Some nice noise to wake you up this morning, a nice Scotland and Australia collaboration (with some American help)
Some nice noise to wake you up this morning, a nice Scotland and Australia collaboration (with some American help)
The things you find when browsing the interweb on a Sunday morning. Via a post on vowe dot net about the Google Arts & Culture app I found the Google Arts & Culture site, where in turn I came across this picture of a Railplane trial line near Glasgow. I was intrigued.
A quick search helped me to find out this was the Bennie Railplane. It of course reminds a bit of the famous Wuppertal Schwebebahn. While sadly it wasn’t a success and almost nothing physical remains of it today there are at least three videos of it in action, first from the National Library of Scotland:
Second a short video on British Pathé:
Third a longer documentary also on British Pathé:
A few links to further information:
Certainly a very interesting invention, must have looked very futuristic back in the 1930s. Well, it wasn’t meant to be.
New single, yay! And a new album to come on 9/Sep!
Normally when I blog about whisky I do this on one of my Islay blogs. But then these two videos were filmed on the mainland, not on Islay. Nevertheless, as they were filmed in 1947 I still find them fascinating to watch:
Just because: