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Nearby is Sir Isaac Newton's memorial built into the choir screen. It's flashy. Everyone wants to snap it with their latest gadget, their stupid pose, a supercilious grin and get it on-line. I am more patient. I want you to admire this stone, absorb it and understand what comes after.
I am humbled, emotionally engaged, adoring. I am here to honour, inter alia, the man; his legacy. He is at the fore, without peer; maybe.
Here lies what was mortal of Isaac Newton
With British manufacturers struggling to meet demand for motor lorries
for war service, in 1914 the British Government contracted with export
agents Gaston, Williams & Wigmore to supply American chassis to
be fitted with bodies in England. Prominent among these makes was
Peerless of Cleveland, Ohio, a firm that had started life in Victorian
times making mangles before turning to cycle manufacture and then, in
1900, entering the car market with de Dion-engined voiturettes. Within
a few years, Peerless had become one of America’s most prestigious
manufacturers, ranking alongside Packard and Pierce-Arrow. Trucks
of 3-ton, 4-ton and 5-ton capacity were added to the product line in
1911 and found favour with the US Army.
Between 1915-18 the British Government bought a total of 12,000
Peerless truck chassis, which were imported via Liverpool, then
inspected and made “ready for service” at a Gaston, Williams &
Wigmore repair facility at Islington, North London.
After the war ended, the American made arrangements for the
60,000 or so trucks that they had in Europe to be sold. Many
were sent to the Government repair depot at Slough. In 1920 the
Government Surplus Disposal Board sold the Slough site and all the
vehicles – including those still in France, Egypt, Turkey, India and
Mesopotamia – for over £7 million to a group of investors headed by
Sir Percival Perry and Noel Mobbs, who continuing rebuilding and
selling reconditioned lorries before converting the site into the Slough
Trading Estate.
FWD and Peerless established independent companies on the
estate, and after war service this 4-ton truck, which was built in
Cleveland in 1915 and shipped to Europe in 1916, was extensively
rebuilt in 1921 by the Peerless Trading Company at Slough. It has
a 6.76-litre bi-block T-head engine driving the massive cast iron
rear wheels through a four speed and reverse gearbox and side
chains. From Slough, the Peerless was acquired by C & G Yeoman
of Canterbury, Kent, who were nationalised in 1948, becoming
part of the East Kent Group of the South Eastern Division of British
Road Services.
The old Peerless remained in BRS service until 1956, when it was
auctioned off. Ten years later, Michael Banfield acquired the Peerless
as a chassis for £30 from J.T. Evans’ scrapyard at Wiggington, near
Tring, and subjected it to a typically painstaking restoration, its body
being built and painted “in-house” at Nunhead Lane as a replica of
a Peerless operated in the 1920s by W. G. Mersh of Albion Street,
Rotherhithe. Typical of the standard of restoration, the impeccably
lined-out apple green paintwork represents some 30 coats of paint
and varnish, and the lettering is in real gold leaf. Running well, the
Peerless has been officially dated as 1915 by the Veteran Car Club.
£20,000 - 25,000
€25,000 - 31,000
Over the past Labor Day Weekend here in the US. I headed out early to capture the sunrise over Wichita, Kansas. This image is a panorama made with my DJI Mavic Platinum Pro.
Visit to the June 13, 2015 Cleveland All-Stars car show at Ursuline College in Pepper Pike, Ohio (a suburb of Cleveland). This show featured cars built in northeast Ohio, and a nice variety of examples was on display.
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Peerlessness gave me inspiration .......
As if it said..........
Make everyday start by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful..........
watch closely..... its speaks............:)
Everything about this scene has totally changed. The buildings are gone and replaced by upscale condos and the last train was on these tracks in 2009 when Chicago Terminal stuffed some gondolas on the former Peerless spur.
In this view from the past CP is switching out Peerless Confectionery, the last customer north of Clybourn on the former Milwaukee Road Chicago & Evanston (C&E) line. In January of 2007 shortline Chicago Terminal would take over operation of the C&E from CP. In May of 2007 Peerless went out of business, and in 2019, Iowa Pacific, the parent of Chicago Terminal, went out of business.
