Monday, January 31, 2022

Early amphibian with Geoffrey Malins



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.



 

4 comments:

Billy Oleary said...

"Rule Britannia,Britannia rules the waves"

Billy Oleary said...

http://www.vintagebike.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/captain-malins-1927-oec-temple-3-743x570.jpg

Mister G said...

Thanks! I'd like to see that sidecar from a different angle!

Graham Clayton said...

What is the propulsion method, and how would you get it back up onto dry land for disassembly?