Cars Gallery

Chenard Walcker motor car 1906 BB97_08148

Farnborough Grange, Farnborough, Warwickshire. A view of a man sitting in a Chenard Walcker motor car. Notice it does not have any lights apart from what looks to be a large spot light mounted on the bonnet. An early Automobile Association badge is in front of the windscreen. The organisation was formed in 1905 to help motorists avoid police speed traps!. Photographed by Alfred Newton and Son, 1906

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Parking at the office JLP01_01_075_38

BERKELEY POWER STATION, BERKELEY, HAM AND STONE, STROUD, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Looking south-west over the temporary offices on the Berkeley Nuclear Power Station construction site, showing double-decker buses and cars in the foreground.
Berkeley Nuclear Power Station was the first commercial nuclear power station in the United Kingdom and one of the first generation of nuclear reactors in Britain. Laing were the civil engineers for the project with work commencing on 7th January 1957. The 57 acre site included offices and temporary housing with facilities for the workers on site

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