back in service after repair in July 1998.
M2d 629 use for “Meena Gaya” Train inaugural run in 23 December 2004.
M2 591 Damaged by Tsunami waves at Pereliya in 26.12.2004. Back in service after repair in 26.12.2008
13 Locomotives are presently on Service.
M2s were named,
569 : Ontario
570 : Alberta
571 : Saskatchewan
572 : British Columbia
573 : Quebec
591 : Manitoba
592 : Nova Scotia
593 : New Brunswick
594 : Prince Edward Island
595 : New Foundland
626 : Montreal
627 : Vancouver
628 : Kankesanturai
629 : Galle
Information as at 06.05.2026
Rancho Cucamonga, CA
Love the retro look of this mid century building located in the industrial area of my city. There were a few rabbits on the lawn when I arrived, but they weren't interested in adding to the photo..
Taken the other day at the #GEInstaWalk in Fort Worth, TX.
This facility is amazing. Tier 3 Evolution Series in process.
@GeneralElectric
To see more photos from all the photographers who were present, go here: www.ge.com/instawalk/ft-worth
Manufacture des Gobelins
Depuis 1662, année où Colbert décida de regrouper les ateliers parisiens en un même lieu, la Manufacture des Gobelins, célèbre dans le monde entier, n’a cessé de marquer de sa signature l’histoire de la tapisserie.
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Car: Suzuki Jimny JLX (with a home-built body?).
Year of manufacture: 2000.
Date of first registration in the UK: 30th June 2000.
Place of registration: Not known.
Date of last MOT: 20th May 2022.
Mileage at last MOT: 65,195.
Date of last V5 issued: 6th May 2022.
Date taken: 17th April 2022.
Location: Beach Lawns, Weston-Super-Mare, UK.
In the fall of 2023, NASA hot fire tested an aluminum-based, 3D-printed rocket engine nozzle. What made the event remarkable is that aluminum isn’t typically used for additive manufacturing because the process causes it to crack, and it isn’t used in rocket engines due to its low melting point. Yet the test was a success.
The new possibility of printed aluminum engine parts will mean significant savings for NASA in terms of time, money, and, most importantly, the weight of future spacecraft. And Elementum 3D Inc., a partner on the project, is now bringing the benefits of that technology to its customers, including not only rocket engine manufacturers but also makers of race cars, lighting fixtures, computer chips, and more
In this image, a laser powder directed energy deposition (LP-DED) 3D printer at RPM Innovations’ facility additively manufactures a large-scale aerospike rocket engine nozzle from one of Elementum 3D’s specialized, 3D-printable aluminum alloys.
Image credit: RPM Innovations Inc.
#NASAMarshall #NASA #3dprinting #RocketEngine
Manufactured from 1956 to 1965 by Imperial Camera Corp. of Chicago, Illinois. The Imperial name had been used by Herbert George Camera Co. as a camera model name. In 1961, the company changed it’s name to Imperial Camera Corp. The Savoy was one of the company’s 6x6cm plastic cameras. Other names given to the same model include Adventurer, Mark XII Flash, Reflex, Six-twenty and Six-Twenty Reflex. It is a simple box camera that used 620 film. Some had an equally simple flash attachment. Created at during the early days of the space race, it featured a “futuristic” satalite symbol on the metal face plate. It’s real feature: It came in colors! The green, oddly enough, is the most common. It also came in at least red, blue, tan, grey and black—maybe more. I’m not sure if the grey in my collection started life as a two-tone, but it is now…
A personal note: Holding a special place in my collection is the red Savoy. It is my very first camera. My father purchased it for me when I was 3 years old. Little did he know what he’d start!
Pressed metal San Loo Chinese Checkers game found at an estate sale.
Manufactured by Northwestern Products CO., St Louis, Missouri.
Age not known.
14"x14".
The city of Mysore, in the Southern State of Karnataka, is a major incense production center exporting worldwide. A single worker makes thousands of incense sticks a day, but their working conditions are tough. They (mostly women) have to work long hours in very poorly lit rooms, and the repetitious nature of the work and exposure to chemicals for scenting the dipped incense sticks often causes postural, locomotive system and skin problems.
