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Utilized some photoshop tools to render a photo I took of this DCC from Everglades National Park at the Anhinga Trail into a watercolor image. Specifically, I used a Lucis Art filter as well as some watercolor filters. I finished the image with AFX edges.
Farm that utilized the USC fence post machine & The Grass Whisperer's help: this is a reformed farm with fences, grass buffers & stabilized roads that prevent manure & soil run-off into the near-by stream during heavy rains.
"Utilizing Cultural Diplomacy to Unite the World's Cultures Before Hard Power takes the Lead"
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Photos of my work as photographer at the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy (ICD). Berlin, Germany.
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Fotos pertenecientes a mi trabajo como fotográfo en el Institute for Cultural Diplomacy (ICD). Berlin, Alemania.
Vania Azevedo. First International Experts Workshop on Pre-breeding Utilizing Crop Wild Relatives, ICARDA, Rabat, Morocco, 24-26 April 2019. Photo: Michael Major/Crop Trust
"Utilizing Cultural Diplomacy to Unite the World's Cultures Before Hard Power takes the Lead"
(New York City; May 26th - 30th, 2016)
Photos of my work as photographer at the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy (ICD). Berlin, Germany.
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Fotos pertenecientes a mi trabajo como fotográfo en el Institute for Cultural Diplomacy (ICD). Berlin, Alemania.
"Utilizing Cultural Diplomacy to Foster Democracy, Advance International Law and Back Global Human Rights"
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First International Experts Workshop on Pre-breeding Utilizing Crop Wild Relatives, ICARDA, Rabat, Morocco, 24-26 April 2019. Photo: Michael Major/Crop Trust
Utilizes a Premium (Q5) Cree 7090 XR-E LED with a life of 50,000 hours
Two modes (6 types) of output, generation/turbo selected by turning the bezel (patented)
General Mode: 12 lumens (55hrs) -> 53 lumens (10.5hrs) -> 107 lumens (4hrs) -> SOS
Turbo Mode: 180 lumens (2.4hrs) -> Strobe
Digitally Regulated for Constant Brightness
Uses two 1.5V AA ( Alkaline, Ni-MH, Lithium ) batteries, inexpensive and widely available
Made of aircraft grade aluminum
Durable Type III hard anodized finish
Waterproof to IPX-8 Standard
Toughened ultra clear glass lens with AR coating
Push-button tail cap switch
Degu Wuletaw Tadesse. First International Experts Workshop on Pre-breeding Utilizing Crop Wild Relatives, ICARDA, Rabat, Morocco, 24-26 April 2019. Photo: Michael Major/Crop Trust
Alex Cotten(center) Strength & Conditioning coach for the TAMU-CC Cheer and Dance team utilizes the beach on campus for their morning work out.
"Utilizing Cultural Diplomacy to Unite the World's Cultures Before Hard Power takes the Lead"
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Photos of my work as photographer at the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy (ICD). Berlin, Germany.
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Fotos pertenecientes a mi trabajo como fotográfo en el Institute for Cultural Diplomacy (ICD). Berlin, Alemania.
The We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution National Finals is the nation's premier civics competition. High school students showcase their knowledge of the U.S. Constitution and American government over three days of intense competition. Now in its fifth decade, the National Finals serves as the finale to students' We the People educational journey. The competition utilizes simulated congressional hearings and typically features 48 teams representing states from every region. Learn more about We the People here: civiced.org/program-we-the-people
Photo by Drew Precious.
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Taking advantage of Proctor's excess yard space. I like GP9s, little sisters to the Missabe SD-9s that roamed here en mass.
Utilizing my amateur photography skills to help my friend Alex build a portfolio. And I brought some Flickr friends along to help.
Family trees utilize the "tree" hierarchy of information organization, literally showing parents as higher branches and their children below them.
"Utilizing Cultural Diplomacy to Unite the World's Cultures Before Hard Power takes the Lead"
(New York City; May 26th - 30th, 2016)
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Crews utilize a platform to assist with work associated with widening I-10 at the Kansas City Southern railroad work site.
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We bumped into to Evan Ide who was tending to this car. Had a nice chat but I did not ask for a photo. Evan Ide works with Bonhams, has been featured on Wayne Carini's "Chasing Classic Cars" several times, owns a classic car workshop in Massachusetts, and is an advisor to several major museum collections around the world.
