COVENTRY MESSAGE BOARD

I owned a Graber Convertible for a very short time, and years ago, had a 1937 Speed 25 Charlesworth saloon. The Graber was a sublime car, and beautifully made. I suspect it was really the big cats from Brown's Lane that finally killed Alvis, as equivalent jaguars were about half the price, more musc...

This is an interesting thread, as I was looking at a Rolls Royce B80 engine from a Dennis Pax fire appliance just the other day. It was being used, powered by LPG, to power a massive generator at a sawmill. It was a straight eight with the usual RR overhead inlet, side exhaust valve layout (like the...

The Coventry Victor factory was, in the 60s, Pool Meadow. They ceased car production in the thirties I think. There was nothing on the factory to say Coventry Victor, but a large sign saying "Victor Vibrationless". They latterly made a range of flat twin and flat four stationary engines of...

Great footage, and very nostalgic. Farnborough was an annual outing for me and I can remember being fascinated by the Skeeter Copter. Thank you for this, Rebbonk. I could easily stay up all night watching them.

Thank you Dutchman, it's nice to see you here too. Lovely to have two excellent sites to play on.

There is no real mystery as to why the "wing" was shelved. it suffered all the problems that swept wing aircraft usually suffer but many times worse. Because of the varying lift along the span, there is a tendency for the wing to twist. If you consider the forces needed to control pitch wi...