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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.
Correct perspective distortion with Shift Adapters from Fotodiox. Learn more: fotodioxpro.com/collections/shift-adapters
Bluring on purpose for Our Daily Challenge. This is an “art filter’ built into my Olympus E-PL1 camera. I know it blurs the shot so, I thought I’d give it a go - on purpose. It works better from a greater height and more of a cityscape, but is suposed to mimic a tilt-shift lens and give the impression of a toy landscape. Fun to try, would be better in the City, but thanks for the daily challenge for reminding me I had the filter.
Taken early morning just prior to getting chased away with a shotgun. Treated to a tilt shift look and oil painted filter.
Well, it seems on a group on Facebook caught the tilt shift bug, so I'd thought I would show you some of my efforts
AN classes, South Dynon
July 2011
The passenger starts to shift across towards the flaming side of the outfit for the righthanded Clearways corner.
potentially my last night shooting this event and to avoid growing tired of it, I used a tilt-shift lens.
Today we had a lesson in how to "key shift". The idea was to use a light and overpower the available light by 1 stop, then 2 stops, and this one is 3 stops. it was absolutely freezing today, and this model wore shorts, so one of my group members got him the blanket!
I have made this tilt shift lens using a Samyang 28mm f2.8 lens with Nikon mounting, plus a -10 dioptres lens (but later I changed to a -13 lens with better results).
The distance between the lenses is very critical, and affects the back focal length, so some testing is needed.
For the mounting I split the lens and used the back to fix it to the camera.
The middle was done with a flexible rubber pipe.
The camera, a D90 has to be use in manual mode and the speed set by try an error.
This lens is very lomografic and has crazy coma, but it is not good for miniaturizing (it has no sharp focus)
My next attempt will be to add a CPU to the lens to obtain the photometry reading and be able to use the camera in semi-automatic mode.
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*
My entry for the photo contest.
Almost didn't make it. First, I had to go home to process the slide film, then when I went to scan it I found that the old laptop I use that's hooked up to the scanner was broken. I opened it up and it is the fabled "capacitor rot" - a few 880uF caps blew on the motherboard. So I had to get vuescan installed on my laptop and get my scanner running under linux (that was fun).
Velvia 100, developed at home. Taken with a 90mm f/8 Schneider Super-Angulon on a Toyo camera.
Tilt-shift effect and a slight bit of lens fall to increase the perspective of the stairs.
No post-processing except for a bit of color correction in Gimp; I don't have lightroom installed on my laptop.
More shots from this day coming soon... they're scanning right now but I won't post them until I am back in front of my main computer.
May 9, 2021
Hiking the Provincelands Dunes on the Eastern side of Provincetown. With the wind from the West, it was a very comfortable hike - cool weather, but very sunny and no wind since were were protected by the high hills of sand.
Cape Cod National Seashore
Provincetown, Massachusetts
Cape Cod - USA
Photo by brucetopher
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Alias: Shifter
Real name: Kiersten Larson
Powers: Density shifting
Earth: 304
Origin: Kiersten and her sister were both born with powers. After learning that her twin, Melissa, was involved in some criminal activity, Kiersten set out to stop her. While trying to steal Melissa back to normal life, Kiersten runs into an Outcast, Cactus Girl, who happened to be after Melissa herself. Cactus Girl believes Kiersten’s knowledge of her sister can help them catch Melissa and her colleagues. After Kiersten helps them with her sister, she decides to stick around, and become a true Outcast
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2016
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Gymnopédies . Gnossiennes
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GMAstalgia ...
The Shift Into Winter campaign officially kicks off, and we are reminding everyone to prepare their vehicle for winter weather conditions. Tires with the mountain snowflake symbol, which are specifically designed to meet cold weather performance standards, are the best choice for safe travel in winter conditions.
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2015TRAN0138-001654