Karnataka, India. 2011
This photo is not real earthquake mess! I was so stressed out last night I manufactured some chaos out of Jade’s studio, which was mostly packed away. Everything is carefully balanced, I don’t know how I managed to pull it off with all the aftershocks!
Yesterday and last night totally sucked.
A 7.0 earthquake yesterday morning left my real studio (and a lot of my house) in shambles. Entire shelves were emptied, art fell off the walls, coffee cups fell out of the cabinet (and broke the coffee pot,) there is major structural damage to a lot of the main roads and off ramps in town. Many businesses are closed. Thankfully my family and I are all safe! After the main quake we have been continually hit with aftershocks (there was just a 3.7 a minute ago.)
This has all been so completely terrifying and stressful. The initial quake was horrible, I was all alone in the dark, and the aftershocks are totally keeping me on edge. It isn’t even about any of the the damage that happened, I think I’m stuck in the fear that at any moment a tremor could turn into a worse earthquake. People up here talk about The Big One, and we are apparently due for a Big one, and I’m just worried it will happen and my house will spontaneously explode or something.
Thank you everyone for your concern and well wishes!!
More cleaning for me today. My internet isn’t the best at the moment, so I am still trying to reply to older comments!
When Henry Ford established the Ford Motor Company in Detroit, the assembly line method revolutionised automobile production. Ford of Canada is unique in the sense that it was incorporated on 17 August 1904 without any real ownership from the parent company in the USA. Today it is a wholly own subsidiary. While originally located in Walkerville, the company moved it's headquarters and established a manufacturing plant in Oakville in the post-war boom. Purchasing a large poultry farm the plant and new HQ opened in 1953. The current HQ building opened in 2002 replacing the original one.
Graflex Crown Graphic - Schneider Kreuznach Symmar-S 1:5.6/210 - Arista EDU.Ultra 400 @ ASA-200
Ilford Ilfotec HC (1+47) 7:30 @ 20C
Meter: Pentax Spotmeter V
Scanner: Epson V700 + Silverfast 9 SE
Editor: Adobe Photoshop CC
KLAX (Los Angeles International Airport) - 01 JAN 2016
ILF Group Convair CV-5800 "Super Stretch" N351FL parked at the Imperial Cargo Complex (ICC).
Production Site: San Diego (SAN)
Convair R4Y-1 (Navy version of commercial CV-340)
Manufactured in 1955
Engines: 2x Pratt & Whitney R-2800-52W
To US Navy as 140996
Designation changed to C-131F in 1962
To AMARC: 11 FEB 1986 as 1G0024
To DMI Aviation as N5248N
Stored at Kelowna, British Columbia in FEB 2002
Purchased by Kelownna Flightcraft in 2006 and converted to CV-5800 "Super Stretch" aircraft.
Fuselage stretched by 14 ft, 3 in
Equipped with (2) Allison 501-D22G (Series III) engines, de-rated to 4300 TSHP.
Hamilton Standard 54H60-164 four-bladed propellers
Advanced flight deck - Honeywell EFIS
Reconditioned Airframe - Projected life in excess of 100,000 hours
Modern, all new lightweight electrical wiring
All new flight control system cables
Dual point underwing pressure refueling
Approved Class E cabin
Roller floor system
120-inch cargo door
Pallets and containers are compatible with DC-9 and B-727 aircraft
To Kelowna Flightcraft Air Charter: 31 AUG 2009 to 18 JAN 2013 as C-FKFS
To Gulf & Caribbean Cargo Inc (IFL Group): 18 JAN 2013 as N351FL
At the Musée de Gobelins, Paris.
