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Feb 28, 2010: Swancar
Come away with me, Lucille,
In my merry 1910 Brooke swancar.
Nope, that doesn't work very well.
| THE 1910 Brooke Swan Car was the brainchild of a wealthy British engineer, Robert Nicholl "Scotty" Matthewson, who lived at Swan Park, Calcutta, then the capital of British India. In 1909, Matthewson travelled to England to commission a truly eccentric motor car from the Brooke company of Lowestoft, Suffolk. Its wooden body was apparently built by Savage of Kings Lynn, Britain's most famous maker of steam-powered fairground rides. The swan's head and body, carved to create the effect of feathers, concealed the radiator and bonnet. |
Image from Supercars dot net
| Matthewson's car arrived in Calcutta in April 1910. It had amber eyes that glowed eerily in the dark, a multi-note Gabriel exhaust horn with a keyboard in the rear of the car so that Scotty could play chords and bugle calls, and a hot water spray in the swan's beak that enabled the chauffeur to clear a passage through Calcutta's crowded streets. |
The tiny picture in the Telegraph article shows slightly different trim, with big headlights and a snake for a horn.
But the Brits are always classy...
| A dump valve inside the car dropped splats of whitewash on to the road from the Swan's rear end - just to make it more lifelike. |
Adak Sunday Feb 28 07:59 AM
Funny stuff! 
cabbagepulley Sunday Feb 28 08:22 AM
Got to be safer than a Toyota. 
Gravdigr Sunday Feb 28 01:43 PM
Ghey.
Michael Jackson woulda loved it.
Sheldonrs Sunday Feb 28 06:43 PM
And if anything breaks, you can use duck tape to fix it.
xoxoxoBruce Sunday Feb 28 06:47 PM
No no, Swan tape.
monster Sunday Feb 28 07:25 PM
After midnight it turns into a squash
....ed swan
Nirvana Sunday Feb 28 08:45 PM
New Owner
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xoxoxoBruce Sunday Feb 28 11:44 PM
I'd give her a ride.
spudcon Monday Mar 1 06:02 PM
Attachment to Swan car- Duct tape goose.
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