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Right... Now all is clear, I went to the site of the former Lotus Works in Hornsey yesterday.
Stan Chapman's former Railway Hotel is now an asian (?) restaurant and Funky Brownz bar.
http://www.allinlondon.co.uk/clubs_bars/venue-7075.php
Evidently it did not last long as a pub called The Wishing Well.
The white square that you can just see on the side of the Jewson's building in the Google Street photos is indeed the Colin Chapman memorial plaque.
I took lots of photos and will post them here when I've twiddled their sizes etc.
There is no evidence at all of any plan to convert the site to a Lotus Museum.
Stan Chapman's former Railway Hotel is now an asian (?) restaurant and Funky Brownz bar.
http://www.allinlondon.co.uk/clubs_bars/venue-7075.php
Evidently it did not last long as a pub called The Wishing Well.
The white square that you can just see on the side of the Jewson's building in the Google Street photos is indeed the Colin Chapman memorial plaque.
I took lots of photos and will post them here when I've twiddled their sizes etc.
There is no evidence at all of any plan to convert the site to a Lotus Museum.
Bill Williams
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Following up on this theme, does anyone know the exact location of the Cheshunt factory?
Last time I went to Cheshunt I found myself on a ring of roundabouts with to exit from them.
Last time I went to Cheshunt I found myself on a ring of roundabouts with to exit from them.
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It's next door to (and dwarfed by) Tesco's head office - it's now a gym I believe. There is another thread in autosports TNF forum that has some pics about 2 years ago.
Can't look them up just yet - but do a search for cheshunt.
Regards
Richard
Can't look them up just yet - but do a search for cheshunt.
Regards
Richard
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There is indeed a place called Monster Gym next to Tescos in Delamere Rd, Cheshunt.
Is this the former Lotus Works?
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Delamar ... 85.28,,0,0
Is this the former Lotus Works?
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Delamar ... 85.28,,0,0
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billwill wrote:There is indeed a place called Monster Gym
"Monster Gym"? Max Bygraves springs to mind...as in "Fings ain't what they used t'be"
However, have found another couple of pics.
Is that a rotoflex type coupling on the output shaft? Looks like it and no torque wrench in sight...
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Can't find anything on here...but what do we know about current state of the Lotus Works in Edmonton, North London?
Bill? Anyone?
Bill? Anyone?
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billwill wrote:Was there a Lotus Works in Edmonton? When was that?
"The new Lotus Elite was still on the drawing board then and Ron (Hickman) was ostensibly employed as a production engineer but at Lotus, who were still at the small Edmonton works"
Ref: http://www.motormarques.com/london-desk ... rth-update
"Lotus, Williams & Pritchard and the Progress Chassis Company were all situated within a stones throw of each other in Edmonton, North London"
Ref: http://www.lotuseleven.co.uk/#/williams ... 4543557353
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I suspect that that article was just a badly researched piece of writing by Carol Corliss , she probably meant the Hornsea works on Tottenham Lane; it's not very far from Edmonton.
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=d&sourc ... =UTF8&z=13
We know that Progress Chassis Company was in the street opposite the Tottenham Lane works.
Something else she wrote: "Fabulous road holding along with the Ford twin cam tuned engine"
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=d&sourc ... =UTF8&z=13
We know that Progress Chassis Company was in the street opposite the Tottenham Lane works.
Something else she wrote: "Fabulous road holding along with the Ford twin cam tuned engine"
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The top picture of ardee_selby's post is of a coil-ignition Austin Seven engine and 3-speed gearbox, with the standard fabric coupling that forms the front propshaft u/j of these devices.
Almost certainly not part of any Lotus, but possibly a customer job or even a rebuild of one of the several Sevens that the Lotus crew had at that time.
Almost certainly not part of any Lotus, but possibly a customer job or even a rebuild of one of the several Sevens that the Lotus crew had at that time.
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Up to and including the Mk 3 Lotus they all had Austin Seven engines. When I say all, it's not on a mass produced scale!
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