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Little photoshoot including this VW Beetle Turbo.
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Camera: Canon EOS 7D
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-135mm 1:3,5-5,6 IS
Exposure: 0.4 sec
Aperture: f/7,1
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Hoya Pro1 Circular PL Filter
Massive(!) use of external flashes ;)
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My university is normally devoid of older cars so this was a surprise and definitely the best thing I have ever seen there. An early flat-fronted 900 Turbo, it looked immaculate and still has the original dealer plates from the seemingly long gone White Horse Garage of Banbury.
Porsche 911 Turbo GT America GTS, Brumos Porsche, driven by Hans-Joachim Stuck, Walter Röhrl and Hurley Haywood finished 11th after starting 12th.
The exhaust-driven turbo-supercharger was a top secret item in the late-1930s and early 1940s and the neutral USA refused an export licence for such items in 1940 when the RAF purchased its first North American P51 Mustangs, the Allison Engine Company supplying naturally aspirated engines instead. As circumstances turned out this led to Packard (under Rolls-Royce licence) providing supercharged Merlins for most P51s built for all Allied forces.
By 1960 although turbocharging haulage diesel engines was not commonplace it was known open-source technology; most notably the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Company were running turbocharged coaches from Birmingham and Worcester to London via the new motorway.
BSA were one British manufacturer building them, and another was Simms, using a licenced West German design.
This is about the most artistic advert in the 1960 show edition of Passenger Transport, only the Cavalier coming close, but also effective in its terse commentary and the use of a new and used turbocharger in the picture.
These days I can not imagine a normally aspirated engine (petrol or diesel) being allowed for a new bus or coach.
© 1960 Simms Motor Units Ltd, reproduced for purposes of scholarship and research.
A three-car Class 170 'Turbostar' DMU threads the Gala Water Valley at Burnhouse Mains on the £294m Borders Railway. The set forms the 17.28 Tweedbank-Edinburgh Waverley working. The 35-mile line is effectively the northern third of the former Waverley Route, a controversial Beeching era closure in 1969. @17.50