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1934 Ford Truck built ground up by Ed Riley of Crosby,Tx. This truck has 350 hp Chevy LS1 Motor and weighs 2500. The truck was built to drive on the street, go to the Car Shows, and just have fun.
1934 Ford Truck built ground up by Ed Riley of Crosby,Tx. This truck has 350 hp Chevy LS1 Motor and weighs 2500. The truck was built to drive on the street, go to the Car Shows, and just have fun.
1934 Ford Truck built ground up by Ed Riley of Crosby,Tx. This truck has 350 hp Chevy LS1 Motor and weighs 2500. The truck was built to drive on the street, go to the Car Shows, and just have fun.
1934 Ford Truck built ground up by Ed Riley of Crosby,Tx. This truck has 350 hp LS1 Chevy Motor and weighs 2500. There is a Custom Built Pro-Street Frame with a 9" Ford Rearend and a Kuggel Front end. The truck was built to drive on the street, go to the Car Shows, and just have fun.
The Aristocrat Custom Built trumpets were multi-pitch horns that could be tuned to Bb or A.
The main tuning slide has two sections. Note the two rounded vertical braces just behind the "C" shaped brace in the main slide's crook. Those braces support an independent stretch of tubing.
When tuning to regular Bb, you just adjusted the main slide as usual, sliding the whole main assembly in and out. When you wanted to tune to A, you slid the main slide out and then pulled the portion of the slide assembly with the "C" brace even farther out.
Note the knurled ring on tubing extending from the third valve case to the main slide. Just to the right of that ring you can threading in the tube. The ring is a threaded ferrule used to lock the slide into position when it was extended.
Note the bushing at the end of the receiver. That general style of receiver mouth had been characteristic of Buescher brass instruments since the 1930s, except for the very first Custom Built model trumpets introduced in 1935, Models 235 and 237.
The pre-war Custom Built models were loaded with nickel-silver components. However, the Model 215 is an all-brass horn.
Buescher was always ready to take special orders; features like nickel-silver receivers were probably a standard option available for the asking.
The 265 cornet could be played in Bb or A. Note the main tuning slide and then the smaller slide with a stippled metal ring on the tubing next to the foot of that slide's vertical bracing post.
That ring is a threaded locking ferrule. When you wanted to tune the horn to A you pulled out that slide and then tightened the ferrule to lock it in position, and then pulled out the other slides to further tune down the horn.
Note the nickel-silver used in the slide crooks; Buescher also used nickel-silver on the various slide assembly's internal tubing.
1934 Ford Truck built ground up by Ed Riley of Crosby,Tx. This truck has 350 hp LS1 Chevy Motor and weighs 2500. There is a Custom Built Pro-Street Frame with a 9" Ford Rearend and a Kuggel Front end. The truck was built to drive on the street, go to the Car Shows, and just have fun.
1934 Ford Truck built ground up by Ed Riley of Crosby,Tx. This truck has 350 hp Chevy LS1 Motor and weighs 2500. The truck was built to drive on the street, go to the Car Shows, and just have fun.
1934 Ford Truck built ground up by Ed Riley of Crosby,Tx. This truck has 350 hp LS1 Chevy Motor and weighs 2500. There is a Custom Built Pro-Street Frame with a 9" Ford Rearend and a Kuggel Front end. The truck was built to drive on the street, go to the Car Shows, and just have fun.
1934 Ford Truck built ground up by Ed Riley of Crosby,Tx. This truck has 350 hp LS1 Chevy Motor and weighs 2500. There is a Custom Built Pro-Street Frame with a 9" Ford Rearend and a Kuggel Front end. The truck was built to drive on the street, go to the Car Shows, and just have fun.
In 1967 the Ministry of Transport commissioned a fleet of seven custom-built Bedford vehicles to go around the country promoting British production techniques. Only one bus survives and it took the current owner Ollie Halls five years to retore the mobile cinema to it's pristine condition. The Vintage Mobile Cinema seats 22 in comfort and has a state-of-the-art HD digital projection unit. Above the cab there is ( for the 1960's ) a futuristic-looking clear Perspex dome.
More images from the visit can be seen on my website www.fozimage.com/fozlogs-20110219.htm
The Aristocrat Custom Built horns were engraved with a more elaborate pattern than on the base line Aristocrat model trumpets. They are all engraved in an Art-Deco inspired pattern; a style Buescher started using in the early '30s.
Note the opaque quality of the lacquer remnants on the bell; a characteristic of Buescher's "gold" lacquer of the 1930s.
The Model 235's bell-tail taper is long and gradual; the taper on the Aristocrat horns was similar but perhaps a little tighter. The flare out to the bell's rim, here and on the Aristocrat, starts out pretty close to the bell's mouth. Both models seem to have been designed to deliver a compact, focused tone.
Note the opaque quality of the lacquer remnants on the bell; a characteristic of Buescher's "gold" lacquer of the 1930s.
1934 Ford Truck built ground up by Ed Riley of Crosby,Tx. This truck has 350 hp Chevy LS1 Motor and weighs 2500. The truck was built to drive on the street, go to the Car Shows, and just have fun.
1934 Ford Truck built ground up by Ed Riley of Crosby,Tx. This truck has 350 hp Chevy LS1 Motor and weighs 2500. The truck was built to drive on the street, go to the Car Shows, and just have fun.
1934 Ford Truck built ground up by Ed Riley of Crosby,Tx. This truck has 350 hp Chevy LS1 Motor and weighs 2500. The truck was built to drive on the street, go to the Car Shows, and just have fun.
1934 Ford Truck built ground up by Ed Riley of Crosby,Tx. This truck has 350 hp Chevy LS1 Motor and weighs 2500. The truck was built to drive on the street, go to the Car Shows, and just have fun.