Cars and bikes I’ve come across in my travels

chrisk said:
Borgward? Sounds like something from a Harry Potter movie
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Competitor to Mercedes Benz, BMW, etc. The Isabella Coupe is today a highly sought-after model, on par with anything others could offer.

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Borgward Isabella

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Rumour has it the company was driven to bankruptcy politically killed off by M-B and BMW to widen their market share.

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dont forget Andy Wag had (or still has) an ex German fire truck, and Ebay UK also bought one and converted it to a coporate show off thing, they came unstuck a bit because the engine from German Transits is not the same as UK Transits, even though they are both V4's and look alike.
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CLEMTOG said:
dont forget Andy Wag had (or still has) an ex German fire truck, and Ebay UK also bought one and converted it to a coporate show off thing, they came unstuck a bit because the engine from German Transits is not the same as UK Transits, even though they are both V4's and look alike.
CLEM
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I recall a car getting around my home town, a 2 door Morris Minor with a V4 transit motor in it. It had wide wheels and had two exhaust pipes out back and it looked and sounded good ............. that's all the good I can say about it.
 
Charley said:
Spotted this converted fire truck in Bremerhaven a few years ago.
I must admit I fell in love with it the moment I saw it.
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That's interesting -a former Dutch firetruck (typical hand grips in all doors & "brandweer"sign) with a German plate -usally there reverse happens :)
Charley said:
Borgward trucks. This one has been all over the place. Home made live aboard. Lovely.
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Gerald said:
Manufactured in Bremen, Germany. RH drive version is rarer than hens teeth.....
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Nice! both the truck & P100. :) I used to have a Hanomag F45, although I believe (from memory) those were made in the former Tempo factory in Harburg.
They were rare-ish back then, but nowadays sometimes seen a truck shows. I sold number 2 because of an over-sensitive child (sounds, put roof lead under the engine cover, new rubbers everywhere, but still) & there was no safe way of putting a rear seat with seatbelts in it. Hence the orange LT46 sometimes seen in photo's of my Laverda. :)
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my (extremely rare, short-wheel base 1968 van, near Verdun, 2003
This style of body was only for 1967/68 and a few used up stocks for 1969.

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Fixing things up on number 2, somewhere 2003-2004. This was a 1971 4800kg version F45V (verstärkt) 3900mm wheelbase version. Same 65HP 2,8 liter diesel as the little green van :) Ran great, right up to the injector pump sprocket having worked itself loose.... replaced it with a decent 3,1l 80hp, didn't really help as much as hoped. Previous owner used incompatible paints, hence the strange yellow-brown discolorizations.

Noisy, slow and lots of other things (no power assisted steering, nor vacuum servo's for those big drum brakes) , but really had some great travels with them. :) Also they were clearly designed by people who had maintenance experience -contrary to the Mercedes vans of the same size which had some really stupid constructions, these were really easy to maintain, you could see and feel someone had thought about how to replace or repair things.

edit: looking at the Dutch online registration both, on paper at least,still exist.
 
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Now we're really drifting away from bikes :LOL: Waiting for Hanomag AL 28, Mercedes OM/LP 319 (408) or Renault Estafette to show up here.....
 
well the title does state Cars and Bikes -and camper vans are classified as M1 (car) so technically.... ;) But yes, we are moving away a bit. :)
I should have some great shots of an Malaysian ("bas sekolah" IIRC) school bus O319 (the passenger version of the 319) but I wasn't travelling on my bike but there for work. Lots of bikes in Malaysia though! :D

[edit] Could not resist having a look, if in appropriate i'll remove them. Won't bore you all with all the other crap I spotted (old WWII trucks, scrapyards, smoky old Hino's and Mitsubishi's, Honda bikes and whatnot ;)
Was around 2005, a very proud (elderly) owner (he later removed the cardboard to protect the tires for me to take a photo) who spoke a few words English. (not for sale!) Judging by the seat covers he probably slapped any kid messing up the interiour with ruler on the fingers...
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jko_78 said:
well the title does state Cars and Bikes -and camper vans are classified as M1 (car) so technically.... ;) But yes, we are moving away a bit. :)
I should have some great shots of an Malaysian ("bas sekolah" IIRC) school bus O319 (the passenger version of the 319) but I wasn't travelling on my bike but there for work. Lots of bikes in Malaysia though! :D

[edit] Could not resist having a look, if in appropriate i'll remove them. Won't bore you all with all the other crap I spotted (old WWII trucks, scrapyards, smoky old Hino's and Mitsubishi's, Honda bikes and whatnot ;)
Was around 2005, a very proud (elderly) owner (he later removed the cardboard to protect the tires for me to take a photo) who spoke a few words English. (not for sale!) Judging by the seat covers he probably slapped any kid messing up the interiour with ruler on the fingers...
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Custom wheel covers remind me of house front door covers in snow villages of Spain, Anso etc.
 
chrisk said:
We have 000, how fucken stupid is that?

It takes the fire department, ambulance or police less time to get to my house, than it does for my phones dial to return to its home position three times. FFS.

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I cannot believe it myself, still, I guess it is from another century, like me, but I, as an apprentice, installed these phones and switchboards, time moves on and waits for none of us. The only benefit to a Telecom apprentice installing these archaic pieces of telecommunications history was that you would spend hours (on Government time) teaching sweet young operators how to use this new-fangled equipment after hours.1747349051628.png
 
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I cannot believe it myself, still, I guess it is from another century, like me, but I, as an apprentice, installed these phones and switchboards, time moves on and waits for none of us. The only benefit to a Telecom apprentice installing these archaic pieces of telecommunications history was that you would spend hours (on Government time) teaching sweet young operators how to use this new-fangled equipment after hours.View attachment 96545
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Wow, you must be my senior by several years! When I started in Telecommunications, large telephone switches and key systems were state of the art. Looking at the top bantam patch cords ( or are they 310?) I'd say they have a lot of strain :eek:

Gerald
 
My late father used to work for the Hydro Electric Commission of Tasmania. The office building he worked in had a switchboard like that on the ground floor. It was operated by a blind guy called Mr Grainger who had a guide dog called Rufus. He was an old mate of my dad's from when they were in the Signals Corps together in New Guinea during WW2 (he lost his sight during the war).

As a kid I'd sometimes visit with Mr Grainger and Rufus in the switchboard room while I was waiting for my dad to finish work. He was as quick as a flash plugging the various leads into the correct holes and he never made a mistake. He'd pick up the plug, his hand would move up and across the board to exactly the right spot and it would go straight in the hole. I could never figure out how he did it without being able to see. Obviously he couldn't read the hole numbers and he didn't feel his way around the board with his fingers. He just knew where it had to go. Watching him work always boggled my mind.
 
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