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| Little Willy Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: just around the corner
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | The Opperman
A little more digging about the Opperman Scorpion. The company built small horticultural vehicles, and later a couple of small cars. There is a little more information here http://www.isetta-owners-club-gb.com/rare_6.htm
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__________________ My mother told me, I never should, play with the gypsies in the wood. Last edited by von Poop; 02-10-2007 at 10:54 PM. Reason: Just tidying up distorted page format... don't mind me. |
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Did some follow up on this fascinating monster. This website seems to have the business. Including film of it in action. Snowcruiser
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I know, it looks for all the world like a Gerry Anderson model. I Couldn't believe that they actually built and ran it.
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__________________ Herodotus on the Persians: "It is also their general practice to deliberate upon affairs of weight when they are drunk; and then on the morrow, when they are sober, the decision to which they came the night before is put before them by the master of the house in which it was made; and if it is then approved of, they act on it; if not, they set it aside. Sometimes, however, they are sober at their first deliberation, but in this case they always reconsider the matter under the influence of wine." |
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Apologies to those that also hang about on ww2f but I had to share this Steam powered plane that one gent posted there: YouTube - The Besler Steam Plane The Besler Steam Plane 1933 - the first (and probably only) plane which successfully went into the air under steam power! Steam Aeroplanes. |
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