[SEL] Anson Engine Museum / IMechE Presentation to JCB

[Dave Merchant]

One of the US cable channels, either History or Discovery,
has shown (several times) a program about Speed Week
at Bonneville, which includes the problems that the JCB team
went thru to get the record. Unfortunately, the car included
some computers, which of course were blamed for most
of the problems.

The program primarily focused on 3 teams, JCB, a teenage
girl's first time in a rather fast streamliner, and a privateer
with a Sunbeam Tiger.

Excellent show, with a lot about the people who do this.

Makes you want to go out there sometime

Dave Merchant


At 04:58 PM 10/9/2008, you wrote:
>We had an interesting day at the Anson Engine Museum today, on the
>occasion of the presentation by the Institute of mechanical Engineers
>of an Engineering Heritage Award to JCB, for the Dieselmax engine that
>was used in the recent world-speed record for diesel engined vehicles.
>
>We got there early so had to time to top up our pictures for our own
>websites, and also to go round and take notes for those previously
>posted that have no or incorrect captions.
>
>The presentation was a fairly informal affair, set in the diesel
>exhibition hall, surrounded by old and new diesel engines of all
>types, including the 1st diesel built in the UK and the 3rd diesel in
>the world.
>
>I have some pictures of the ceremony and will get them up on the
>websites over the weekend, we've just arrived back home at 10pm having
>left this morning early to go to Crewe and Bury first.
>
>Peter
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