{"id":459,"date":"2017-05-10T20:56:42","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T19:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkandscary.co.uk\/?p=459"},"modified":"2017-05-10T20:56:42","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T19:56:42","slug":"lambourn-vintage-machinery-society-show-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkandscary.co.uk\/?p=459","title":{"rendered":"Lambourn Vintage Machinery Society Show 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

David M0ICZ invited me to this year’s Lambourn Vintage Machinery Society<\/a> 2017 show. Part agricultural show, part auto jumble and part vintage vehicle and machinery exhibition, it was a fascinating day out. I was particularly keen to go, as David had been working very hard in restoring his 1941 Austin K2 van so that he could display it.<\/p>\n

\"Austin<\/a>
1941 Austin K2, proud to be on display at Lambourn in May 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"K2<\/a>
Austin K2 information board<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"K2<\/a>
Another view of the K2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"K2<\/a>
K2 Rear view<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Another item that will always get my attention at these sort of events is the static engine. Little Lister and Petter engines that pop and burble away happily, pumping water or generating electricity are fascinating. Lambourn had a very good selection this year – here are just some…<\/p>\n

\"Idling<\/a>
Small static engine just idling<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"red<\/a>
Engine driving a very nice red pump<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Lister<\/a>
A combination Lister engine and pump set<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There are always some rarities and oddities at these shows. The rare…<\/p>\n

\"M3<\/a>
US World war two M3 half track<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

…and the odd!<\/p>\n

\"raleigh<\/a>
Raleigh moped-shopping-bike-thing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

David M0ICZ invited me to this year’s Lambourn Vintage Machinery Society 2017 show. Part agricultural show, part auto jumble and part vintage vehicle and machinery exhibition, it was a fascinating day out. I was particularly keen to go, as David had been working very hard in restoring his 1941 Austin K2 van so that he … Continue reading Lambourn Vintage Machinery Society Show 2017<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,11],"tags":[17,15],"class_list":["post-459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vintage-machinery","category-vintage-vehicles","tag-vintage-machinery","tag-vintage-vehicle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkandscary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkandscary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkandscary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkandscary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkandscary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/darkandscary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":461,"href":"https:\/\/darkandscary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions\/461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkandscary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkandscary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkandscary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}