Previewed at Scottsdale
Reconstructed 1904 Gordon Bennett Napier L48 "Samson" Racing Car
Sold at Amelia Island
Sold for US$742,000 inc. premium
Estimate: US$900,000 - US$1,100,000
Engine no. 1320A
15-Liter Inline 6-Cylinder F-Head Engine
Single 2 7/16" Carburetor
240bhp at 2,300rpm
2-Speed Manual Transmission
Beam Front Axle, Live Rear Axle
Rear-Wheel Mechanical Brakes
*Historic "tool room" recreation utilizing the original L48 engine which debuted in 1904
*The Napier L48 was the world's first successful six-cylinder racing car
*Napier's L48 famously broke the 100mph barrier with a Flying One Mile Record of 104.65mph, Ormond-Daytona Beach Meeting, 1905
*Driven by Dorothy Levitt to the Women's World Speed Record, October 1906
*Automobile Quarterly's 'Most Historically Significant Car' Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, 1999
*Goodwood Festival of Speed invitation, 1994 and 2000
THE NAPIER L48 "SAMSON" 15-LITER
"There is nothing in all of motoring quite like the massive displacement early racing cars. Driving this Napier you experience everything that makes this era so exciting. When setting off you are struck by just how tall the gearing is - first is like high in anything else. When you get the machine rolling and apply any throttle the machine hurls forward snapping your back in your seat. You are launched to over 50 mph before you can grasp what has happened and you are still in first gear! You need a bit more speed still to drop it in the only other gear and then it starts all over with the engine dropping to just a few hundred revs. When you open the throttle, it feels like it could go forever well past 100 mph. While thundering around in this beast one cannot help but be captivated by the fact that you are controlling the engine that set such a milestone world record." -Evan Ide, for Bonhams|Cars
This 'Edwardian Giant,' offered from the collection of its fifth owner in one hundred and twenty years, Australian businessman Peter Briggs. This "adventure capitalist" would surely have recognized himself in a car that shattered records and assumptions, and whose ownership and racing pedigree bring together for a most impressive roll call several of the most pioneering figures in the history of the automobile. The discovery of this engine in the 1950s to a complete body in the 1980s heralded the definitive rebirth into the motoring world of the L48 and its singular legacy any new owner must keep bright and burning the flame of transformation and perseverance this motor has ignited in all its custodians.
The Napier marque was begun by Montague Napier's father more than 100 years before the birth of the L48. Some years after Montague took over the large business it suffered a decline, and by 1900 was quite a small engineering shop producing products of a nonetheless superior precision, such as coin-weighing machines for the Royal Mint. Montague and his Australian-born collaborator Selwyn Francis Edge, a marketing wizard who cut his teeth in the hyper-competitive bicycle business, were eager to reposition Napier as an innovator in both business strategy and engineering. It was through endurance speed-cycling that the pair met the young engineer Arthur J Rowledge, a future assistant to Henry Royce, who would complete the team. Amongst the Bath Road Cycling Club members was S.F. Edge's wife, Eleanor Edge, who was also a pioneer motorist in her own right and a founding member of the world's first motoring club for women or "chauffeuses."
Around this time the British motor industry had struggled for recognition amongst the elite nations of motor manufacturing, namely France and Germany. Racing competitions were introducing weight limits so that extra weight could not be added to give greater grip to the very thin tires of racing cars of the time, which would slip against the road and wear out each time a cylinder fired. Every tire change cost time, and in one city-to-city race, Edge had to change 30 times. The French engineer and journalist who later founded the Le Mans 24 Hour Race, Charles Faroux, suggested to Edge that building a six-cylinder engine would address the problem, providing a smoother power delivery to the rear wheels and improving tire life. As part of his ambitious strategy of building powerful engines for the fastest cars and sending them to win high-profile international races¬, a kind of 'publicity stunt' that would become a favourite ploy of manufacturers, Edge announced in October 1903 that Napier would compete in the 1904 racing season, which would become the world's first successful six-cylinder car.
The purpose of the 'L48', the works racing car, conceived as an improvement of the market-leading Panhard Levassor and of Napier's own K5, was to break the Land Speed Record. The victory of the K5 at the 1902 Gordon Bennett Cup and its failure to secure the title the following year, had both proven instructive. For 1902 Edge had persuaded Napier to build a car weighing significantly below the 1000 kg limit even if this meant a lower powered car; although the K5 with its pressed-steel chassis could not approach the speeds attained by its competitors, these faster cars broke down and did not finish. Napier's loss the following year was in part an effect of rushed production, but the engine was still somewhat outdated. Napier retained from the K5 the chassis, suspension, steering, clutch, and rear axle. On the other hand, the automatic intake valves were connected to mechanical operation, bringing the maximum power from 80bhp to 100bhp at 1524rpm. The three-speed gearbox could not be retained as space and weight problems with the longer six-cylinder engine necessitated the use of as short two-speed and reverse gear. Galvanized by the publicity of the 1902 Gordon Bennett win in France, which had translated directly into a surge in orders and the massive growth of the business, the new goal for the Napier team was not simply to return to old glories but to exceed itself as well as the competition.
It is unlikely that Rowledge was alone responsible for the design. The basic concept of the six-cylinder engine was brilliant with its overlapping firing periods providing a smother power deliver, but it is unthinkable that a designer of his caliber could have been responsible for such defective details as the cylinders with crewed-on cast iron valve chest or the multi-seated faced intake values with minimal lift. History does not record the other hands that were part of this leap in mechanical engineering. Napier did not build the first six-cylinder car – Spyker built one in 1902 but it was not a success and is today part of the collection of the Louwman Museum in The Netherlands. When the Napier was finalized on 10th April 1903, no six-cylinder car of any make had been sold anywhere in the world, so Napier and Edge showed amazing confidence in building such a racing engine. Later, the first recorded sale of a six-cylinder car was a Napier touring model, having been first demonstrated in June that same year.
With the works car ready to be deployed onto the battlefield of industrial rivalries, S.F. Edge set himself with assembling a team for the Gordon Bennett Cup in Germany; he could not cross the Atlantic, so turned to the team of amateur and professional drivers at his disposal. Previously, the manager of the Dunlop Cycle Racing Team, he applied his experience to create what was the first great British motor racing team. Following the 1904 failure, the front of the new race car was extensively revised to include a streamlined nose and an exterior radiator. A spectacle with its 242ft ¼" copper pipe used for the unique 80-tube radiator, holding 20 gallons, operating at atmospheric pressure, the lines of copper tubing were as much about making the Napier L48 distinctive as about cooling. The combination of good looks and ambitious engineering was not sufficient to guarantee success: talented pilots with a grip to match the shoulder-width steering wheel, and with the feet of a dancer for peddling the throttle and brake of this 151-inch machine – the ultimate mount for the elite drivers.
The L48 was first raced in September 1904 at the Portmarnock Sands Speed Trials in Ireland, where it put up fastest time. That same month saw the Napier return to the Continent at the Gaillon Hill Climb in France, where the twenty-two-year-old British driver, Arthur MacDonald, completed the Flying Kilometer in 29.4 seconds, setting a record that would be beaten in a subsequent run by the Gobron-Brillié and then later by Darracq. The L48 finished third.
The car's greatest victory was won on the 25th of January 1905 on a stretch of sand between Florida's Ormond and Daytona Beaches where cars could realize their full potential on flat land unencumbered by speed limits. With Englishman Arthur MacDonald at the wheel, the Napier broke the Flying One Mile World Record of 104.65mph (or, 106.64mph). It was the first car to record 100 mph on American Soil and the first British car to crack the 100-mph barrier. Other achievements at the Velocity Weekend included the Flying Kilometer (American Record) 97.26 mph; the World's Competitive Kilometer Record (Standing Start) 81.6 mph; the World's Competitive Mile 96.25 mph; the World's Five Mile Record 91.37 mph; the World's Ten Miles Record 96.00 mph (winning the Miller Trophy); and the World's Twenty Miles Record 89.21 mph (winning the Thomas Trophy).
Six months later, on a glorious day, near Auvergne, France, at the Gordon Bennett Cup, British entrant Napier was the fastest over the kilometer with the L48 but finished the race in ninth place due to poor preparation. The car returned to the Daytona Beach Speed Trials in 1906, piloted by Walter Thomas Clifford Earp, dubbed 'England's Leading Gentleman Driver' by the Washington Post. The Los Angeles Times concurred that, 'England has certainly sent her best, both in a man and machine, to battle for the world's supremacy in automobile speed.' The other five racers were: Vincenzo Lancia driving a Fiat (he would later manufacture Lancia cars in Italy), Louis Chevrolet driving a Christie, Emanuel Cedrino from in Italy in a Fiat, William H Hilliard from Boston in an ex-Gordon Bennett racing car Napier, and J.R. Harding from Boston in a Daimler. At the 32-mile mark, disaster struck. The Napier's right rear tyre exploded, throwing fragments of rubber all over the beach to the horror of spectators. In the previous year, the car had wooden spoked wheels, but this time it had the first Rudge Whitworth wire wheels, he was confident could withstand the side strain on cornering. At fifty-eight miles, Cedrino was a handy seven minutes ahead of Clifford-Earp, but he too encountered trouble with his tires and began to slow down. In a moment of sheer brilliance, he stopped his car next to Vincenzo Lancia's car and proceeded to remove two tubes from the stranded car to put on his own wheels. He would not be denied. It was now a race of two, with Earp on three wheels about three minutes ahead, with Cedrino chasing behind with fresh tires and tubes. Clifford-Earp's winning margin was only 50 seconds after 100 miles. Despite racing 63 miles on only three tires, he had set a world record time of 1:15:40-2/5sec or 79.288 mph, beating the previous time by three minutes. Amongst the spectators, "pandemonium broke loose" was reported. The win was instantly legendary, later inspiring racing historian Dick Punett to title his book on the Ormond and Daytona Beach tournaments "Racing on the Rim" in tribute to this remarkable feat.
Clifford Earp and Arthur MacDonald were not the only drivers to find success behind the wheel of the L48 in this period of 'Edwardian Giants'. October 1906 saw Dorothy Levitt establish the Women's World Speed Record over the Flying Kilometer with a speed of 90.88 mph at the Blackpool Motor Race Meeting. Between 1906 and 1908, the Napier continued to be raced, gaining an even larger 20-litre engine along the way. The car was nicknamed 'Samson', a nod to the resemblance of the engine's copper cooling tubes to the flowing locks of the biblical strongman.
Fifteen miles away from their new factory in Acton, London, Brooklands, the world's first purpose-built 'banked' motor racing circuit was the place for high-speed testing. At a time where blanket speed limits were 20 mph. In November 1908, on the "Byfleet" banking, 'Samson' achieved a top speed of 130 mph. A record lap which stood for six years. In the months leading up to this achievement, L48 had set many more records including: first in the Thirty Mile Race (Montague Cup); 90 hp Ten Lap record raised to 102.21 mph and Half-Mile record raised to 114.98 mph; 90 hp Class short record pushed up to 119.34 mph.
The car was eventually sold for scrap by Napier. Fatigued by such an eventful career, it had become too dangerous for fast driving. In 1909 the second engine was taken out of the chassis and installed in a speedboat. This had been the fate of the first engine with the larger bore of 6¼", which was bought from S.F. Edge by speedboat racers Percy and Fred Cornwell of Cornwell Pottery, Melbourne, for the speedboat 'Nautilus II'. Napier had become the only manufacturer in the world to hold both the world land and the world water speed records. In 1905, Mr. Tucker and his Jarrow-Napier motorboat had achieved 30 knots; Albert I, Prince of Monaco, bestowed upon S.F. Edge the Order of St Charles in recognition of his achievement.
The story of the engine's survival after its racing career begins with Alan 'Bob' Hawker Chamberlain, manufacturer of the celebrated Australian-made Chamberlain Tractors. The Hawker name resonates: Bob's uncle was Harry Hawker, best known as the aviator and engineer associated with the Sopwith Camel and the Hawker aviation firm. Faced with the choice to either to polish this relic of the racing's golden age and put it on a stand in a museum, or to recreate the original car around the engine, the engineer's decision was of course in favor of the more ambitious line of action. Had the car been of a more conventional design, Chamberlain may not have bothered to re-construct the car.
At the Cornwell pottery factory where the engine was rediscovered, only the intake valve rocker arms and domes were visible, poking through the dust. England's Motor Sport magazine printed a photograph of Chamberlain's engine block with a notice asking for information, to which Anthony Heal responded by sharing the research he had conducted into Napier over several years. Fortunately, unlike other manufacturers, Napier did not destroy their records. The archiving efforts of enthusiasts such as Heal and Derek Grosmark enabled Bob Chamberlain to rebuild the Napier with characteristic thoroughness. When enlarged, excellent photographs of the engine taken in June 1904 even showed details of the casting imperfections. During the original construction of the car in the early 20th century, hundreds of wooden casting patterns had to be made as every component of the engine was a new design, so much was the engine at the cutting edge of engineering. Chamberlain did the same, reproducing from photographs and plans hundreds of wooden casting patterns to form the car presently offered at this sale. Chamberlain's friend found an article in an English motor journal which included original assembly drawings of the L48 engine, and it was learned that these were printed from the original and well-preserved ink on linen drawings held by a London Museum. These left no doubt that the engine found in Australia was the first and original one used in the Napier racing car L48.
The rebuilt engine was started for the first time in sixty-seven years on the 8th of July 1982, and it is said to have started on its first turn. It was tested on a dynamometer and showed almost 180 bhp at 161km/h. Journalist, author and stalwart Editor of the famed Motor Sport magazine, Bill Boddy, who had been a critic of poorly executed replicas, said in Motor Sport magazine in 1988, 'Whether or not you approve of the modern reconstruction of old cars, you must concede that this is the recreation of the decade'.
In May 1982 the car was shipped to the United Kingdom and campaigned twice, appearing in the June 1983 Brooklands Reunion and the July 1983 Shelsley Walsh Hill Climb. Australian F1 driver Tony Gaze drove it at the Colerne Sprints in 1983 and recorded a standing start kilometer in 30.67 seconds with a terminal speed of 111.73 mph. A record which stands in perpetuity, despite the best efforts of many potent Edwardian racing cars whilst this course was in use. In May 1983 the L48 was again shipped to the United Kingdom, getting its first high speed run at Donnington (Tom Wheatcroft had visited Australia to see the reconstruction underway).
To an independent Melbourne evening auction of the 23rd of April 1993, the Chamberlain family consigned the Napier and two other important cars: 1910 Craig "Prince Henry" Benz works racing car, and the Erle/Syme "Prince Henry" Benz works racing car. That night saw ownership transfer to Peter Briggs and his wife Robin. Mr. Briggs housed the car in his York Motor Museum, Western Australia, but the couple took it out on many an excursion.
John Keenan undertook primary research on the car when it went into the York Motor Museum, building on that already collated by Chamberlain. This attention to detail and careful mining of archival material further enhanced L48 earning Briggs invitations to show and compete the car at world's foremost events, including the annual Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance in 1999. Previously, at the 49th edition of this prestigious event, Automobile Quarterly awarded the car the most historically significant car. In 2000, the Napier was once again invited, by the then Lord March, to the Goodwood Festival of Speed hill climb where Peter Briggs took it to a class win. Graeme Cocks had the opportunity to exploit the power with a 160km/h run at the historic claypan of Lake Perkolilli in the Goldfields of Western Australia in 2007.
Something of the same spirit behind the engineering and commercial excellence of Napier, Edge and Rowledge, fired Bob Chamberlain's desire to feel what it was like to drive and race one of Britain's and the world's greatest race cars. Peter Briggs as a custodian enjoyed showing and rallying the car with his beloved Robin, recognizing in it the same perseverance and capacity for transformation that earned him pre-eminence in Australian business. To be the next custodian of the greatest British car from the "heroic age" of motor sport is to provide yourself with a passport to the world's best competitive events on the lawn and tarmac, including the S.F. Edge Trophy at the Goodwood Member's Meeting. Be part of the story of two cars separated by three-quarters of a century which share one heart and soul: its extraordinary engine.
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It's a cool rainy pre-auction day at Bonhams. We've come for the cars, as we do, and another pre-auction tour by Andy Reid who is considered an expert in European sports and luxury cars and is a respected concours judge.
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It's Scottsdale Car Week! I flew here and Fred drove with Harriet for some warmer weather, friend visits, and cars!