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ВМЭ1 (Hungarian electric shunting locomotive, type 1) were designed and manufactured by the Ganz-MAVAG factory from 1958 to 1965 (DVM4 factory type; DVM2 prototype). A total of 324 locomotives were built: 310 for the USSR railways and 14 for the DPRK railways. The locomotive was equipped with the Ganz-Jendrassik XVI-JV 17/24 four-stroke prechamber V-shape diesel engine with sixteen cylinders with a power output of 441 kW (up to No. 136) or 471 kW (from No. 137 onwards). This engine was also used in the leading motor cars of the six-car DP-01-08 diesel trains built in 1950-1952 by the Hungarian Ganz factory (Hungarian: Ganz vállalatok) in Budapest for the USSR railways. From 1951 to 1958, these diesel trains operated as courier trains and later as express trains on the Moscow-Leningrad route (October Railway) and were the fastest and most comfortable trains of their time on the railways of the Soviet Union. AS this diesel passenger train the locomotive had the electric transmission included an EBSc 41/200 traction d.c. generator with a capacity of 370 kW.
The locomotive can be seen in the Stalker movie by Tarkovsky of 1979.
Olympus Trip 35 - Film Fomapan 100
Développement Kodak D76
Reflecta RPS 7200 Filmscanner
Tous droits réservés
Singapore Airlines Airbus A380 Preparing for Take-off from Sydney Airport.
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The experience flying with the A380 is fantastic. Noise level is very low and the inflight features are aplenty.
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The Airbus A380 is a double-deck, wide-body, four-engine airliner manufactured by the European corporation Airbus, a subsidiary of EADS. The largest passenger airliner in the world, the A380 made its maiden flight on 27 April 2005 from Toulouse, France, and made its first commercial flight on 25 October 2007 from Singapore to Sydney with Singapore Airlines. The aircraft was known as the Airbus A3XX during much of its development phase, but the nickname Superjumbo has since become associated with it.
The A380's upper deck extends along the entire length of the fuselage, and its width is equivalent to that of a widebody aircraft. This allows for a cabin with 50% more floor space than the next-largest airliner, the Boeing 747-400, and provides seating for 525 people in a typical three-class configuration or up to 853 people in all-economy class configurations. The postponed freighter version, the A380-800F, is offered as one of the largest freight aircraft, with a payload capacity exceeded only by the Antonov An-225. The A380-800 has a design range of 15,200 km (8,200 nmi), sufficient to fly from New York to Hong Kong for example, and a cruising speed of Mach 0.85 (about 900 km/h or 560 mph at cruising altitude).
NASA's Orion spacecraft that flew Exploration Flight Test-1 on Dec. 5, 2014 is seen as it arrives at the White House complex, Saturday, July 21, 2018 in Washington, DC. Lockheed Martin, NASA’s prime contractor for Orion, began manufacturing the Orion crew module in 2011 and delivered it in July 2012 to NASA's Kennedy Space Center where final assembly, integration and testing was completed. More than 1,000 companies across the country manufactured or contributed elements to the spacecraft. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
I was reviewing an earlier shot and noticed that this dead flower had just poked into the frame just behind the pillar of fence. I broke it halfway down the stem and stuck it into some long grass for support and took this shot.
I shouldn't reveal how, but it was in the wrong place.
I was getting tired of sunset seascapes and so I headed inland to find something. I nearly missed it - like the sunrise at the other end of this day. I need to build a repertoire of great inland, intimate locations.
Not an original shot, but it's different for me.
This place has had a few names and also several owners. It made soap products of all kinds and had been in Toronto's portlands area for almost 100 years. It was a huge complex that isn't currently very accessible, both because of the location and what's also going on around it, construction-wise.
This site was supposed to be reused and had been used as a filming location for almost a decade after it closed down. Gulf originally proposed that this would remain a work-focused site, but of course, it was later sold to CF and then demolition was in order and now it's supposed to be all condos vs. manufacturing or office space. Thank god for the power of the MZO bypass! 16 new condos seem like a much better deal in an isolated location.
These are photos from different periods. I was amazed at how this was one of the few buildings that felt much bigger inside than it looked outside. It also used to have a train layup next to it - which was quite hard to find in the '90s when walking from the North as it was more closed off then. This whole area was a real mystery to me until I started riding my bike down here and finding more things concealed by the landscape.