Below is a view of a rare passenger train on the C&E shortly after Peerless was demolished at the same location.
With a light grey building, a light grey sky, and grey pavement there was not much contrast possible in these shots.
Rare plumage for CP with this former North Louisiana & Gulf MP15. It was the only time I caught this engine working the former Milwaukee Road Chicago & Evanston (C&E) Line. It's on its way to pick up an empty tank car from Peerless Confectionery using street trackage.
Peerless went out of business in May of 2007 which ended revenue freight service on the C&E Line north of Clybourn by which time Chicago Terminal (CTM) had taken over operations of the C&E and Goose Island trackage from CP. In 2015 Big Bay Lumber on Goose Island closed which was the last CTM customer. CTM later conveyed rights to its ROW to the City of Chicago and abandoned what was left of its Chicago property in 2018.
The "Makalös" ("Peerless") Palace, built in 1635-1643 for the noble family De la Gardie, in Kungsträdgården (King's Garden) park in central Stockholm. The palace was in the 18th century used as arsenal, and from the 1790s as location for the Royal Dramatic Theatre. It was destroyed by a fire in 1825, during a theatre performance.
Chalcography by Georg Christoph Kilian, probably from the first half of the 18th century.
Paltset "Makalös", byggt 1635-1643 för adelsfamiljen De la Gardie, i Kungsträdgården i Stockholm. Palatset användes under 1700-talet som arsenal och från 1790-talet som lokal för Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern. Det förstördes i en brand 1825, under en teaterföreställning.
Kopparstick av Georg Christoph Kilian, troligen från 1700-talets första hälft.
Collection: The Collection of drawings, watercolours and prints, Archives of the Swedish National Heritage Board
Parish (socken): Stockholm
Province (landskap): Uppland
Municipality (kommun): Stockholm
County (län): Stockholm
Photograph by: Lars Kennerstedt
Date: 2017
Persistent URL: kmb.raa.se/cocoon/bild/show-image.html?id=16001000544422
Some five years after these photos were taken Peerless Confectionery would close and its buildings torn down to make room for more condos. It was the last rail industry on the former Milwaukee Road C&E Line north of Clybourn after 1984.
Note the derrick like structure over the hopper. It was added in later years over the spur. I am not sure what its function was.
On February 1, 2007-just one month after Chicago Terminal took over operations from CP on the former Milwaukee Road Chicago & Evanston (C&E) Line- it made its last documented run to the candy company to retrieve an empty tank car. By May of 2007 Peerless was out of business and a short time later its buildings were torn down to make room for more condos.
I was fortunate enough to join the crew with this vantage point from inside the Chicago Terminal SW-800. Now both Chicago Terminal and its parent company Iowa Pacific are no more.
Another of my shots from my trip to the Isle of Lunga from Mull last summer.
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The July 28, 2013 Concours d'Elegance of America at St. John's in Plymouth, Michigan. It was a great show today and thankfully, forecasted rainy weather really didn't materialize.
Winner of the 'Spirit of the Automobilist' award
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In 1919 the British Army found itself with an acute shortage of armoured cars as many wartime vehicles were worn out. The Austin Motor Company of Birmingham agreed to manufacture armoured bodies based on the wartime armoured cars that they had built for the Imperial Russian Government, provided that the War Office could provide suitable chassis.
These ‘Russian’ cars had twin side by side turrets. Some had served with the British Army’s Tank Corps. The War Office had a large number of American-made Peerless 2½-ton trucks in store and agreed to supply 100 chassis to Austin.
The Peerless was a robust vehicle with a chain-driven rear axle and the British used large numbers in World War I. It was too long for the Austin bodies so that rather a lot of the chassis poked out at the back. It was the first armoured car to have the driving controls duplicated in the rear of the vehicle so that it could be driven in reverse to get out of ‘tight corners’. The resulting hybrid wasn’t a very good armoured car. It was too big, unwieldy and slow (six tonnes, 48-hp engine, 18 mph top speed, two .303-inch machine-guns) and the crew of four got a rough ride on solid tyres.
