Completely O/T Old photo

[KerryS]

From another thread you will know that we are loft clearing and in general nothing of great interest has turned up. But I have found my old b/w photo processing stuff most of which was thrown out, the developer was seriously brown    but as well as that developing tanks and trays went plus other sundries.

What I did find though were some old photographs, for instance Jim Clark's Lotus 33 at Oulton Park in 1966 plus some cars practising at Silverstone for a mid-70's GP.

I also found lots of negatives and I have tried scanning them backed by white paper then inverting the image. What you get without any other processing is a positive image but a bit lacking in contrast.

This is one that my Dad took at Birmingham Town Hall in 1961 when a hi-fi dealer friend was demonstrating the abilities of stereo over mono. There were two banks of Quad Electostatics each fed by what I think is a Radford valve amp.

I seem to recall that this was repeated the year after with Quad 11 amps and my Dad's photo appeared on the front cover of HiFI News.

[Man On The Clapham Omnibus]

That's an impressive picture, Kerry, and the 'value' of the speakers must vie with the cost of the organ - or did I get 'value' and 'cost' the wrong way around? Are those speakers still available, I wonder, and were they really as good as they say?

[blankczechbook]

the slide and neg scanner i have uses a back light and turns off the regular flatbed scanner light while you have the neg adapter plugged in...

- i can't say that i am too impressed by the quality of the scans, or maybe the cameras weren't up to much either on those old negs and slides that i have tried.

...but this scan doesn't seem too bad - considering it is a completely DIY attempt !!

[KerryS]

I googled for negative scanning which came up with the wheeze for just using the flatbed. It did say that a lightbox could be constructed to take the scanner illumination through some mirrors and reflect it back on itself, but for a quick "look see" of the picture just back it with a white sheet of paper.

The Quad Electostatic speakers in the photo were made for several years and then they did another version for some more years but not sure if they still offer one or not. They were big and needed lots of free airspace behind to work to their best effect. For clasical music they were lovely but then I started playing errr...more modern stuff and the excursions of the bass panel were bigger and they arced across...= angry Dad spending lots of ££ to put right, they had to go back to Quad at Huntingdon.

[peterg]

I say Kerry, what an enormous organ        

[Hammy]

Quad still about and selling electrostatic speakers.

You've been in that loft for about 3 or 4 weeks now Kerry , Either its very large or you've slowed down a bit since giving up work.

[pistonbroke]

I seem to remember those same or similar speakers being demo'd in St Helens Town Hall about the same year. Very impressive.  Very expensive  

Would be very interested to see the Clark photo's perhaps you could post them up here or even email to me.

Thanks  

[KerryS]

Quad still about and selling electrostatic speakers.

You've been in that loft for about 3 or 4 weeks now Kerry , Either its very large or you've slowed down a bit since giving up work.

So they do - £5 -6 k a pair  

And I do come out of the loft occasionally  Do you really want those Anglia mags then.........

[Mark Stanton]

I recognise that Town Hall         seen a few gigs there (Paul Carrack in November was latest one     )       Hall is now fully re-furbished and looking good    

[KerryS]

IWould be very interested to see the Clark photo's perhaps you could post them up here or even email to me.

Here you go: I am fairly sure that this is the 2 litre V8 Climax that Clark was using before the BRM H16 was available. In fact I think there was a H16 engine in the back of a transporter on the day with a large hole in the block.

[Cleggy the Spyder Man]

I was named after Jim Clark, my brother is Stewart after Jackie ...  

[KerryS]

And this is a Tyrell maybe? Not sure. Think it was 1976

[gee_fin]

Spent some time scanning my Gran's old postcards, some stunning photography from the 1910s-1950s. Started a blog on it :- http://www.mygrandparentsoldpostcards.co.uk/

Really love seeing the old shots

[pistonbroke]

IWould be very interested to see the Clark photo's perhaps you could post them up here or even email to me.

Here you go: I am fairly sure that this is the 2 litre V8 Climax that Clark was using before the BRM H16 was available. In fact I think there was a H16 engine in the back of a transporter on the day with a large hole in the block.

XIII International Gold Cup

17 September 1966 - Oulton Park: 177.749 km (4.444 km x 40 laps)

1  3 Jack Brabham  Repco-Brabham BT19 'F1-1-65'     1h06m14.2, 161.01 kph

2  4 Denny Hulme     Repco-Brabham BT20 'F1-2-66'     1h06m14.2

3  2 Jim Clark      Lotus -Climax 33 'R14'       40 laps

4 15 Innes Ireland     BRM P261 '2615'     40 laps

5 10 Chris Lawrence   Cooper-Ferrari Spl T71 'F1-1-64 38 laps

No other finishers

Fastest Lap: Jack Brabham & Denny Hulme, 1:36.6, 165.60 kph

Did Not Finish

   5 Bob Anderson                   Brabham-Climax BT11             25 laps/Con rod

  11 Mike Spence                   Lotus-BRM 33                   25 laps/Clutch

   7 Graham Hill                   BRM                             25 laps/Engine

   8 Jackie Stewart                 BRM                             13 laps/Overheating

   9 John Campbell-Jones           BRP-Climax                       4 laps/Gearbox

Did Not Start

   2 Peter Arundell                 Lotus-Climax 33 Car driven by Clark

   1 Jim Clark                     Lotus-BRM 43 Blown engine

Starting Grid (3P-2-3):

1 Brabham 2 Hulme 3 Stewart

  1:34.2   1:34.8   1:35.4

              4 Hill 5 Clark

1:35.6   1:37.0

6 Anderson 7 Spence 8 Lawrence

  1:37.0   1:37.2  1:39.0

           9 Ireland 10 Campbell-Jones

  1:39.0  1:45.4

11 Arundell

  no time

Clark recorded a time identical to Stewart's when his Lotus-BRM's engine blew. He then took

over Arundell's car, setting the qualifying time shown.

[KerryS]

That'll be right then. The DNS "Lotus-BRM 43 Blown engine" agrees with  my memory