Cannons utilized at the Battle of Chickamauga:
Left to right: 6-pounder, 12-pounder Napoleon, 8-inch ordinance rifle
Chickamauga Battlefield, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, Fort Orglethrope, Georgia
"Utilizing Cultural Diplomacy to Unite the World's Cultures Before Hard Power takes the Lead"
(New York City; May 26th - 30th, 2016)
Photos of my work as photographer at the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy (ICD). Berlin, Germany.
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Fotos pertenecientes a mi trabajo como fotográfo en el Institute for Cultural Diplomacy (ICD). Berlin, Alemania.
"Utilizing Cultural Diplomacy to Unite the World's Cultures Before Hard Power takes the Lead"
(New York City; May 26th - 30th, 2016)
Photos of my work as photographer at the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy (ICD). Berlin, Germany.
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Fotos pertenecientes a mi trabajo como fotográfo en el Institute for Cultural Diplomacy (ICD). Berlin, Alemania.
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Series of traditional illustrations utilizing ink, water color, color pencils, and markers reflecting different stories selected from the library book collection. These framed pieces are my own interpretations of excerpts found in these vintage books.
Reason to Give presents New Life for Old Classics Gallery Opening November 5th, Barista Coffee House in Chicago
Proceeds benefit Lafayette Merit Music Program through ReasontoGive.com
Utilizing my new "Super Blue" filter to give a nearly SOOC false-color IR shot. Assisted by a bit of merging to HDR and post with Color Efex Pro.
NYPA Incentive Overview: ¥280 kilowatts of low-cost RNY expansion power; 25 new jobs (allocated in 2014 and utilized this past April). ¥800 kilowatts of low-cost RNY retention power; 198 retained jobs (allocated and utilized in 2012). ¥The HP Hood Oneida location has saved more than $350,000 as part of RNY since joining the program in 2012 (more than $67,000 saved in 2017). ¥In 2017 alone, HP Hood saved more than $150,000 at all four of its RNY participating locations throughout the state. (Note: HP Hood is comfortable with us sharing the savings numbers if asked by media.) Background: The HP Hood expansion included the installation of an additional milk production line, cold storage, food security and expanded facility capacity. The Oneida facility produces approximately 113 various milk and fluid products. It supplies major warehouse operations that provide foodservice, retail and wholesale firms with a full line of dairy products manufactured in Oneida and from other HP Hood manufacturing facilities. HP Hood has been a NYPA ReCharge NY customer since 2012 when NYPA’s Board of Trustees awarded the Oneida location with 800 kW of retention power under the program. In addition to serving HP Hood in Oneida, NYPA also provides low-cost ReCharge NY power to HP Hood locations in Arkport (Steuben County in the Southern Tier), LaFargeville (Jefferson County in the North Country) and Vernon (Oneida County, Mohawk Valley). As announced by Governor Cuomo last year, HP Hood is also currently renovating a facility in Batavia (Genesee County in the Finger Lakes) that will be operational in 2019, creating 230 new jobs (the NYPA Board of Trustees will be reviewing an application for the Batavia location at the July 31 meeting). HP Hood Tour, Oneida NY HP Hood Tour Photos by Trish Hennessy
We bumped into to Evan Ide who was tending to this car. Had a nice chat but I did not ask for a photo. Evan Ide works with Bonhams, has been featured on Wayne Carini's "Chasing Classic Cars" several times, owns a classic car workshop in Massachusetts, and is an advisor to several major museum collections around the world.
Previewed at Scottsdale
Reconstructed 1904 Gordon Bennett Napier L48 "Samson" Racing Car
Sold at Amelia Island
Sold for US$742,000 inc. premium
Estimate: US$900,000 - US$1,100,000
Engine no. 1320A
15-Liter Inline 6-Cylinder F-Head Engine
Single 2 7/16" Carburetor
240bhp at 2,300rpm
2-Speed Manual Transmission
Beam Front Axle, Live Rear Axle
Rear-Wheel Mechanical Brakes
*Historic "tool room" recreation utilizing the original L48 engine which debuted in 1904
*The Napier L48 was the world's first successful six-cylinder racing car
*Napier's L48 famously broke the 100mph barrier with a Flying One Mile Record of 104.65mph, Ormond-Daytona Beach Meeting, 1905
*Driven by Dorothy Levitt to the Women's World Speed Record, October 1906
*Automobile Quarterly's 'Most Historically Significant Car' Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, 1999
*Goodwood Festival of Speed invitation, 1994 and 2000
THE NAPIER L48 "SAMSON" 15-LITER
"There is nothing in all of motoring quite like the massive displacement early racing cars. Driving this Napier you experience everything that makes this era so exciting. When setting off you are struck by just how tall the gearing is - first is like high in anything else. When you get the machine rolling and apply any throttle the machine hurls forward snapping your back in your seat. You are launched to over 50 mph before you can grasp what has happened and you are still in first gear! You need a bit more speed still to drop it in the only other gear and then it starts all over with the engine dropping to just a few hundred revs. When you open the throttle, it feels like it could go forever well past 100 mph. While thundering around in this beast one cannot help but be captivated by the fact that you are controlling the engine that set such a milestone world record." -Evan Ide, for Bonhams|Cars
This 'Edwardian Giant,' offered from the collection of its fifth owner in one hundred and twenty years, Australian businessman Peter Briggs. This "adventure capitalist" would surely have recognized himself in a car that shattered records and assumptions, and whose ownership and racing pedigree bring together for a most impressive roll call several of the most pioneering figures in the history of the automobile. The discovery of this engine in the 1950s to a complete body in the 1980s heralded the definitive rebirth into the motoring world of the L48 and its singular legacy any new owner must keep bright and burning the flame of transformation and perseverance this motor has ignited in all its custodians.