Some of the Peerless cars were sent to Ireland in 1920 although the superior Rolls Royce armoured car quickly replaced them by the end of 1921. Some were passed on to the National Army of the Irish Free State and remained in service until 1934 by which time the chassis were worn out. The bodies and guns were reused on locally-manufactured vehicles. Peerless armoured cars were also used in Britain to escort food convoys during the General Strike of 1926. When they were withdrawn from front-line service they were issued to the Royal Tank Corps' Territorial Armoured Car Companies; one lasted with the Derbyshire Yeomanry until May 1940 when it was relegated to airfield defence.
Seen at The Tank Museum in Bovington, Dorset, the exhibit is painted in the markings of the 23rd London Armoured Car Company, a TA unit.
An MP15 in unusual colors is used by the CP crew to retrieve an empty tank car from Peerless Confectionery in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood. This operation was a fan favorite with its street running on Lakewood Avenue on what was left of the former Milwaukee Road Chicago & Evanston Line which at one time went past Wrigley Field and interchanged freight with the CTA.
In less than five years Iowa Pacific shortline Chicago Terminal would take over operation of the former Milwaukee Road lines on Chicago's North Side.
Peerless went out of business in May of 2007 and the last documented revenue run by Chicago Terminal to Peerless was in February of 2007. Now Chicago Terminal is no more and all of these tracks are abandoned and slowly being swallowed up by new development and rebuilt streets.
At this time Peerless, Packard and Pierce-Arrow were said to be the Three P’s of American luxury automobiles. This photo shows the rumble seat which allowed open air seating to those who had that craving. As a child I recall our neighbor’s car that had such a seat and it was popular with the younger set. Taken at The Owls Head Transportation Museum owlshead.org
Peerless GT 1961. In 1956 hotelier James Byrnes who was a racing fan approached race car builder Bernie Rodger about building a 2-litre GT car. This was designed around a steel chassis which could accept Triumph TR3 components, because Standard Triumph people were frequent visitors to the hotel. John Gordon (later to be part of the Gordon Keeble GK1) liked the car but said it needed to be a larger 4-seater GT. The final design went to the 1957 Paris Salon, and got approval from members of the Standard-Triumph hierarchy. When Peerless Motors of Slough went into receivership, the GT car had both a production facility and a name; the Peerless GT was born with Triumph TR3 1,991cc 4-cylinder engine and an aluminium body. The Phase II Peerless went into production in 1959 with a new body supplier (Wincanton) who was making the body as a single piece rather than 57 pieces that the previous supplier used. Unfortunately board room disputes killed the Peerless, and a Phase III version was produced by a new enterprise and called the 'Warwick GT'. Meanwhile John Gordon got two Peerless GT chassis which he modified to accept a Chevrolet Corvette V8, and when he went into partnership with Jim Keeble the story of the Gordon Keeble GK1 began.
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Every Drop Honestly Crafted.
Non-Chill Filtered
Strictly Sweet Mash
Barrel Proof
No Water Added
Delivering a buttery mouth full with toasted rye and baking spice notes, It’s hard to pinpoint why this young rye succeeds where others fail, but one point of difference is the use of sweet mash fermentation, rather than the much more common sour mash technique, where spent mash is added to the new fermentation. Furthermore, the Peerless warehouse achieves temperatures upward of 110 degrees. Whatever the technical reasons, Peerless is paving the way and we expect more craft distillers to join them.
Lighting, one 1000w tungsten hot light above with a 200w can light set off to the far left.
In October, 2016, I decided to almost the entire length of what remains of industrial railroading on Chicago's North Side. My walk, inspired by this website www.chicagoswitching.com/ , included most of the former Milwaukee Road's Kingsbury, Goose Island, and Lakewood (C&E) Lines. I also included what's left of UP (ex CNW) industrial trackage too.
Until 2007, this was the site of the Peerless Confectionery. Peerless was the last freight customer left on the Milwaukee Road's Lakewood Branch. The spurs to the candy company are quite evident here. At the time of shut-down, the line terminated at Diversey Avenue, which is about 1 block in the distance.
The trackage was later operated by Milwaukee Road's successors Soo, and CP. In its final years, the line was operated by Chicago Terminal Railroad. Per www.chicago-l.org/operations/freight/ . " In 2009, the City of Chicago filed an adverse abandonment petition against the Chicago Terminal, the short line railroad that succeeded the Canadian Pacific as the owner and operator of what remained of the Chicago & Evanston. A settlement was reached in which the Chicago Terminal received compensation for vacating the right-of-way in Lakewood and Kingsbury where the City desired to rebuild the streets."
