Friday, August 11, 2023

1933 Crossley Burney Streamline cross section


 From a design by the R100 airship designer, Sir Denistoun Burney.  Only 25 were made. More here. 

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Nevil Shute (On the Beach, A Town Called Alice, etc) worked with Burney on the R100, and then later, on weaponry during WWII.

Shute's autobiography has a great deal of detail on the R100, as well as the competing, government sponsored R101. One of them crashed with multiple fatalities...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevil_Shute

rdguy

rats said...

That's one sexy automobile. It looks menacing and very fast just sitting there sawed in half.
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Nevil Shute's novel "Round the Bend" (1951) tells, kind of sidelongly, a story of an aircraft mechanic who preaches the spiritual value of good workshop practices, eventually (and without having any grand plan to do so) establishing a Zenlike quasireligion with devoted adherents in every hangar throughout Arabia and Asia. I think it's his best book by a long ways; great reading for the conscientious grease monkey.

Anonymous said...

Thanks, rats. That's going on my list

rdguy

Mister G said...

I don't know that title, but "Trustee from the toolroom" is a good read. https://progress-is-fine.blogspot.com/2012/06/good-reads-trustee-from-toolroom.html

rats said...

Oh yeah, that one's a beaut. Thanks, G, I'd forgotten about it.