Trivia Investigation Team

[bobins]

That'll be Brilliant Cut glass. Dominic Chinea visited an expert on it and covers it briefly from where the youtube starts....



Your blue pattern appears to be a very common Blue Glory Star.
https://www.artglass.org.uk/Brilliant-Cut-Glass.html

[NewcastleFalcon]

No glory stars at Chez Falcon but there was a pane of fancy etched glass in the inner door, which has now been replaced with plain flat clear glass, and a learned lesson..be very careful if you try to open a victorian half glazed door by the handle with a hammer in your hand.

When you see the price of those glory stars its hard to believe someone makes them by hand for the price. They look too precise for handmade, and a great deal of skill and precision and time would be required.

Neil

[CitroJim]

My front door glass...

The clear diamond edging allows me to see what's happening on the other side of the door

[MattBLancs]

Glass, my parents front door. All modern stuff but visually interesting all the same:

Various

I'm trying to find the proper name of a common "rippled" glass known in our family as "tulips and elephants bottoms" will have another browse when I get chance.


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But now a diversion:

This post ( viewtopic.php?p=805444#p805444 ) prompted me to ask:

Am I right: one of a very, very slim number of front wheel drive, traverse installed straight six engined cars?

Those and a few Volvo's (think they've a straight six in some, not sure if turbo i.e. T5+1 or naturally aspirated)

Which nearly posted in the above thread before thinking it better suited here!

[bobins]

I'm trying to find the proper name of a common "rippled" glass known in our family as "tulips and elephants bottoms" will have another browse when I get chance.

Flemish ?

[MattBLancs]

I'm trying to find the proper name of a common "rippled" glass known in our family as "tulips and elephants bottoms" will have another browse when I get chance.

Flemish ?

It's funny, I looked before (as was I'll say about 80% sure it was Flemish) - none of the Google images have me the "ah that's the one" feeling - looking again now it jumps out on a few but leaves me unsure on others! I'm pretty sure Flemish is the right answer.

My aunty has/had some connection to someone in glass making and they'd said it was very commonly fitted upside down! (I.e. it is supposed to be Tulips, an array of Elephants Bottoms was an error!)

[NewcastleFalcon]

But now a diversion:

This post ( viewtopic.php?p=805444#p805444 ) prompted me to ask:

Am I right: one of a very, very slim number of front wheel drive, traverse installed straight six engined cars?

Those and a few Volvo's (think they've a straight six in some, not sure if turbo i.e. T5+1 or naturally aspirated)

Which nearly posted in the above thread before thinking it better suited here!

Here is a link to a Volvo S80 engine bay complete with transverse straight six

https://www.media.volvocars.com/image/low/6449/1_1/5

Posrche developed a transverse straight six for Daewoo which also appeared in a few other models. This article has some of the story
https://www.theautopian.com/the-unassum ... d-ve-been/

Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

Moving pictures. The Daewoo car had many names from the Suzuki Verona, to the Chevrolet Evanda, the Daewoo Magnus and the Holden Epica. They all had the option of the Traversely mounted in-line 6 Cylinder engine.



Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

I'm trying to find the proper name of a common "rippled" glass known in our family as "tulips and elephants bottoms"

Look closely and you maybe can just make out a couple of elephants bottoms here..

Deep Impact Flemish

Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

Bit of extras should anyone be curious about the "Lengthsman's Hut"

From...Hickling Nottinghamshire Local History Society

https://www.hicklingnottslocalhistory.c ... hmans-hut/

The Lengthsman’s Hut stands next to the towpath as the Grantham Canal heads east from the Basin towards Grantham; about a 5-minute walk. It has always had a strong sense of ‘village memory’ about it and, as recently as the early 1990s, was a little dilapidated but its structure was clear and visible.

The Lengthsman had responsibility for maintaining his ‘length’ of the canal and there would have been several along the towpaths between Nottingham and Grantham. Probably built in the late 1800s (see Heritage Data report, below), it wouldn’t have been lived in but it had a small fireplace and chimney and would have been used for shelter and storage. The Hickling Lengthsman’s Hut is one of only two surviving huts on the Grantham Canal and is the only timber example. With a brick fireplace and chimney, the rest of the Hut was constructed from railway sleepers standing on end (a reminder of the early links with the railway companies) with an earth floor, overlaid with red bricks and a wooden roof. Such huts would generally have been made with whatever materials came easily to hand.

Before

After

Moving Pictures


Neil

[CitroJim]

Love that sleeper hut

[MattBLancs]

Off down a rabbit hole from Jim's post viewtopic.php?p=808012#p808012

here's a history of carports!

https://www.eaglecarports.com/blog/the- ... f-carports

[NewcastleFalcon]

and following on Matt, the mention of Frank Lloyd Wright leads on to this bit of coffee table reading

The Automotive Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright was obsessed with the automobile, and this passion is reflected in his greatest works.

https://www.gearpatrol.com/archive/a177 ... yd-wright/

When building the first Usonia house, the Jacobs House, he said to his client, “A car is not a horse, and it doesn’t need a barn. Cars are built well enough now so that they do not require elaborate shelter.” The result was what Wright dubbed the “carport,” a minimalist automotive shelter that would become more utilized not just in Wright’s designs, but in other home designs later in the 20th century.

and a bit of a coincidence here's FLW driving around in an good old British AC, and only a day since the AC logo graced the "Makers Name in Close Up thread" on the FCF.

Frank Lloyd Wright in his 1937 A.C. roadster with his wife Olgivanna

Neil

[MattBLancs]

Lovely "cross linking" there Neil !

[CitroJim]

Off down a rabbit hole from Jim's post viewtopic.php?p=808012#p808012

here's a history of carports!

https://www.eaglecarports.com/blog/the- ... f-carports

Makes you wonder just how old that picture is - that's a Vauxhall Cavalier. Totally missed noticing the car when I looked at that particular carport...

Shows how bad things are in my head these days