Blackpool is the Mecca of awesome trams, operating since 1885, and one of the only places where you can ride double-decker trolleys besides Hong Kong and Alexandria.  If you’re stuck on my side of the pond you can ride an open-boat tram from Blackpool in San Francisco on the F line.

alisonseabeggar:

Blackpool 304

[Terry Pinnegar on Flickr]

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A little off topic but I just love a workin’ truck.  Labeled “Pickle”.

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Possibly more Mad Max 4 vehicles?

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johnnypayphone:

Hoverbus at Mutopia, Oodnadatta Track, South Australia.

johnnypayphone:

Barnes Wallis’s April 1942 paper “Spherical Bomb — Surface Torpedo” described a method of attack in which a weapon would be bounced across water until it struck its target, then sinking to explode underwater, much like a depth charge. Bouncing it across the surface would allow it to be aimed directly at its target, while avoiding underwater defences, as well as some above the surface, and such a weapon would take advantage of the “bubble pulse” effect typical of underwater explosions, greatly increasing its effectiveness: Wallis’s paper identified suitable targets as hydro-electric dams ”and floating vessels moored in calm waters such as the Norwegian fjords”.

Both types of target were already of great interest to the British military when Wallis wrote his paper, which itself was not his first on the subject: German hydro-electric dams had been identified as important bombing targets before the outbreak of World War II, but existing bombs and bombing methods had little effect on them, torpedo nets protected them from attack by conventional torpedoes, and a practical means of destroying them had yet to be devised; and, in 1942, the British were seeking a means of destroying the German battleship Tirpitz, which posed a threat to Allied shipping in the North Atlantic, had already survived a number of British attempts to destroy it, and for much of the time was being kept safe from attack by being moored in Norwegian fjords, where nonetheless it had the effect of a “fleet in being”. Consequently Wallis’s proposed weapon attracted attention, and underwent active testing and development.

“Cannibal Harvester” by Shaggadelic

I love this first and foremost because it is done in the style of old model car boxes.  Also, it has a combine rotary thresher, and I’m a big fan of the publication “300 things you can make from a combine or schoolbus” because they cost $1500 and come with hydrostatic diesels, hoses, splitters, levers, and motors, and can be fitted with a variety of common remote-control and gps-guided systems, so it’s basically a giant robot in a box.  Thirdly, there’s a lack of good off-road hearse treatments but this one has it all, including gore-intake vents, a megaphone, cannon, machine gun, fold-down window hatch, and extended fuel range.

Oh ho ho ho.  This is a bad ass car, and if you don’t think so, you are thinking about an apocalypse where there’s a lot of gas lying around.

I love that subtle fin running the length of each side, these things are sporty little go-carts.

http://forums.finalgear.com/general-automotive/zombie-apocalypse-car-44391/page-2/

alisonseabeggar:

LMS bus on the rails

Stratford on Avon, 1932

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Yours truly at home.

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If you really want to be disappointed in the Pious hybrid car (the R is silent), check out the 1900 Lohner-Porsche electric.  Available in 2WD or 4WD with hub motors.  Available in full electric or hybrid gasoline, but they didn’t call it that then, they called it “dual drive”.   In 1906, Ferdinand Porsche was snapped up by Daimler-Benz as chief designer, and left Lohner coachworks for good. Jacob Lohner said, at the time: ‘He is very young, but is a man with a big career before him. You will hear of him again.’

steampunkvehicles:

1900 Lohner-Porsche.  Amazing!  This is what I would describe as a “phaeton” when the term is applied to a self-propelled vehicle.

Produced from 1898 to 1906.

4-wheel-drive with four electric hub motors. They also made gasoline-electric hybrids.  You’ve come a long way baby!

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com

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