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The Davely-Speechless
£70k.
Frankley-Ludicrous
Mmm let me think about that for a second.
Yes. I've thought. I won't bother thanks.
(Thanks to comment below from Lawrence Peregrine-Trousers - amazingly its a GrindlAy-Peerless)
The waters from Peerless Spring and Governor Spring are piped to two separate fountains located next to each other under a shared pavilion in High Rock Park.
Situated in upstate New York, the name of Saratoga Springs reflects the presence of mineral springs in the area. In the 19th Century, the community became famous as a spa. The elite of the Victorian age spent many summers relaxing in and sipping from Saratoga's mineral waters. Renowned as a health resort and dubbed the 'Queen of Spas', Saratoga continues even today as host to several natural mineral springs (there are currently 21 public mineral springs) and two historic spas.
I tasted the water from several of the springs, and it is fascinating that each one tastes different! One wouldn’t expect so much variety in such a small area.
A scan of APS film.
17th july, peerless avenue
yup. i'm wearing the skirt again. i love it.
check shirt: gant sale at DFO last year?
bubbleish skirt: one teaspoon
red tights: leona edmonson
flats: cream
Peerless and talented master ves-chan www.flickr.com/photos/26947305@N06/ did for my Ivo (Dollstown 18 boy) incredibly realistic military jacket, which I began to dream a year ago, for a long time looking for the masters in the network. To provide s020.radikal.ru/i719/1509/6f/da3fae6380ac.jpg, ves-chan made absolutely identical version of my amendments on drawings (hawk replaced by wolf ). Among other things, she embroiders patterns on a typewriter, so they are realistic and fit on the scale. This mega-cool!
Sutures, both external and internal, without a single blot, fabric quality is such as I wanted (in conjunction with a master for a long time picking), accessories and scale perfectly met for bjd, and looks extremely impressive. And also - to meet all deadlines to send a photo of intermediate processes, and communication was very friendly and prompt.
I am very happy (given my reverent attitude to detail) and heartfelt thanks for the wonderful wizard thing! Now I am happy, because Ivo finished.
Photographed on July 26, 2014 at the Inn at St. John's in Plymouth, Michigan as cars were arriving on the show field for the following day's Concours d'Elegance show.
Fantastic car, this is the first Peerless Coupe I have seen.
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Like its contemporary rival Peerless, Pierce-Arrow of Buffalo,
New York, had sprung from humble Victorian roots – in this case
the manufacture of birdcages, iceboxes and other domestic
items – to become one of America’s finest makers of luxury cars;
indeed, Pierce-Arrows were the car of choice for several American
Presidents. From June 1911 Pierce-Arrow also offered a line of
robust trucks with worm-drive rear axles, starting with the R-1
5-tonner, powered by a 7.4-litre pair-cast T-head engine rated at 38
hp. An improved 5-tonner, still with the 7.4-litre engine – the R-5 –
was introduced, along with the 2-ton X-2, in 1914, and the quality of
the Pierce trucks ensured large orders from the Allies during World
War One. By war’s end, Pierce-Arrow had delivered over 14,000
trucks to the British and French governments via import agents
Gaston, Williams & Wigmore of New York.
A particular strength of the American-built trucks in war service was
their ease of repair. Noted an official report: “The parts of some of the
American cars and trucks were interchangeable to an extent beyond
the comprehension of the average British or French officer.”
Geared to 14 mph, the Pierce-Arrow R-series truck was available in
two chassis lengths, 10ft 10.5in and 22ft 10.5in, with wheelbases
of 14ft and 17ft respectively. It had an x-braced pressed alloy steel
frame, with a degree of inbuilt flexibility to compensate for road
inequalities. Said Pierce-Arrow: “A flexible frame improperly designed
or assembled will by its very nature prove a source of trouble and
expense, and for this reason the Pierce-Arrow, with its pioneering of
the flexible frame, is in a position to offer the perfected article.”
This particular truck on the 17ft wheelbase, which has been officially
dated as 1917 by the Veteran Car Club, was purchased by Michael
Banfield in June 1973 from Pointer Group Transport of Norwich.
It bears the World War One supplier’s plate of Gaston, Williams &
Wigmore on its dashboard. In its previous ownership, this veteran
Pierce had appeared in the 1966 World War One flying movie The
Blue Max, being shipped to Ireland aboard the MV Juno to take part
in the filming, in which it served as a transport vehicle for the hero’s
Jagdstaffel of the Imperial German Air Service. Fitted with open cab
dropside truck bodywork and in running order, it looks all set to play
its part in the forthcoming commemoration of the Great War in which
it served in fact and fiction.