The Napier marque was begun by Montague Napier's father more than 100 years before the birth of the L48. Some years after Montague took over the large business it suffered a decline, and by 1900 was quite a small engineering shop producing products of a nonetheless superior precision, such as coin-weighing machines for the Royal Mint. Montague and his Australian-born collaborator Selwyn Francis Edge, a marketing wizard who cut his teeth in the hyper-competitive bicycle business, were eager to reposition Napier as an innovator in both business strategy and engineering. It was through endurance speed-cycling that the pair met the young engineer Arthur J Rowledge, a future assistant to Henry Royce, who would complete the team. Amongst the Bath Road Cycling Club members was S.F. Edge's wife, Eleanor Edge, who was also a pioneer motorist in her own right and a founding member of the world's first motoring club for women or "chauffeuses."
Around this time the British motor industry had struggled for recognition amongst the elite nations of motor manufacturing, namely France and Germany. Racing competitions were introducing weight limits so that extra weight could not be added to give greater grip to the very thin tires of racing cars of the time, which would slip against the road and wear out each time a cylinder fired. Every tire change cost time, and in one city-to-city race, Edge had to change 30 times. The French engineer and journalist who later founded the Le Mans 24 Hour Race, Charles Faroux, suggested to Edge that building a six-cylinder engine would address the problem, providing a smoother power delivery to the rear wheels and improving tire life. As part of his ambitious strategy of building powerful engines for the fastest cars and sending them to win high-profile international races¬, a kind of 'publicity stunt' that would become a favourite ploy of manufacturers, Edge announced in October 1903 that Napier would compete in the 1904 racing season, which would become the world's first successful six-cylinder car.
The purpose of the 'L48', the works racing car, conceived as an improvement of the market-leading Panhard Levassor and of Napier's own K5, was to break the Land Speed Record. The victory of the K5 at the 1902 Gordon Bennett Cup and its failure to secure the title the following year, had both proven instructive. For 1902 Edge had persuaded Napier to build a car weighing significantly below the 1000 kg limit even if this meant a lower powered car; although the K5 with its pressed-steel chassis could not approach the speeds attained by its competitors, these faster cars broke down and did not finish. Napier's loss the following year was in part an effect of rushed production, but the engine was still somewhat outdated. Napier retained from the K5 the chassis, suspension, steering, clutch, and rear axle. On the other hand, the automatic intake valves were connected to mechanical operation, bringing the maximum power from 80bhp to 100bhp at 1524rpm. The three-speed gearbox could not be retained as space and weight problems with the longer six-cylinder engine necessitated the use of as short two-speed and reverse gear. Galvanized by the publicity of the 1902 Gordon Bennett win in France, which had translated directly into a surge in orders and the massive growth of the business, the new goal for the Napier team was not simply to return to old glories but to exceed itself as well as the competition.
It is unlikely that Rowledge was alone responsible for the design. The basic concept of the six-cylinder engine was brilliant with its overlapping firing periods providing a smother power deliver, but it is unthinkable that a designer of his caliber could have been responsible for such defective details as the cylinders with crewed-on cast iron valve chest or the multi-seated faced intake values with minimal lift. History does not record the other hands that were part of this leap in mechanical engineering. Napier did not build the first six-cylinder car – Spyker built one in 1902 but it was not a success and is today part of the collection of the Louwman Museum in The Netherlands. When the Napier was finalized on 10th April 1903, no six-cylinder car of any make had been sold anywhere in the world, so Napier and Edge showed amazing confidence in building such a racing engine. Later, the first recorded sale of a six-cylinder car was a Napier touring model, having been first demonstrated in June that same year.
With the works car ready to be deployed onto the battlefield of industrial rivalries, S.F. Edge set himself with assembling a team for the Gordon Bennett Cup in Germany; he could not cross the Atlantic, so turned to the team of amateur and professional drivers at his disposal. Previously, the manager of the Dunlop Cycle Racing Team, he applied his experience to create what was the first great British motor racing team. Following the 1904 failure, the front of the new race car was extensively revised to include a streamlined nose and an exterior radiator. A spectacle with its 242ft ¼" copper pipe used for the unique 80-tube radiator, holding 20 gallons, operating at atmospheric pressure, the lines of copper tubing were as much about making the Napier L48 distinctive as about cooling. The combination of good looks and ambitious engineering was not sufficient to guarantee success: talented pilots with a grip to match the shoulder-width steering wheel, and with the feet of a dancer for peddling the throttle and brake of this 151-inch machine – the ultimate mount for the elite drivers.
The L48 was first raced in September 1904 at the Portmarnock Sands Speed Trials in Ireland, where it put up fastest time. That same month saw the Napier return to the Continent at the Gaillon Hill Climb in France, where the twenty-two-year-old British driver, Arthur MacDonald, completed the Flying Kilometer in 29.4 seconds, setting a record that would be beaten in a subsequent run by the Gobron-Brillié and then later by Darracq. The L48 finished third.
