E: 30/08 (Noon) Win £250 with the Olde English Treasure Hunt (Help Please!!)

afletcher30

So taking the Smethwick website you posted.....

The best festive gift, an industrious peek

If you look in the picture gallery under the 'industry' photo album, there is a photo of a flyer for "the ideal xmas present" from A E Webber.

still trying to work out where from there

reniannen

argh, I went through that album and still missed it, not very good at this.

Ok so it's for Phillip's bicycles of Smethwick. Now to the Peek...

1984ReturnsForReal_2

afletcher30 wrote: »

So taking the Smethwick website you posted.....

The best festive gift, an industrious peek

If you look in the picture gallery under the 'industry' photo album, there is a photo of a flyer for "the ideal xmas present" from A E Webber.

still trying to work out where from there

It wasnt webber it was phillips cycles.

afletcher30

Yes, Phillips or Webber the supplier either way I am struggling to find a link then to "H F", I do know that Phillips were bought out by Raleigh? Raleigh have been making bikes in Nottingham for 120 years, not sure if I am going down a dead end

reniannen

I'm not sure if 'industrious peek' is solved by having a look 'peek'? through the industry photo album, or if it's supposed to lead to something else? Either way I tied myself in knots last night and got nowhere with H F or anything to do with peek and bikes or Philip Peeks...

Squoozy

I think I've got it. Horatio Frederick Phillips invented a flying machine, but I can't find where he flew!

http://www.flyingmachines.org/phil.html

reniannen

I think it was in Streatham where he was born http://www.aeronauticalarchive.co.uk/Article_3.htm

Streatham London fits? Doesn't seem quite right to me though, I wouold expect a comma in between the words

Squoozy

The track where he experimented was in Harrow, which must be the second word, but I can't find exactly where yet - still looking!

Squoozy

No I've changed my mind it must be Streatham

The first powered aeroplane flight in the UK was made by Horatio Frederick Phillips of England, who, in 1904, designed 1904 Multiplane, modified it, and, in 1907, designed and built his wooden 1907 Multiplane, with four sets of 50 individual wings, mounted on top of each other in a bank, set in a large cage, which, on 6 April 1907, powered by a 22 hp engine, successfully flew 150m (500ft) at Streatham, London.

http://www.general-ignorance.com/ofaviation.htm

jaydeetee

Could it be streatham common (on the basis that the successful flight was probably in the same place)?

In 1904 he produced the first design which he hoped would be capable of carrying a man. The craft, similar to his earlier test models, had 20 multiplanes and was powered by a 22-hp piston engine of his own design. This engine powered a two bladed tractor propeller. Complete with pilot the “Phillips Multiplane” weighed 600 lb.
(272 kg.) and although the lift generated seemed to be sufficient for flight it lacked the necessary longitudinal stability. This deficiency in direction control led to a series of mishaps when the machine was tested on Streatham Common and although it underwent several changes in design it failed to leave the ground.

http://www.aeronauticalarchive.co.uk/Article_3.htm