£20,000 - 25,000
€25,000 - 31,000
This car competed in the Equipe Pre-63 race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's meeting at Oulton Park in 2019 and is pictured at the Knickerbrook chicane during the morning practice session. It's the 1958 Peerless of Dan and Lucas Smith and is here leading the 1962 Jaguar E-Type of Paul Kennelly. The Peerless was based on the running gear of the Triumph TR3 with the 4-cylinder inline 2,138cc engine and about 325 were produced between 1957 and 1960.
The last revenue run up to Peerless Confectionary?
I received a call from Ken the engineer on the Chicago Terminal at the time tipping me a couple of days earlier off that the final run to Peerless would take place on February 1, 2007. Peerless announced it was shutting down January 12, 2007, with the last day of operation April 30, 2007. No new orders would be accepted after February 15, 2007.
This Chicago Terminal operation would involve retrieving an empty tank car and returning it to the North Avenue Yard. So I took the day off from work and brought with me a banner I made signifying the end of rail service on this northernmost section of the former Milwaukee Road Chicago & Evanston (C&E) Line.
And yes I was still shooting film back then with my trusty 35mm Canon camera.
Assisting Ken that day was John who was a conductor and a younger person whose name I do not recall.
Later I heard that one more run was made to Peerless before it shut down later that spring for good. Then in 2008 gondolas were stored on the Peerless spur after the factory was torn down as well as an excursion run by Chicago Terminal parent Iowa Pacific with the passenger car Caritas for Iowa Pacific customers.
If anyone has photos of a REVENUE run up to Peerless after February 1, 2007, I would be interested in seeing them posted.
I wrote an extensive history of the Milwaukee Road Chicago & Evanston (C&E) Line in the book "The Milwaukee Road in Chicago" which was published by the Milwaukee Road Historical Association in 2007 if anyone is interested in knowing more. It goes into the Chicago Terminal era.
I received no money from the book and it sold out quickly but might be available on the secondary market. The MRHA is considering reprinting it and I have an update to go with it.
Tom Burke
Fearless Pearless - Driver from Tampa Florida % Navigator from Heyworth Illinois
Hemmings Motor News Great Race 2018
Finish Line, Lower Water Street Halifax, Nova Scotia July 1st, 2018.
Camera: Nikon D7000 & Nikkor 18-105mm lens
Cambrian sandstones over Precambrian granite in Colorado, USA.
The rock record does not completely document Earth's history. In stratigraphic sections, missing time is represented by unconformities - surfaces of erosion and/or non-deposition of sediments. There are four types of unconformities: paraconformities, disconformities, nonconformities, and angular unconformities.
Seen here is the Precambrian-Cambrian unconformity at Manitou Springs, Colorado. The rocks in the middle and upper parts of the photo are Cambrian sandstones. The underlying rocks are part of the Pikes Peak Granite. About one-half a billion years is missing at the contact. Erosion surfaces such as this that have sedimentary rocks over igneous rocks are called nonconformities.
This contact is the "Great Unconformity", a megasequence boundary - specifically, the base of the Sauk Megasequence. Regionally recognizable packages of sedimentary rocks bounded by major unconformities are known as megasquences, or Sloss sequences (named after geologist L.L. Sloss, 1913-1996). The bounding unconformities were caused by erosion during regressions. Continental margins have more complete sedimentary successions, whereas craton interiors have more incomplete successions. The names for North America's megasequences are (from oldest to youngest): Sauk, Tippecanoe, Kaskaskia, Absaroka, Zuni, and Tejas.
Stratigraphy: Peerless Formation (Upper Cambrian) over Sawatch Sandstone (Upper Cambrian) over Pikes Peak Batholith (late Mesoproterozoic, 1.08 Ga)
Locality: Ute Trail Outcrop - exposure along the northeastern side of old Ute Trail, adjacent to Fountain Creek, northwestern end of the town of Manitou Springs, west of Colorado Springs, western El Paso County, central Colorado, USA (38° 52’ 07.28” North latitude, 104° 55’ 28.36” West longitude)
Photographed on September 18, 2010, the Saturday preceding the Glenmoor Gathering at Glenmoor Country Club in Canton, Ohio.
This Peerless prototype is all original and has spent its whole life either in storage at the former Peerless factory or on display in the Crawford Auto Museum in Cleveland. It was the only sixteen cylinder car ever built by Peerless, but their car production ceased while this prototype was at the Murphy Company to have its body installed.
Rain falling, starting to turn to sleet.
I was invited by Iowa Pacific President Ed Ellis to document the first two days of his new Chicago Terminal Railroad as it took over operations from CP Rail on the remnants of former Milwaukee Road trackage on Chicago's North Side.