The car's greatest victory was won on the 25th of January 1905 on a stretch of sand between Florida's Ormond and Daytona Beaches where cars could realize their full potential on flat land unencumbered by speed limits. With Englishman Arthur MacDonald at the wheel, the Napier broke the Flying One Mile World Record of 104.65mph (or, 106.64mph). It was the first car to record 100 mph on American Soil and the first British car to crack the 100-mph barrier. Other achievements at the Velocity Weekend included the Flying Kilometer (American Record) 97.26 mph; the World's Competitive Kilometer Record (Standing Start) 81.6 mph; the World's Competitive Mile 96.25 mph; the World's Five Mile Record 91.37 mph; the World's Ten Miles Record 96.00 mph (winning the Miller Trophy); and the World's Twenty Miles Record 89.21 mph (winning the Thomas Trophy).
Six months later, on a glorious day, near Auvergne, France, at the Gordon Bennett Cup, British entrant Napier was the fastest over the kilometer with the L48 but finished the race in ninth place due to poor preparation. The car returned to the Daytona Beach Speed Trials in 1906, piloted by Walter Thomas Clifford Earp, dubbed 'England's Leading Gentleman Driver' by the Washington Post. The Los Angeles Times concurred that, 'England has certainly sent her best, both in a man and machine, to battle for the world's supremacy in automobile speed.' The other five racers were: Vincenzo Lancia driving a Fiat (he would later manufacture Lancia cars in Italy), Louis Chevrolet driving a Christie, Emanuel Cedrino from in Italy in a Fiat, William H Hilliard from Boston in an ex-Gordon Bennett racing car Napier, and J.R. Harding from Boston in a Daimler. At the 32-mile mark, disaster struck. The Napier's right rear tyre exploded, throwing fragments of rubber all over the beach to the horror of spectators. In the previous year, the car had wooden spoked wheels, but this time it had the first Rudge Whitworth wire wheels, he was confident could withstand the side strain on cornering. At fifty-eight miles, Cedrino was a handy seven minutes ahead of Clifford-Earp, but he too encountered trouble with his tires and began to slow down. In a moment of sheer brilliance, he stopped his car next to Vincenzo Lancia's car and proceeded to remove two tubes from the stranded car to put on his own wheels. He would not be denied. It was now a race of two, with Earp on three wheels about three minutes ahead, with Cedrino chasing behind with fresh tires and tubes. Clifford-Earp's winning margin was only 50 seconds after 100 miles. Despite racing 63 miles on only three tires, he had set a world record time of 1:15:40-2/5sec or 79.288 mph, beating the previous time by three minutes. Amongst the spectators, "pandemonium broke loose" was reported. The win was instantly legendary, later inspiring racing historian Dick Punett to title his book on the Ormond and Daytona Beach tournaments "Racing on the Rim" in tribute to this remarkable feat.
Clifford Earp and Arthur MacDonald were not the only drivers to find success behind the wheel of the L48 in this period of 'Edwardian Giants'. October 1906 saw Dorothy Levitt establish the Women's World Speed Record over the Flying Kilometer with a speed of 90.88 mph at the Blackpool Motor Race Meeting. Between 1906 and 1908, the Napier continued to be raced, gaining an even larger 20-litre engine along the way. The car was nicknamed 'Samson', a nod to the resemblance of the engine's copper cooling tubes to the flowing locks of the biblical strongman.
Fifteen miles away from their new factory in Acton, London, Brooklands, the world's first purpose-built 'banked' motor racing circuit was the place for high-speed testing. At a time where blanket speed limits were 20 mph. In November 1908, on the "Byfleet" banking, 'Samson' achieved a top speed of 130 mph. A record lap which stood for six years. In the months leading up to this achievement, L48 had set many more records including: first in the Thirty Mile Race (Montague Cup); 90 hp Ten Lap record raised to 102.21 mph and Half-Mile record raised to 114.98 mph; 90 hp Class short record pushed up to 119.34 mph.
The car was eventually sold for scrap by Napier. Fatigued by such an eventful career, it had become too dangerous for fast driving. In 1909 the second engine was taken out of the chassis and installed in a speedboat. This had been the fate of the first engine with the larger bore of 6¼", which was bought from S.F. Edge by speedboat racers Percy and Fred Cornwell of Cornwell Pottery, Melbourne, for the speedboat 'Nautilus II'. Napier had become the only manufacturer in the world to hold both the world land and the world water speed records. In 1905, Mr. Tucker and his Jarrow-Napier motorboat had achieved 30 knots; Albert I, Prince of Monaco, bestowed upon S.F. Edge the Order of St Charles in recognition of his achievement.
The story of the engine's survival after its racing career begins with Alan 'Bob' Hawker Chamberlain, manufacturer of the celebrated Australian-made Chamberlain Tractors. The Hawker name resonates: Bob's uncle was Harry Hawker, best known as the aviator and engineer associated with the Sopwith Camel and the Hawker aviation firm. Faced with the choice to either to polish this relic of the racing's golden age and put it on a stand in a museum, or to recreate the original car around the engine, the engineer's decision was of course in favor of the more ambitious line of action. Had the car been of a more conventional design, Chamberlain may not have bothered to re-construct the car.
