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What would be a good headline for this picture?
Today's mystery vehicle is a chain-driven bus. The picture was sent in by Graham Rankin who told us it came from an old album which is in his Australian friend's possession. Other than that, we can only rely on what we see as there is no additional information.
The picture itself raises quite a few questions. First of all, the relation between the 21-strong group of men posing in the bus. Secondly, the bus itself. There are some features which could tell us more about today's mystery vehicle. The emblem on the radiator is feasible but hard to read. Does anyone recognise the shape(s) and can tell us more about the make? And what can the initials on each door tell us? Something else which is quite noticeable is the fact that it is chain driven and the wheels.
Tell us everything you know about today's mystery vehicle! Using that information - what would be a good headline for this picture?
Published:
Monday April 6th, 2020
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Grimmo
09 April 2020, 01:26
Grimmo
06 April 2020, 16:04
Must be much later... the chap back at the third door has his mobile phone discreetly to his ear: “Jusht shpeeding home on the work’sh bush, dearesht.”
Definitely the Lacre Motor Car Company Ltd as it has their highly arched radiator with logos top and centre and their bullet-shaped wheel bearing caps too. At Letchworth, Hertfordshire, Lacre claimed to make every part of their 1 to 5 ton chassis and in 1916 they advertised that cast steel wheels were fitted onto both the front and rear (twin-wheel) axles of two-tonners and heavier, so the cast solid/spoked pneumatic combination here perhaps a local fitting. A three speed box and a solid bar back axle were fitted up to 3 tons; about a ton and a half aboard here.
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Definitely the Lacre Motor Car Company Ltd as it has their highly arched radiator with logos top and centre and their bullet-shaped wheel bearing caps too. At Letchworth, Hertfordshire, Lacre claimed to make every part of their 1 to 5 ton chassis and in 1916 they advertised that cast steel wheels were fitted onto both the front and rear (twin-wheel) axles of two-tonners and heavier, so the cast solid/spoked pneumatic combination here perhaps a local fitting. A three speed box and a solid bar back axle were fitted up to 3 tons; about a ton and a half aboard here.
Joop Terpstra
06 April 2020, 14:20
Headline:
Where did that other bus went with all the girls aboard?
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Where did that other bus went with all the girls aboard?
Arnoud van derSman
06 April 2020, 12:42
What about:
gentleman keep your social distance please the Spanish flue is about to arrive….
or maybe Spanish flue: No need to keep your social distance gentleman in Australia
apparently the Spanish flue wasn’t a pandemic in Australia in 1918..
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gentleman keep your social distance please the Spanish flue is about to arrive….
or maybe Spanish flue: No need to keep your social distance gentleman in Australia
apparently the Spanish flue wasn’t a pandemic in Australia in 1918..
Nick
06 April 2020, 12:18
Perhaps their first day out after a great epidemic - off for a 'smoker'?
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John Bates
06 April 2020, 11:43
In England, too, this type of vehicle was called a 'charabanc' (or in running speech, 'sharrabang'). The essential element was a door (or just access) each side. for each row of seats. A hood was common but I have never seen any windows or side screens.
A heading? 'No Social Distancing!'
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A heading? 'No Social Distancing!'
joris bergsma
06 April 2020, 11:27
We got a 21 x 400 Euro fine from the police for not keeping enough social distance. Which is not fair as we are all at least 1.5 metre away from the general public.
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Neil Beadle
06 April 2020, 07:26
Standing room only.
A Lacre charabanc from about 1910
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A Lacre charabanc from about 1910
Dale Conlon
06 April 2020, 06:13
It looks like a Lacre to me. Like the restored one here in New Zealand
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Craig Gillingham
06 April 2020, 00:46
This vehicle (charabanc) is a Lacre; there were a few of these in Australia. I can't see a rego. plate to see which Australian state it was from.
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This one’s owner, Fred H. Beaumont, was running excursions with “new silent motor char-a-bancs” from The Square, Huddersfield, Yorkshire from at least April 1914 and he continued with charabanc tours through WWI until these were banned in 1916. He restarted in 1918/19 and ran to at least the mid-1920s. A five day tour of the Lake District was 10 guineas in September 1919.
In 1917 he’d advertised as Yorkshire agent for Palladium 4-ton Lorries fitted with a “40-HP British Subsidy Type Engine” for immediate delivery from his Scotgate Garage, Honley, Huddersfield premises.
If the ladies here were meeting the Antipodean Lacre men at a party somewhere near the Equator, at least four or five blokes were going to be disappointed.