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Re Newnes Practical
Magazines
Date: 18/02/09 9:57:07 AUS Eastern Daylight Time
From: briskiwi@bigpond.com.au (Ron)
Many years ago I bought a huge cardboard box of magazines, most
were Practical Engineering and edited by FJ Camm. Unfortunately
the whole lot were stolen in 1999 and until tonight i had never
found any reference to the practical series of magazines
anywhere. Although I understand that today's Practical Classics
magazine is a descendant so to speak. I also thought that FJ Camm
was simply a name used by several different persons as a generic
pen name. He must have been absolutely brilliant because of the
breadth of engineering subjects covered and the enormous number
of books and articles published. If anyone ever comes across any
issues of Practical Engineer they may wish to sell, please
contact me, Ron Bunting at briskiwi@bigpond.com.au
I've also listed on our WANTED page, Ron
Date: 21/03/09 1:09:43 AUS
Eastern Daylight Time
From: kevin@thomasfineart.net (Kevin Thomas)
I have an oil painting frontispiece of two children on a wooden
ladder, in an orchard, picking dark red plums.The painting,
unsigned is inscribed 'SSU Frontispiece' and is possibly by one
of the Wonder Book- Childrens artists- Arthur Elsley, Frederick
Morgan or Sheridan Knowles.I wonder if any guest recalls seeing
such an image and if I could purchase the book.
Kind Regards
Kevin Thomas, Hungerford, Berkshire England
Info@thomasfineart.net .
Date: 12/07/09 11:55:39 AUS
Eastern Standard Time
From: kerryp@pomroyinc.biz (Kerry Pomroy)
Our Grandfather, an apprentice motor mechanic when WW1 broke out,
became first a dispatch rider, but due to injury, transferred to
the mechanical engineers with the Australian Flying Corps and
eventually became a flyer, taking aerial photographs on
reconnaissance missions over France & Germany. After the war
he became a motorcycle dirt track speedway racer and toured
England and Scotland from 1926 to 1930. I know that the prolific
author of many Chums and others stories, Alfred Edgar was
apparently an avid speedway fan and followed the riders from meet
to meet, befriending them, whilst gaining valuable inspiration
for many of his stories. I recently browsed the titles index and
discovered a couple which I would love to read if anybody has a
copy. Is it possible that our Grandfather was the inspiration for
such titles as "The Dirt Track Airman" Chums, Jan 22,
1929, "Garage Jim's Star Turn", The Boys Friend Apr 3,
1926, "Garage Jim", The Boys Friend Jan 2, 1926, or
perhaps even "Dispatch Runners" The Modern Boy, Nov 29,
1930.? Ps: His name was William but he was known as Jimmy.
Thanks, Kerry.
Date: 24/08/09 12:11:45 AUS
Eastern Standard Time
From: Mark
Found your site while looking for something (anything) to do with
Bilda-brix ... just wanting to show the lovers of Lego that there
was something we kids played with before Lego. / I probably got
them as a birthday present in the mid-to-late 1950s, and have
vague memories of building lots of stuff with them. I also had a
basic Meccano set around that time. I wish I knew what happened
to both of them. I suspect they were probably lost when we moved
house in 1961, and again in 1963. / It was also in my childhood
years that I was given a Tri-ang TT-guage trainset. A single
loop, which I later expanded to a single parallel straight
section. Handiwork was not one of my strengths in those days (it
still isn't), so I didn't do much with it. It came with (I think)
an 0-6-0 shunting engine, a passenger carriage, a couple of goods
wagons, (Shell?) fuel tank and a guard's van. And, like Greg, I
still remember the smell of the oil and ozone as it ran. / I
still have that set - and the now well-worn box - it came in.
It's in storage along with a whole house-full of other stuff that
I can't bear to part with. It'd probably need some maintenance
done on it before I ran it ... it would have been sitting in the
box for a good 40 years. My set came with a 240/12 volt AC/DC
transformer and a rheostat speed/direction controller. I haven't
seen the transformer for years, and last remember using it as a
DC source for some experiments with electroplating. I'll have to
build/acquire another 12v DC power supply before I'd even
contemplate putting the loco back on line again. / Thanks for
stirring up the memories, John.
Good to hear from you,
Mark. Your memories bear many similarities to my own. Maybe you
should go and remove a few of your goodies out of storage! That's
what I've been doing with my own stuff.
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