Apparently this contraption is an arrangement designed in 1931 to assist film producer Geoffrey Malins in an attempt to circumnavigate the globe in a car.
Quite the adventurer, he had filmed the Battle of the Somme in 1916. He was part of a team that had tried to fly around the world in 1922, they got as far as India. In 1926 he and a partner Jimmy Baxter rode motorcycles with sidecars around the world, the journey taking 13 months. He filmed the trip and published an account "Going Further" in 1931. I don't see any evidence that the automobile trip was ever made.
"Rule Britannia,Britannia rules the waves"
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ReplyDeleteThanks! I'd like to see that sidecar from a different angle!
ReplyDeleteWhat is the propulsion method, and how would you get it back up onto dry land for disassembly?
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