"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
11/22/2018 at 19:06 • Filed to: None
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"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
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I bought these prints at the Deutsches Museum in Munich in 1990 or ‘91.
RacinBob
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11/22/2018 at 19:30 |
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The Deutsches Museum is one of the best technical Museums in the world. I walked around their hall of motors and also their WW1 stuff and wondered how the heck we won the war.
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> RacinBob
11/22/2018 at 19:33 |
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I think we won the war because Adolph Hitler was verrückt.
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RacinBob
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11/22/2018 at 19:38 |
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To my eye, t he WW1 aircraft and zeppelin materials were very sophisticated. The workmanship on the duraluminum airframes was magnificent.
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> RacinBob
11/22/2018 at 20:02 |
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The British had some pretty high-quality engineering going on during WWII as well. Merlin engine... (They still think they’re the stuff...)
ranwhenparked
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11/22/2018 at 20:56 |
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British industry seemed pretty much even with the best of the world, until sometime in the 1950s (aircraft, shipbuilding, computers, motorcycles, cars) , when their major companies seem like they started to loose their edge for some reason. At one point, around 1949, the fastest airliner, train, car, ship, and motorcycle in the world were all simultaneously British.
ttyymmnn
> ranwhenparked
11/22/2018 at 20:59 |
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when their major companies seem like they started to loose their edge for some reason.
Government interference.
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> ranwhenparked
11/22/2018 at 21:12 |
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I was active Army from ‘84-90 and toward the end of that period, I spent some time with some British soldiers who were certain that anything automotive that came out of England was superior to anything else. For example: one of the guys drove a Vauxhall sedan and I asked, “Isn’t that just a GM sedan?” His reply, “Yes, but of course it runs better.”
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ranwhenparked
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11/22/2018 at 21:14 |
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Well, I guess it would depend on the particular Vauxhall sedan .
But, that was well into the period when they were losing their identity to Opel.
Cé hé sin
> ranwhenparked
11/23/2018 at 05:34 |
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Lack of money after the war would be the main reason I'd guess
pip bip - choose Corrour
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11/23/2018 at 07:17 |
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Wanderer looks the best
IMO