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calex_fr Registered User
Joined: 18 Jul 2008 Posts: 408 Location: Champagne (France)
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Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 8:13 am Post subject: Album |
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I propose to make an album with pictures of known Olympics, perhaps like the Turner club do in the section Photos by Chassis Number http://www.turnersportscars.co.uk/.
I start with mine :
TLG832D with Paul
Now in France
CCC194
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calex_fr Registered User
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Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 8:13 am Post subject: |
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Do you know this phase one ?
_________________ Alexandre Contat
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KN Registered User
Joined: 21 Jan 2006 Posts: 62 Location: Sydney Australia
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Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 10:11 am Post subject: |
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Hi Alex,
There is already under owners cars, a facility to post pictures of all Rochdales.
Regards Keith N
Phase 2 Esu 816 _________________ Olympic Phase 2r ESU816 |
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calex_fr Registered User
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TonyS Registered User
Joined: 17 Jan 2006 Posts: 231 Location: Worcestershire
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Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 10:42 am Post subject: |
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Hi Alex,
Chassis numbers mean nothing on Rochdales most are made up,
the only cross-reference is the Registration Number and the
Rochdale Motor Panels invoice number.
Also if anyone has photos of their Olympic, specially early ones from the 1960s please send in 1Mb size to tony-stanton@fsmail.net for the Rochdale Olympic database.
Kind regards
Tony |
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calex_fr Registered User
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Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 10:49 am Post subject: |
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This database is online ? _________________ Alexandre Contat
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TonyS Registered User
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Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 11:15 am Post subject: |
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No this information can not be put on line, at the moment any information is only available verbally or by e-mail through the
Olympic Registrar
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Tony |
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Paul Narramore Registered User
Joined: 13 Mar 2006 Posts: 181 Location: Aylesford, Kent.
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Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 10:36 pm Post subject: |
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I think Alexandre is (quiet rightly) trying to gee things along from years of lethargy on this forum.
Alexandre
As has been said, Olympics had chassis numbers 'invented' by their constructors and not sequential as with other makes of cars. Company order numbers can often but not always be attributed to a particular car. Registration numbers are still, but not always, as they get swopped, the best way to identifying a car. Some years ago I began a list of all known cars which was in alphabetical order and this is now in the care of the club's Olympic Registrar, Derek Bentley. |
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calex_fr Registered User
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Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 7:36 am Post subject: |
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No problem, why not do it by registration number, like my first post ?
There are too many Olympic survival ?
How many are known and how many are in a state of rolling ? _________________ Alexandre Contat
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Paul Narramore Registered User
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Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 8:42 am Post subject: |
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Alexandre
The generally accepted figures of Olympics produced by Rochdale Motor Panels is 250 PhIs and 150 PhIIs.
Derek's register is of all known Olympics and listed by their registration numbers. Some have disappeared, some caught fire and some wrecked in crashes.
As for numbers currently existing, well there are about 100-110 members and the majority have Olympics. Some like Keith Hamer have four or five.
How many actually on the road? Well I would guess about twenty. The most I've seen at any one time, at one of the car shows or club AGMs was 12 I think.
Derek would be the best person to provide facts and figures.
The lack of knowledge about the numbers is that Rochdale Motor Panels provided each bodyshell or kit of parts with a factory order number, usually a four figure one. Once the owner had built the car, we simply attached an aluminium chassis plate to the bodyshell with what ever chassi number he chose to make up ie ABC123. All the vehicle registration people wanted was a number of some sort.
An even bigger mystery was the production of the GT bodyshell. The bodyshells were a direct replacement for the rotting steel bodyshell on the owner's old Ford. GT bodyshells were produced like plastic Tupperware, and in their thousands. The bodyshell was a great moneymaker for Messrs Smith and Butterworth and they were extremely cagey about telling the tax man too much on just how many bodyshells they made and sold. Manufacturing bodyshells in the early days of GRP was difficult, filthy and dangerous work and the young pair clearly felt they were entitled to their just rewards for all their efforts. |
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calex_fr Registered User
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Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 8:57 am Post subject: |
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Well, I think it's possible to have some pics of this survival here, no ? _________________ Alexandre Contat
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calex_fr Registered User
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Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 12:24 pm Post subject: |
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Do you know where is TBF966 ?
_________________ Alexandre Contat
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Paul Narramore Registered User
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Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 3:00 pm Post subject: |
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Alexandre
Years ago I started a register of all known Olympics and this was later taken over by Derek Bentley, the club's Olympic Registrar. So the answer to your question is 'yes'.
If you really want an answer, you'll need to contact him. |
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calex_fr Registered User
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Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 3:10 pm Post subject: |
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Paul Narramore wrote: |
Alexandre
Years ago I started a register of all known Olympics and this was later taken over by Derek Bentley, the club's Olympic Registrar. So the answer to your question is 'yes'.
If you really want an answer, you'll need to contact him. |
- Derek Bentley : no Email
- http://www.rochdale-owners-club.co.uk/owners.htm updated ?
- Does it realy impossible to take this page or this forum updated ?
It will be interesting for everybody here to have a picture, a brief history and descriptive, owner name and Email.
Isn't an owners club ?
Where are they ? _________________ Alexandre Contat
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Rodsmith Registered User
Joined: 16 Jun 2008 Posts: 187 Location: Pembrokeshire, West Wales
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Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 4:14 pm Post subject: |
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Alex, we have in the UK a law, The Data Protection Act. This is a very difficult law to interpret, but it may be this law that prevents details of the cars and their owners being put onto this site. I should think that each owner must give permission for that to happen. There is a section on this website-Owners Cars- asking for details of cars. I suppose that this would be an album if enough owners sent in their details. I may be wrong and this law may not prevent the club listing all the details that they hold.''
Rod _________________ " Stay lucky " |
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