Steve 📷

I have that catalogue which I got at the time. I used to buy it every year. It was 15p or something like that.

I always forget to look at what’s on arte HD (472).

It happens to us all.

That is absolute stupidity.

The Opel Olympia (1936) may look quite ordinary, but it’s an important milestone. It was the first car in the world built using monocoque construction from pressed steel. The contemporary Olympics souvenir grille badge and ADAC badge are a nice touch.

Something you don’t see every day… a BMW 3.0 CSi convertible. BMW did not offer a convertible of course, so this left the factory as a Coupe and was converted by a coachbuilder in Wuppertal.

Two icons for the price of one! 1978 Ford Capri III 2.3 S, Messerschmitt Bf 109 G-4 (1942) at Speyer 🇩🇪

Just some old Mercs 😍

Messerschmitt Bf 109 G-4, the last survivor of 1,242 type G-4 built. Built in Wiener Neustadt 🇦🇹 it saw active service with Jagdgeschwader 52 on the eastern front. Due to engine failure, it was ditched in the Black Sea in March 1942. In 1987, it was salvaged & restored in Italy.

There are over 40 exhibits in the firefighting section. The 2nd picture is a Magirus S 3500 Sirius fire engine, in service in Gütersloh 🇩🇪 from 1951 until 1985. The airport fire tender was in service at Frankfurt from 1970-1985, then Saarbrücken-Ensheim until 1994 🔥

I was going to call this a traction engine, but more properly, it is a John Fowler Showman’s Road Locomotive. Built in 1917, and registered number EB 6276, it has ended up in Speyer 🇩🇪 But presumably not under its own steam! It’s quite an eclectic transport museum.

Despite being painted in a very Italian racing red, this is a British-built Sunbeam 3 Litre Twin Cam Roadster from 1927. I bet it’s a lot of fun too 😎

This Junkers Ju-52 was 1 of 11 carrying supplies for the Battle of Narvik in 1940. After landing on frozen lake Hartvigvannet (Norway) only 1 aircraft was able to take off. The rest were abandoned and sank to the bottom of the lake. In 1986, this one was raised from the lake bed.

This little Mercedes-Benz O319 bus (1964) was cute.

Amphibious vehicles come in all sizes. I’ve always rather fancied an Amphicar, but I’m not sure if I would have the courage to drive it into a river 😀 Despite the Triumph Herald engine, it was built in Lübeck West Germany, and West Berlin.

If I ever win the lottery, I won’t tell anyone. But there may be signs.

"Wildcat" racing boat (1923), which has had various engines over the years, but is currently powered by a Rolls-Royce Merlin engine (27 litres, 650 hp).

I assume he may have imported it to the UK in 1973 or 1974 judging by the L registration.

Stanley Mann Racing shut down in 2016 when he died, I think.

This 1961 Mercedes-Benz LP 322 racing car transporter is in the colours of Stanley Mann Racing, but was also used by Eifelland, a German F1 team named after the owner’s caravan business. One of the many cool exhibits at Technik Museum Speyer 😎

Turntable

They are more interesting and look cooler. It’s a tactile experience, which tapping a phone screen isn’t. They aren’t better in any measurable sense of course, and are definitely a lot less convenient.

“The radio’s playing some forgotten song…”

Experimenting with a newly acquired long unused receiver made in 1975.

Test 2, the phono stage, with a record I bought in 1974, maybe the first time it’s been played in 40 years 🎸 🔊🔊 ✅

Experimenting with a newly acquired long unused receiver made in 1975.

Test 1, the FM radio and amplifier, both channels 🔊🔊 ✅

Autotrader has been an EV shill for ages. Nobody is quite sure why a mere advertising medium thinks it needs to give its biased opinions on the subject.

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A ten inch D, you say.

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My understanding is that like ‘die Hose’, it looks like a plural
form, but is treated as singular, meaning a pair of.

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Duolingo is delivering today.

It wasn’t bad though, to be fair!

Episodes vary in picture quality but because they have been remastered from film, it’s generally really good. It’s like a window on a world that we couldn’t see at the time. And the stories are pretty good too.

On the 1981 episode I’m watching of Polizeiruf 110 (an East German crime show), some villains have made off with a haul of decadent imported music centres, presumably intended for important party bigwigs. But the Polizei are on the case. And they always win, of course.