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Offline Paul Jaray

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PJ - 575
« on: November 25, 2013, 12:30:08 PM »
Who did this conversion?
1 point if you know. (I don't!)
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Re: PJ - 575
« Reply #1 on: November 25, 2013, 12:56:07 PM »
This must fall to one side in the first curve... :o

Well, it obviously features a Austin Seven grille.

But I doubt it was a serious project of a bigger company, was it?

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Re: PJ - 575
« Reply #2 on: November 26, 2013, 07:06:03 AM »
All I know is that it's a conversion of an Austin Seven in something quite strange...
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Re: PJ - 575
« Reply #3 on: November 28, 2013, 12:06:26 PM »
So it has been converted to be able to squeeze through very narrow passages?

Or did it serve a special purpose?
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Re: PJ - 575
« Reply #4 on: November 28, 2013, 12:28:31 PM »
I have no idea.
I can't imagine a decent use for such a conversion.
Those wheels for example...it reminds me a vehicle for tunnels or similar, but I have not the answer. :huh:
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Re: PJ - 575
« Reply #5 on: July 31, 2014, 05:11:19 PM »
This car is pure nonsense: the headlight suggests a possible use in the dark (or dark areas), the narrow set of wheels are useless on a road and that bar seems to be a bumper for a kid car. Why a single rear wheel and the tandem seat arrangement??
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Re: PJ - 575
« Reply #6 on: August 01, 2014, 05:28:07 AM »
Perhaps it's a pull-along children's waggon made by an Austin 7 nut!
I'll ask an Austin 7 nut I know who just might know (or even have made it!).
Do we know its country of origin - and if so is it UK?
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Re: PJ - 575
« Reply #7 on: August 01, 2014, 11:15:23 AM »
I took this pic from a pubblic photo gallery, quite known. There were no details about and it was labeled something like 'Austin Seven modified'. I can't remember the other pics in that set if they were from the UK...I would bet they were but can't be 100% sure. I'll try to find it back.
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Re: PJ - 575
« Reply #8 on: August 03, 2014, 07:18:19 AM »
There are no flanges on those wheels, so it can't have run on traditional rails, but I can't help thinking that the narrow track would have made it so unstable that it couldn't move without being kept upright in some manner.If that is indeed a single wheel at the back, maybe it ran in 3 "troughs" as we would call them in the UK - channels of steel three abreast.

With that headlight at the front, I've been considering for some time whether it was used underground in a mine of some sort. Having said that, the exhaust fumes would have been a problem. Maybe a fairground ride?
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Re: PJ - 575
« Reply #9 on: November 23, 2014, 04:31:27 AM »
Black Hole soon...
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Re: PJ - 575
« Reply #10 on: November 24, 2014, 08:23:31 AM »
BH!
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Re: PJ - 575
« Reply #11 on: December 11, 2014, 09:37:09 AM »
Any gyroscope or flywheel involved?
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Re: PJ - 575
« Reply #12 on: August 24, 2023, 12:18:25 AM »
Quote from: Paul Jaray on November 28, 2013, 12:28:31 PM
Those wheels for example...it reminds me a vehicle for tunnels or similar
Stumbled across these images today and was reminded of this thread:
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Re: PJ - 575
« Reply #13 on: September 17, 2023, 09:20:55 AM »
Nice pictures! Who knows if we'll ever find the solution to this.
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