Streamliners

[dinkel]

www.lbforum.com/images/Messe%202004/H0%20Deak%20hungarian%20MAV%20streamline%20loco%20class%20242.jpg

[einion yrth]

www.winwaed.com/rail/LNER/locos/A/gresley_a4.jpg

[D_Mike]

The first one doesn't look very streamlined to me

[shirley temple]

Trains?







i cant find my jacket under all of these anoraks (trying to leave quietly)

[dinkel]

Beaconbouy said:

MALLARD!

What's that then?

[docevi1]

dinkel said:

Beaconbouy said: MALLARD! What's that then?

It's a typo, he was trying to say Ma'Lord in a Baldrick manor

[einion yrth]

dinkel said:

Beaconbouy said: MALLARD! What's that then?

It's a Gresley A4, like the one I posted a link to a piccie of.

[dinkel]

www.winwaed.com/rail/LNER/locos/A/a4_sng.jpg

www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~emgeedee/jpgstore/mallard.jpg

Nice . . .

http://members.aol.com/bpzephyr/pzfront.GIF

www.railway-technology.com/projects/shinkansen/images/shink11.jpg

www.ifs.tohoku.ac.jp/IFC/images/img_d03/d03_c3b2.jpg

[Yertis]

I did my Degree thesis about the streamline movement. Basically, when the DC3 came along in the middle of the depression, it represented a visual expression of an exciting future. Hence everything got streamlined to look "a bit" like the DC3, and a lot of things were designed to a teardrop form, in the mistaken belief that this was the perfect aerodynamic shape. Guys like Norman Bel Geddes, Richard Buckminster Fuller, and to a lesser extant Raymond Loewy, postulated that cars only had their engines in the front as a hangover from when carriages were horse drawn - they imagined it would be much better (simpler drivetrain, less cabin noise) if the engine was at the back. These ideas were largely overlooked in conservative Detroit, but found favour in Europe where Porsche and Tatra built cars along these lines. So, as far as cars go, probably the best example of the streamline legacy is the Porsche 911.

Fullers Dymaxion car seen here on the left (obviously)

[towman]

All the stramlined A4s were are exercise in PR (if it looks fat, then it must be fast). All that bolt in crap (can it be classified as a maxxed out steamer?) was ripped off pretty quickly as it took far too long to service and repair the things.

[towman]

anonymous said:

[redacted]

Sorry to disagree, but function over form every time for me.

[dinkel]

www.audipassion.com/univers_audi/patrimoine/auto_union/wanderer/wanderer_racing_car/wanderer_streamline_specials_02.jpg

Morgan Aero anyone?