
Ten times per year we have a free competition. All you have to do is send in your entry. All correct entries are put in a 'hat' and the winner(s) chosen at random. In the last year our prizes have totalled many thousands of pounds in value, all donated by our generous friends in the model car business.
COMPETITION MAR 259
AUTOMODELLO PACKARDJim Cowen donated this model as our prize, from his Automodello 1:43 handbuilt range, a 1938 Packard Twelve Convertible Victoria in ivory white. See page 14 for Harvey Goranson's review of this lovely model. At MAR we use a Hewlett-Packard printer, whose maker is unrelated to Packard cars. Our questions relate to people or other items with the same names as famous car marques:
1) The maker of the first 'vibrating shuttle' sewing machine in 1885.
2) He first propounded the method of logarithms in 1614.
3) Hull-based Oil Company which made Humbrol hobby paint tinlets.
4) The name of the Lockheed Model 14 Super Electra in wartime RAF service.
5) Italian diecast model range reproduced in later years by Scottoy.
Send your answers on a nice picture postcard to MAR 259 Competition, 81 Main Street, Monk Fryston, Leeds LS25 5DU, UK or fax to +44 (0) 1977 681991 or phone +44 (0) 1977 681991 (UK business hours), email editor @ mar.zeteo.com.
Answers must arrive with us no later than 20 February 2012. If you send answers by email, please add a postal address, or you won't be considered for a prize. The names of those who give at least three correct answers will be listed in MAR, along with all the answers.
Please note the closing date for this competition. Once again we remind you that the closing date is FINAL.
COMPETITION MAR 257: ANSWERS
LANSDOWNE ASTON MARTIN DB2-4Thanks to the generosity of Brooklin Models, our prize in MAR 257 was a 1:43 handbuilt Lansdowne, LDM89 Aston Martin DB2-4 Mark II 1957. 'Aston' refers to the Aston Clinton hillclimb in Buckingham-shire, so our questions related to that county:
1) Which Australian F1 driver lives in Aston Clinton? A): Mark Webber
2) Which aircraft company built the Type 163 Buckingham twin-engined medium bomber? A): Bristol
3) Whose car factory, controlled by S F Edge, was in Aylesbury? A): Cubitt (see the Auto Review 'AC Album')
4) Which car firm was set up in Chalfont St Peter by Air Vice Marshal D C T Bennett ? A): Fairthorpe
5) Which film studio, in Iver Heath, made most of the JamesBond films? A): Pinewood
At least three correct answers were received from:
Mike Balch, Des Moines, IA, USA
Ian Barnard, Worcester
Gunnar Bernstrup, Limhamn, Sweden
Martin Bishop, Newbury, Berks
Simon Bowsie, Saintfield, Co Down, N Ireland
Stuart Brotchie, Achnasheen, Ross-shire
Cyril Brown, Farnborough, Hants
Phil Campbell, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Willie Coon, Sulphur, OK, USA
Tony Ellis, Sudbury, Suffolk
Richard Feibusch, Venice, CA, USA
Rodney Fox, Bitterne, Southampton
Bill Gatenby, Gateshead, Tyne & Wear
Ron Gersbank, Hout Bay, South Africa
Peter Glegg, Pevensey, East Sussex
Harvey Goranson, Oak Ridge, TN, USA
Mike Graham, Newark, Nottinghamshire
Roger Hall, Dorchester, Dorset
Edward H Hill, Newcastle upon Tyne
Roger Hirschland, Washington, DC, USA
Jim Jamieson, Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Marti Juanola, Barcelona, Spain
Peter Kite, Bolton, Lancashire
Jukka Lampela, Esbo, Finland
Udo Lander, Forbach/Schwarzwald, Germany
Geoff Mason, Newbury, Berkshire
Bernard McMinn, Mawson, ACT, Australia
John Melis, Athens, Greece
Stuart Milne, Aberdeen
Peter Molchanoff, Wahroonga, NSW, Australia
David Nicholl, Newtownabbey, Co Antrim
Hans Nordström, Helsinki, Finland
Nick O'Hara, Farnham, Surrey
Fabrizio Panico, Roma, Italy
John Quilter, Eugene, OR, USA
Derrick Ridout, Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire
C W Ringeling, Heinkenszand, Netherlands
Paolo Ruggeri, Genova, Italy
Eckbert Sauer, Stadensen, Germany
Karl Schnelle, Indianapolis, IN, USA
Philip Smith, West Wickham, Kent
Brian Stewart, Stenhousemuir, Stirlingshire
Carville Stewart, N Canterbury, New Zealand
R M Sturrock, Arbroath, Angus
David Taylor, Newtownabbey, Co Antrim
John Warburton, Kidderminster
Gerald Watkins, Birmingham
R K Williams, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Maz Woolley, Northampton
Jan Ziegler, Karlsruhe, Germany
What a long list! and a big pile for Amelia to sniff through.
She chose Peter Kite of Bolton to win the Aston Martin model.
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