Some images from the working plant by local Peter MacCallum : spacing.ca/toronto/2022/01/18/from-sunlight-park-to-east-...
Chassis n° 4607
Les Grandes Marques du Monde au Grand Palais 2020
Bonhams
Parijs - Paris
Frankrijk - France
February 2020
Estimated : € 1.050.000 - 1.400.000
Sold for € 870.000
All the sophistication of Ettore Bugatti's famously thoughtful design ethic is embodied within this wonderfully well-presented ex-works racing Bugatti Type 39, as manufactured at the charismatic Molsheim factory in 1925...
Mr Bugatti built his reputation upon creating rapid and reliable motor cars endowed with competitively powerful engines in light, compact, and nimble chassis. Above all he clearly grasped the over-riding importance of a high power-to-weight ratio in contrast to some other quality car constructors to whom overall weight seemed irrelevant compared to achieving the highest possible power not necessarily out there on the open road, nor race circuit, but in the engine test-house...
While combining in so many of his sporting models high power, minimal mass and a good-handling, driveable chassis, Ettore Bugatti also manufactured most of them in sufficient numbers to attract, and to satisfy, broad demand from a moneyed and dashingly competition-minded market.
In 1924 Mr Bugatti had launched his 2-litre Type 35 design, and by 1925 the Type 39 followed to comply with maximum 1500cc Voiturette racing regulations – effectively the Formula 2 of the time. Use of a short-stroke crankshaft in the straight-8 cylinder engine provided bore and stroke measurements of 60mm x 66mm, displacing 1493cc. Possibly Mr Bugatti was anticipating the overall Grand Prix capacity limit rule change for 1926-27 which would cut maximum permitted engine capacity from 2-litres to 1½.
The Type 39s made their debut in the Grand Prix de Tourisme at Montlhéry south of Paris, France, in June 1925. The four new works team cars promptly finished 1-2-3-4 in their class, and in 3rd place was '4607' now offered here, driven by Giulio Foresti.
Of course the pinnacle of road racing competition during the 1920s was the Grand Prix arena, and when the1925 Italian Grand Prix at Monza Autodrome was run concurrently with the 1500cc Gran Premio delle Vetturette the Bugatti company contested it with a full team of five Type 39s.
The race was run over 80 laps of the Milanese Autodrome's 10km combined road and high-speed track. Bugatti's team captain was Bartolomeo 'Meo' Costantini, teamed to drive with Jules Goux, Pierre de Vizcaya, Count Carlo Masetti and Count Aymo Maggi, who was replacing Ferdinand de Vizcaya, the Spanish banker – and backer of the Bugatti company - who arrived late from Barcelona. And when Count Masetti had to stand down due to a leg injury, it was Giulio Foresti who took his place to drive '4607' in the long race...
As the Gran Premio developed, the Bugattis not only dominated the Voiturette category but also climbed the leader board amongst the full 2-litre Grand Prix cars. Finally – after 5hrs 44mins 40.91secs to be precise (the Italian lap-scorers immensely proud of their then-new hundredth-second timing equipment) the Gran Premio delle Vetturette was decided with Costantini's Bugatti Type 39 winning from the sister cars of Ferdinand de Vizcaya and Giulio Foresti, respectively 2nd and 3rd. Pierre de Vizcaya's Type 39 placed fourth while Jules Goux's engine had failed after 64 of the 80 laps. Overall, the Bugatti Type 39s had proved so fast and reliable that Costantini finished the Grand Prix 3rd overall, Ferdinand de Vizcaya 6th and Foresti in '4607' now offered here, 7th.
A record survives of this car and its sister '4604' both being sold soon after to the British importer, Colonel Sorel in London, and it is thought that Giulio Foresti – an accomplished 'wheeler-dealer' in his own right – then found an eager buyer for the pair – one A.V.Turner - in Australia, although alternative reference suggests that '4607' was imported there by prominent Vauxhall driver Boyd Edkins.
