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What was there? #528 - John Cobb Railton special at the 1951 Festival of Britain
« on: May 16, 2011, 10:50:11 AM »
What was there, behind this white cloud in the lower right corner before I erased it?

Inspired by Wendax great idea in his Invisible puzzle (and having duly asked him if he would agree) I try my hand at an "invisible" of my own.
Find who are these ladies and  you'll have a chance to identify this mystery car.

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Re: What was there? #528
« Reply #1 on: May 21, 2011, 12:05:07 PM »
Experts, it's coming up your way!
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Re: What was there? #528
« Reply #2 on: May 21, 2011, 12:51:06 PM »
Citroen DS at the expo 58 in Bruxelles?
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Re: What was there? #528
« Reply #3 on: May 21, 2011, 01:02:12 PM »
Never mind what was there: I was there! ;D
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Re: What was there? #528
« Reply #4 on: May 22, 2011, 04:13:30 AM »
Very well tried, Limo, and intelligent guess. Allan may well have been there, but it's not the DS at Expo 58, which was presented like seen below.
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Re: What was there? #528
« Reply #5 on: May 28, 2011, 09:48:48 AM »
I think that this one deserves the pros...
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Re: What was there? #528
« Reply #6 on: May 28, 2011, 09:56:52 AM »
Post-WWII European exhibition?
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Re: What was there? #528
« Reply #7 on: May 28, 2011, 10:28:14 AM »
Quote from: Wendax on May 28, 2011, 09:56:52 AM
Post-WWII European exhibition?
Yes, that was part of the 1951 Festival of Britain's South Bank site in London. We are looking out of the Dome of Discovery ("Dome of Doom" to us schoolboys!) with Hungerford railway bridge in the middle distance and if we hadn't blinked we would have seen John Cobb's Railton Mobil Special LSR holding car.
Looking into the Dome it looked like this (without the inset Dunlop wheel):
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Re: What was there? #528
« Reply #8 on: May 28, 2011, 04:04:10 PM »
I wasn't sure that that you had effectively been there, Allan, but I knew you had a good chance to solve this one. My picture comes from a book, but I intended to confirm your answer with the one you posted. Well done.
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Re: What was there? #528 - John Cobb Railton special at the 1951 Festival of Britain
« Reply #9 on: October 28, 2011, 05:00:10 AM »
More pics of this car, as it appeared at Bonneville in 1947
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Re: What was there? #528 - John Cobb Railton special at the 1951 Festival of Britain
« Reply #10 on: October 28, 2011, 05:05:03 AM »
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Re: What was there? #528 - John Cobb Railton special at the 1951 Festival of Britain
« Reply #11 on: October 28, 2011, 09:32:18 AM »
Is one of those blokes in the middle photo just above Conrad Hilton, renowned for ensuring that his hotels, however deficient in all the normal hotel-type things, always had a copious supply of Icéd Water in the bedrooms? One of them ought to be. ;D
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