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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
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.
The Model 235's Main Slide and Third Valve Slide.
Note that nickel-silver is used in all the slide assemblies' tubing.
Note also he locking ring on the main slide's lower stretch of tubing.
Finally, note the gold lacquer's opaque quality, quite apparent when contrasted against nickel silver .
The unit gets a new bell, horn and antennae. The shop decides to relocate the bell further down the long hood in the middle of the CN noodle as it will interfere with the door operation and be too noisy for the crew.
Photo- Jeff Semper
Note the simple vertical brace in the main slide's crook. The features and details of the post-war models are leaner and simpler than on the pre-war horn designs.
Note that the taper in the bell-tail appears to be more pronounced than on pre-war models.
This is an interesting ad for the Model 235 evidently placed in England. Though it refers to the Model 235 as "new", the ad must be from the late 1930s. How do I know that? Details:
First, the ad copy states that it comes with a stock Duo-Cup mouthpiece; the trumpet image features one inserted into the receiver. Buescher did not introduce the Duo-Cup mouthpiece until the late '30s. Prior to that a Buescher "Aristocrat" mouthpiece was shipped stock.
Second, the ad refers to a "new style silk plush lined case" - that's the lingo Buescher used for its "Gladstone" style cases of the late 1930s.
Third, the ad names the horn the "Custom Built" model, not the "Aristocrat Custom Built" as did Buescher when it first introduced the Model 235.
So this ad is from the later 1930s before the Model 240 Custom Built trumpet replaced the Model 235 but, possibly, not before the 400 model trumpet was first introduced to the public.
Note that Buescher also touts its "Acousta-Bell" and pin valves in the ad.
An ad in Britain? I don't know if Buescher had established a retail representative there or if you were expected to place an order to the Buescher factory and it would be shipped to you. However a large proportion of Buescher's business was driven by customer orders made direct to the factory. Buescher was very friendly to such orders, and its attitude towards requests for special features and options may be a source of the "Custom Built" model name - Buescher may have had a popular reputation for making horns to its customer's specifications.
The "Acousta-Bell".
Note the construction of the bell's rim. The Custom Built horn rims were a little different from the Aristocrat; the Aristocrat had a thicker rolled rim. It lacked the narrow, flat ribbon of reinforcing metal seen here just behind the rim.
The Buescher saxophones of the 1930s used a similar construction method, though they didn't tout the saxes as using the "Acousta-Bell" process. However, they did brag about a special annealing process used for the brass.
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.
Built from reclaimed marble, recovered by reuse action (reuseaction.com) from a lavatory renovation in one of the Buffalo Public Schools. It was a stall partition, so a close inspection shows who loved who, and all sorts of school age nonsense scratched into the marble. We cut it down to size for the customer and left the markings in the marble as part of its charm. The legs, undercarriage and mounting brackets are all made of reclaimed house trim. The marble installed originally in the 1920s, most likely by Italian immigrant craftsmen. In this city the old wood work was done by Poles and Germans, while the stone work was done by the Italians. crafts they brought from their home countries. Without rescuing this material it (and its heritage) would be in the landfill.
Each piece we build is unique and imbued with history...and keeping materials out of landfills.
Lamp built in semitransparent material with steel brushed base featuring a small planet picture of night scene from Empire State Building. Energy saving 15 W incandescent bulb for a romantic mood. Silver transparent electric chord with elegant black foot/hand switch. 5 1/2'' x 5 1/2'' x 5 1/2''. Diameter of translucent piture ca. 4''. Uses this image. See all other pictures possible in this model.
This horn is a multi-pitch instrument configured to play in the key of Bb and A.
The main tuning slide has two components. The part of the slide with two straight braces is a separate component from the crook in the slide. The crook will extend away from the section with the two braces.
To tune the horn to A you extended the entire slide assembly, and then extended the crook even farther out.
There is a locking ring on the other side of the horn, where the main slide tubing enters the the tubing sleeve that extends from the bottom of the third valve case.
Once you had adjusted the entire slide to the proper position, you could lock the section with the two braces into place but still adjust the crook's position for fine-tuning.
You also had to adjust the valve slides; they have a mark on the tubing showing about where you needed to extend them.
Note that Buescher applied lacquer over the whole horn, including the nickel-silver portions of the slides.