On June 19, 1926, the car certainly appeared upon Sydney's high-banked Maroubra Speedway driven by a friend and colleague of Edkins, Dick Clarke. While the Type 39s – or 'Monzas' as they became known in Australia – became particularly noted for their wonderfully high-pitched exhaust note, they were not well-suited to Maroubra, since they were over-geared for the tight Speedway. Clarke was still able to win a heat there on September 4, 1926, and '4607' lapped the speedbowl at 86mph. At Penrith Clarke won a heat and a semi-final before taking 2nd and 3rd places in two further events. Then back at Maroubra for the January, 1927 meeting Clarke won two heats and took 2nd in a final.
The car later passed to 20-year-old Sid Cox, son of a wealthy building magnate. The young man also had a Bugatti Type 40 which he used as a tender when he took '4607' to Philip Island, Melbourne, Victoria, to race in the 1928 Australian Grand Prix. With friend Ken McKinney alongside him Sid Cox practised for the great race only for bronze filings to be found in the oil filter, a sign that the power unit's bronze roller-bearing cages were failing. On race day, sure enough, '4607's engine broke a connecting rod.
A new crankcase and sump were bought for the car, but the old sump was used in the rebuild, mated to the new crankcase. Cox then sold '4607' to poster-artist Reg St John who became noted for maintaining the Bugatti in utterly pristine, highly polished and well-cherished condition. He reportedly used it to parade up and down Swanston Street, Melbourne, admiring his reflection in the shop windows. And why not?
However, Australian racer Carl Junker then acquired the car and – with Reg Nutt as his riding mechanic – he entered it in the 1931 Australian GP again at Philip Island. They were running second behind Hope Bartlett's Bugatti Type 37A on the penultimate lap when its engine failed, Junker and Nutt joyously inheriting outright Grand Prix victory for '4607'. Ernie Nutt had tuned the car and he would recall that Junker used 7,000rpm through the gears, '4607' achieving 55mph in 1st, 72mph in 2nd and 103mph in 3rd.
Racing again in the 1932 Australian GP, Junker improved his lap times but fell victim to spark-plug trouble which meant he could finish only 5th. Completing the long race ahead of him that day was Merton Wreford in his Brescia Bugatti, and he later bought '4607' from Junker, reputedly after it had suffered another engine failure.
Mert Wreford fixed the problem and then entered the Type 39 in the 1933 Australian GP in which he found himself confronted by Carl Junker in the sister 1925 Bugatti 'Monza' – chassis '4604'. These two Type 39s proved to be the class of that Grand Prix field and after Junker's engine blew-up, Wreford moved into the lead, only for '4607's engine to fail on the third-last lap. Evidently the two broken 'Monzas' were left parked together at trackside – but Mert Wreford had recorded the race's fastest lap.
A new owner was then found for '4607' in specialist Jack Day of the Ajax Pump Works who fitted '4607' with his own 'Day' supercharger, driven from the crankshaft nose. He made his debut with the supercharged car in the August, 1933, Frankston hill-climb. But when the forced-induction experiment disappointed, Jack Day removed the Bugatti engine and fitted instead a Ford V8. This Type 39 thus became the first Australian special to be powered by a 'black iron' American Ford V8. The resultant Day Special proved very successful through 1936, setting new hill-climb records at Mitcham and Rob Roy. Reg Nutt raced the car in monoposto form at Phillip Island, 1937, and in the South Australian GP in 1938.
After World War 2, Bondi Beach surf life-saver, water-skier and amateur wrestler 'Gelignite' Jack Murray bought '4607' in its Day Special form from Jack Day, the price £1,100.
'Gelignite Jack' would earn his nickname from blowing up rural dunnies with sticks of gelignite during the RedeX Round Australia Trials. Every man needs a hobby....
The car "was given the full Murray red paint and chrome treatment" and in it he set fastest time and finished 5th on handicap in the 1946 New South Wales GP at Bathurst. Returning there n 1947 he was tipped to win, but failed to finish. The car was clocked at 106mph. At the 1948 Bathurst 100 the Day Special was recorded at 117mph and placed 3rd on handicap in the over 1500cc class. Overheating often afflicted the car in its Ford V8-engined form, but 'Gelignite Jack' continued to campaign the ageing special into 1954 when he was an amazing 4th fastest and 7th on handicap at the Bathurst Easter Meeting.
