> > From: Jim Hemenway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/07/15 Fri AM 02:51:17 GMT > To: [email protected] > Subject: Another car show - revisited > > Hi Keith: > > Sonny Carter identified most of the cars and I've updated the the pages > to reflect the car names. Which car do you think is the MOG? > > These cars were brought in by their owners from all over the northeast, > including parts of Canada. > > Thanks to Mike Wilson for naming "11, "Triking, I think. Modern version > using Moto Guzzi engines. Doesn;t look quite right for one of those > but it's the only one I know in production." > > http://www.triking-cyclecars.co.uk/
That's the MOG, short for Morgan. A car company started in Malvern, UK, before the first world war and still in existence. They built three wheel cyclecars until about 1937, when they began to make four wheelers. The modern Triking is a lookalike of the three wheelers. Funny that you can still buy new the direct descendant of the car that the modern creation is a homage to. > 11 - The gull front candy car in the background of this photo was > another three-wheeler. There were two more, one with long windows as > in a station wagon, and one with windows only in the front with the > rest of the car looking like a panel truck. A car like these was used as > a "sinister car" in the Mr. Bean series on > television > > 13, 14, 15 - I like this car. A large number of the cars took turns > providing free rides around this part of the estate. This owner seemed > to have had the greatest time doing it, with the driver of the Triking > being a close second. > > Everyone seemed to be having a fun time, I didn't even hear any children > crying. > > The building in the background of some of the photos is the Museum of > Transportation and was formerly the carriage house for the Andersons. > Currently, there is a show of early French cars from the museum's > collection. > > The Andersons were a very wealthy couple who owned this 26 acre estate > in the early 20th century. Actually Isabel Anderson, Larz's wife, was > the car collector and the museum should be named after her. I can > remember when the mansion was demolished in 1955. It was mach larger > than the carriage house and had a ballroom that must have been over 200 > feet in diameter. > > Here's more information if anyone is interested: > > http://www.mot.org/ > > http://www.mot.org/Museum/andersons.html > > http://www.culturaltourismdc.org/calendar2532/calendar_show.htm?doc_id=273857&img=1 > > http://tinyurl.com/b7lvm > > http://www.townofbrooklinemass.com/recreation/LarzAnderson.html > > http://tinyurl.com/7wwe7 > > Jim > > > keithw wrote: > > > Jim Hemenway wrote: > > > >> Nothing "artsy" or particularly well composed, just a few shots taken > >> at a "mini" car show at the Larz Anderson Museum in Brookline, MA last > >> Saturday. > >> > >> The lighting was alternately light and dark due to the passing of > >> tropical depression "Cindy", the remnants of which can be seen in the > >> last photo. > >> > >> http://www.hemenway.com/MOT/ > >> > >> Pentax isDS, 14mm used for most of them. > >> > >> Ji > > > > > > Oh, what a treat! > > Only a few I couldn't recognize right away. > > Nostalgia time! > > What a beautiful MOG! > > And a Messerschmidt! > > Even a few authentic Minis! ;-) > > > > Thanks for a good look-see! > > > > keith whaley > > > > P.S. Who's Larz Anderson? > > > > > > ----------------------------------------- Email provided by http://www.ntlhome.com/
