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It is an old picture Dek. Ugly bloke.
The buildings are St Johns Cambridge.
Nevermind might be interested in the bus in Berlin, German public transport isn't always brilliant.
Trabant, the only cardboard car, in East Germany.
Rare picture of the late Tony Rudd with a rebuilt prototype BRM H16 engine, which he designed.
BRM used it in the late 1950's, it had pistons the size of egg cups and revved almost the same as a modern F1 engine.
Tony worked for Colin Chapman and ended as MD of Lotus running Johnny Herbert in the last FI car.
Tony started at ERA and continued to drive 'Remus' the 'automatic gearbox' ERA he helped design, in the 1930,s at the Goodwood hill climb every year into the 90,s.
During the war he was a navigator on Mosquitoes and he also helped with the Lancaster of the BBF.
My friend Alec Stokes worked with Tony right from the ERA days, his home is in Bourne where ERA had its base, it is now a bus company. One of the bus company directors regularly visits the BGP with Alec and John Surtees.
Alec designed the gearboxes for BRM including the cheese grater box for those in the know.
He is rated as probably the most gifted of the transmission engineers in F1.
He helped me work up my ideas for the first modern auto boxes now used in F1.
Now the SICK part, Alec ended up working in a small shed on a windy old airfield, the last vestige of Britain's superb engineering talent from those who brought our country the Spitfire and and all the other long forgotten icons of British ingenuity.
The later generations do not hold a candle to people like them and it is why I have no respect for the modern greedy ways and the people who leech off it whatsoever.
Dream on keithgerrard@gerrard24.freeserve.co.uk
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