Subsequently the car survived in storage at Murray's Bondi garage, until he sold it – accompanied by a mass of related Bugatti components – to marque enthusiast Ted Lobb. While the original Type 39 chassis survived within the Day Special, Ted Lobb also had its original engine 'No 7' – which was fitted in his sister car '4604' – so now he also owned the blown-up engine 'No 6' – originally in '4604' – from Jack Day. Around 1974, Ted Lobb sold the Day Special and engine 'No 6' plus numerous other related Bugatti parts to Bob King, who later decided to rebuild '4607' to its 1925 Italian Grand Prix 'Monza' form.
He would later write: "The monumental rebuild was completed in the early 1980s, using a Type 39 crankshaft which came from Lance Dixon's Type 51A '4847'. The crankshaft – numbered '27' – was in perfect ex-factory condition, all parts carrying matching factory numbers. A gearbox casing was obtained in England from Ian Preston. The differential is Type 38, suitably altered, from the Nuttbug (BC4)". He concluded "'4607' was sold to Art Valdez of California in 1986...".
This restored Bugatti Type 39 was then shipped to Bangkok, Thailand, in time for new owner Art Valdez to drive it in the December 5, 1987, Prince 'Bira' commemorative Bangkok Grand Prix meeting. Anton Perera reported in 'The Nation' newspaper: "There in the parade was the oldest car of them all, a Bugatti Type 39 – all of 62 years with a 1493cc engine. And didn't the smooth engine purr with noise, indicating that it could be a danger on the 2.5km Pattaya Circuit next week...Yes, the 1931 Australian Grand Prix winner looked in perfectly good trim and ready to turn on the speed..."
John Fitzpatrick of the Australian Bugatti Register later reported how at Pattaya, where the Vintage race "ended an absolutely magical fortnight...Art Valdez was euphoric after his first race in a GP Bugatti...as Neil Corner wrote recently '...To have your GP Bugatti motoring well is to live with the gods...'".
The car was preserved within Mr Valdez's Californian ownership until in April 1993 he telephoned former owner Bob King to declare his intention to sell it. However, it was not until 2017 that the car subsequently passed from Art Valdez into the ownership of the present vendor.
Today '4607' presents very well indeed, having recently benefited from a mechanical inspection, strip-down and rebuilt by Tony Ditheridge's renowned Hawker Racing concern in Milden, Suffolk, England. This work included thorough cleaning and re-commissioning - even to the extent of fitting new valve springs. This ex-works Bugatti warhorse was then unleashed successor on the open road. Now, subject to the usual inspections and personal set-up adjustments, '4607' is poised for an active 2020 motoring season.
The car is accompanied by a comprehensive historical overview and inspection report compiled by the highly respected British Bugatti specialists David Sewell and Mark Morris.
In summary they confirm that "Type 39 chassis '4607' presents itself today as a recognised and well recorded example of the 8-cylinder GP Bugatti". They continue: "One key factor that must be recorded is that the major components are of Molsheim manufacture". The chassis frame is No 61 – while they report that the Molsheim lower (engine) crankcase is '7' ex-'4604' – the Molsheim upper (engine) crankcase is '114' – the Molsheim cambox 'No 7' – the Molsheim gearbox 'No 113' – the Molsheim gearbox lid No '856' – while the Molsheim rear axle centre casing has been modified from that of a touring car, ratio 12x54, 'No 284'.
So here BONHAMS is delighted to commend to the market this Bugatti Type 39 – the eminently useable (and potentially so enjoyable – and so raceable) winner of the 1931 Australian Grand Prix – and previously works driver Giulio Foresti's works team car, with third place in the 1925 Grand Prix de Tourism –third place in the 1925 Italian Gran Premio delle Vetturette at Monza – and 7th in the overall Italian Grand Prix, all so prominent within its history.
Just one decisive bid, and this fine example of Le Pur Sang – which such a jam-packed history on both road and track - could be yours...