The first day got off to a slow start as the Chicago River drawbridge had to be opened into place, two switches cleared of mud in the General Iron Industries area along Kingsbury Street, then two cars had to be towed blocking the progress of the train at the Lakeshore Athletic Club on Fullerton.
Eventually we made it to Peerless Confectionary running light to retrieve two empty cars left there by CP the previous week. It featured rare street running on the former MILW "Chicago & Evanston" or C&E Line in the middle of Lakewood Avenue. It started raining too hard to get pictures after the hopper was pulled out. The crew was taking one car out at a time, unsure of how much room they had on the stub of track that extended into Diversey Boulevard that was retained as a tail when the rest of the C&E was abandoned in 1984 from that point north. CP was able to pull two cars out at a time.
A few months later Peerless closed down and Chicago Terminal lost its first customer. This operation was rarely photographed to Peerless under Chicago Terminal operation as it only lasted from January into April of 2007 and service was infrequent. This area looks totally different now.
Peerless Coffee Company on Washington St and 9th St in the old part of downtown Oakland in 1975. This part of town was rebuilt just after the Civil War. They moved to another location on Oak St shortly after I took this photo. I used a Minolta SRT202 with 50mm Minolta lens. Kodak Tri-X film developed in D-76 for 6:45 minutes and scanned this year with EPSON V600.
The projection room of a formerly grand but now long closed cinema. These projectors haven't hummed with the sound of hot celluloid running through them since the 1960's.
1410
'The Largest Oil Company Owned By Canadians'
British American Oil Company
'washes your motor while you drive'
a Maclean's Magazine advert. 1957c
Once one of the ‘Three Ps’ of American car manufacturers (Packard and Pierce-Arrow being the other two), Peerless produced high-quality cars in Cleveland between 1900 and 1931. It was an innovative producer too, pioneering electric lighting and starting, and fully-enclosed bodywork. This example featured in the Lake Mirror Concours d’Élegance in Lakeland.
Chassis n° GT2-00198
Bonhams : The Autumn Sale 2020
Estimated : € 40.000 - 60.000
Sold for € 46.000
Autoworld
Brussels - Belgium
September 2020
A racing mechanic with considerable experience of spaceframe construction, Bernie Rodger was approached by John Gordon (later of Gordon-Keeble fame) and James Byrnes to built the prototype of a new 2+2 sports saloon: the Warwick. Noteworthy features of this very pretty Italianate GT included leaf-sprung De Dion rear suspension and the Triumph TR3 2.0-litre engine, overdrive gearbox, and front suspension, including its disc brakes. By the time production began in 1958 the car had been renamed 'Peerless', while bodies were now of glassfibre construction instead of the prototype's aluminium panelling. A very capable car, the Peerless had room for a family and its luggage, was good for a top speed of more than 110mph (177km/h) and cost a relatively affordable £1,500. Unfortunately for Peerless, this was approximately the price of a Jaguar 2.4-litre saloon...
In 1958 a solitary Peerless started the Le Mans 24 Hour Race; the only four-seater in the field, it finished in a highly creditable 16th place overall. Despite a favourable reception and the valuable publicity gained from its Le Mans exploits, Peerless was soon in financial difficulty and production ceased in 1960 after an estimated 325 cars had been made. Bernie Rodger then revived the design in improved form as the Warwick, but by the end of 1961 this too had gone. However, that was not quite the end of the Peerless saga; John Gordon and Jim Keeble then took the concept a stage further, fitting a Chevrolet V8 engine into a Peerless-type chassis to create the Bertone-styled Gordon-Keeble of 1964.
One of only 70 made in left-hand drive configuration, this ultra-rare Peerless GT has a race-prepared Triumph TR3 engine producing 100bhp and is eligible for the Le Mans Classic and Goodwood Revival events among others. Described by the vendor, a Belgian private collector, as in generally good condition with original interior, this restored car is offered with Belgian Carte Grise (Oldtimer) and Contrôle Technique.
The MP15 is paused after dropping off the tank car on the spur alongside Peerless. The Soo Line crews were often given free boxes of candy by employees of Peerless.
The switch in the foreground was used to access Continental Baking.
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BSA cars were manufactured between 1907 and 1912 in Birmingham, then until 1939 in both Coventry and Birmingham. They had established a motorcar department in an unsuccessful effort to make use of the Sparkbrook Birmingham factory; an independent part of the same site was occupied by The Lanchester Motor Company Limited. The BSA brand ownership eventually passed to Tata Motors after their purchase of Jaguar Cars who had previously purchased Daimler Motor Company.
The BSA Peerless 10HP coupé was so successful it is rumoured that almost as many as ten were produced and in favourable conditions they were allegedly capable of reaching 55 mph on the open road.
Seen at the Bath Pageant of Motoring 6th July 2013