At the Cornwell pottery factory where the engine was rediscovered, only the intake valve rocker arms and domes were visible, poking through the dust. England's Motor Sport magazine printed a photograph of Chamberlain's engine block with a notice asking for information, to which Anthony Heal responded by sharing the research he had conducted into Napier over several years. Fortunately, unlike other manufacturers, Napier did not destroy their records. The archiving efforts of enthusiasts such as Heal and Derek Grosmark enabled Bob Chamberlain to rebuild the Napier with characteristic thoroughness. When enlarged, excellent photographs of the engine taken in June 1904 even showed details of the casting imperfections. During the original construction of the car in the early 20th century, hundreds of wooden casting patterns had to be made as every component of the engine was a new design, so much was the engine at the cutting edge of engineering. Chamberlain did the same, reproducing from photographs and plans hundreds of wooden casting patterns to form the car presently offered at this sale. Chamberlain's friend found an article in an English motor journal which included original assembly drawings of the L48 engine, and it was learned that these were printed from the original and well-preserved ink on linen drawings held by a London Museum. These left no doubt that the engine found in Australia was the first and original one used in the Napier racing car L48.
The rebuilt engine was started for the first time in sixty-seven years on the 8th of July 1982, and it is said to have started on its first turn. It was tested on a dynamometer and showed almost 180 bhp at 161km/h. Journalist, author and stalwart Editor of the famed Motor Sport magazine, Bill Boddy, who had been a critic of poorly executed replicas, said in Motor Sport magazine in 1988, 'Whether or not you approve of the modern reconstruction of old cars, you must concede that this is the recreation of the decade'.
In May 1982 the car was shipped to the United Kingdom and campaigned twice, appearing in the June 1983 Brooklands Reunion and the July 1983 Shelsley Walsh Hill Climb. Australian F1 driver Tony Gaze drove it at the Colerne Sprints in 1983 and recorded a standing start kilometer in 30.67 seconds with a terminal speed of 111.73 mph. A record which stands in perpetuity, despite the best efforts of many potent Edwardian racing cars whilst this course was in use. In May 1983 the L48 was again shipped to the United Kingdom, getting its first high speed run at Donnington (Tom Wheatcroft had visited Australia to see the reconstruction underway).
To an independent Melbourne evening auction of the 23rd of April 1993, the Chamberlain family consigned the Napier and two other important cars: 1910 Craig "Prince Henry" Benz works racing car, and the Erle/Syme "Prince Henry" Benz works racing car. That night saw ownership transfer to Peter Briggs and his wife Robin. Mr. Briggs housed the car in his York Motor Museum, Western Australia, but the couple took it out on many an excursion.
John Keenan undertook primary research on the car when it went into the York Motor Museum, building on that already collated by Chamberlain. This attention to detail and careful mining of archival material further enhanced L48 earning Briggs invitations to show and compete the car at world's foremost events, including the annual Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance in 1999. Previously, at the 49th edition of this prestigious event, Automobile Quarterly awarded the car the most historically significant car. In 2000, the Napier was once again invited, by the then Lord March, to the Goodwood Festival of Speed hill climb where Peter Briggs took it to a class win. Graeme Cocks had the opportunity to exploit the power with a 160km/h run at the historic claypan of Lake Perkolilli in the Goldfields of Western Australia in 2007.
Something of the same spirit behind the engineering and commercial excellence of Napier, Edge and Rowledge, fired Bob Chamberlain's desire to feel what it was like to drive and race one of Britain's and the world's greatest race cars. Peter Briggs as a custodian enjoyed showing and rallying the car with his beloved Robin, recognizing in it the same perseverance and capacity for transformation that earned him pre-eminence in Australian business. To be the next custodian of the greatest British car from the "heroic age" of motor sport is to provide yourself with a passport to the world's best competitive events on the lawn and tarmac, including the S.F. Edge Trophy at the Goodwood Member's Meeting. Be part of the story of two cars separated by three-quarters of a century which share one heart and soul: its extraordinary engine.
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A role-playing activity was the beginning of the kickoff in the classrooms. Each student had the chance to play roles such as the bully, the bullied, possible defenders, as well as others. The intent of the activity is to illustrate how students are often presented with the opportunity to stand up to bullying throughout their school careers. In addition to the role play, students were given the opportunity to write anti-bullying essays or create posters to illustrate the program and our focus on ending bullying in our building
Students participated in team building activities around the gym designed to build skills in communication, problem solving, and listening.
The first activity was called "Picture Pieces". This problem solving activity instructed students to recreate an exact copy of their piece of the puzzle. The participants put their pieces together to form one image. They were posed with the challenge of not knowing what their group members had and were able to see how one person contributes to an overall group result.
The next activity focused on communication. Students worked in pairs to give verbal directions to a partner as they draw a simple image. The entire group shared their image to see which pair was able to communicate and recreate the image closest to the actual picture.
The following two activities focused on trust, communication, and listening skills. Students work in pairs to guide their partner through a "mine field" while they are blind folded. Students had to get to the other side without hitting any of the items. A variation of this game required students to walk to a location blind folded and retrieve as many items as they could as their partner guided them verbally. The last station was a photo booth where students formed many group poses with props to help send a "No Bullying" message.
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