Peerless Confectionery was quickly demolished and nothing remains of it, other than this patch of street trackage.
Some good resources on this amazing ibt of Chicago railroad history can be found here www.chicago-l.org/operations/freight/ and here chicagoswitching.com/chicago/former-milwaukee-road-cp-rai...
Chassis n° GT2-00198
Bonhams : The Autumn Sale 2020
Estimated : € 40.000 - 60.000
Sold for € 46.000
Autoworld
Brussels - Belgium
September 2020
A racing mechanic with considerable experience of spaceframe construction, Bernie Rodger was approached by John Gordon (later of Gordon-Keeble fame) and James Byrnes to built the prototype of a new 2+2 sports saloon: the Warwick. Noteworthy features of this very pretty Italianate GT included leaf-sprung De Dion rear suspension and the Triumph TR3 2.0-litre engine, overdrive gearbox, and front suspension, including its disc brakes. By the time production began in 1958 the car had been renamed 'Peerless', while bodies were now of glassfibre construction instead of the prototype's aluminium panelling. A very capable car, the Peerless had room for a family and its luggage, was good for a top speed of more than 110mph (177km/h) and cost a relatively affordable £1,500. Unfortunately for Peerless, this was approximately the price of a Jaguar 2.4-litre saloon...
In 1958 a solitary Peerless started the Le Mans 24 Hour Race; the only four-seater in the field, it finished in a highly creditable 16th place overall. Despite a favourable reception and the valuable publicity gained from its Le Mans exploits, Peerless was soon in financial difficulty and production ceased in 1960 after an estimated 325 cars had been made. Bernie Rodger then revived the design in improved form as the Warwick, but by the end of 1961 this too had gone. However, that was not quite the end of the Peerless saga; John Gordon and Jim Keeble then took the concept a stage further, fitting a Chevrolet V8 engine into a Peerless-type chassis to create the Bertone-styled Gordon-Keeble of 1964.
One of only 70 made in left-hand drive configuration, this ultra-rare Peerless GT has a race-prepared Triumph TR3 engine producing 100bhp and is eligible for the Le Mans Classic and Goodwood Revival events among others. Described by the vendor, a Belgian private collector, as in generally good condition with original interior, this restored car is offered with Belgian Carte Grise (Oldtimer) and Contrôle Technique.
This greyhound is Peerless de Wet, winner of the 1905 inaugural Irish Cup that is pictured here in pride of place (for Coursing, run at Limerick). The dog was born in 1902. He was owned by R.F. Phelan, who named his champion after General Christiaan Rudolf de Wet, a Boer General. One of these gentlemen is owner R.F. Phelan, and the other is trainer P. O'Toole.
Date: Monday, 15 January 1906
NLI Ref.: P_WP_1524
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Persistent URL: www.floridamemory.com/items/show/33783
Local call number: RC11241
Title: Peerless Motor Cars store at night time - Florida
Date: ca. 1926
Physical descrip: 1 photoprint - b&w - 8 x 10 in.
Series Title: Reference Collection
Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida, 500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250 USA. Contact: 850.245.6700. Archives@dos.myflorida.com
I was lucky to catch this CP job taking a load of sugar up to Peerless Confectionery on a grey day in March of 2006. Within nine months shortline Chicago Terminal would take over operations on the former Milwaukee Road North Side lines then in a little over a year Peerless would be out of business.
The CP crew is swapping out an empty covered hopper for a new load of sugar in another hopper. Peerless was the last customer on the Chicago & Evanston (C&E) Line north of Clybourn by 1984.
First in the lineup is Lloyd's "Peerless Mech." Not a bad construction if I'm being honest. The cockpit itself is rather flimsy (the entire front panel is connected by only two studs on a SNOT brick, and the friction isn't great...) and boxy, but I don't mind much. The shoulder pads are also... strangely constructed, but I guess it works. The spear is pretty cool. It is, however, the only model that lacks a battle mode.