Showing posts with label design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label design. Show all posts
QUAINTNESS OF THE RECENT PAST NO. 30
The legendary Ford Edsel, still believed to be the greatest failure in the history of car sales, but now looking completely brilliant. I'd love one:
QUAINTNESS OF THE RECENT PAST NO.27
The London Eye opened only in 2000 - really too recent to be the recent past - but those pods...
... always seemed so Dan Dare, so 1950s Futuristic - and then, initially c/o Retronaut, I found these wonderful French buses from, yes, 1955:
London Eye’s pods were designed by Leitner-Poma of America, an aerial lift manufacturer in Grand Junction, Colorado. But this is the American subsidiary of the French-based Poma, which in turn is owned by the unItalian-sounding Italian company Leitner Technologies. The 1955 buses were designed by Currus, France’s oldest coachbuilder, founded in Paris in 1805, using Citroen's “workhorse” U55 chassis.
... always seemed so Dan Dare, so 1950s Futuristic - and then, initially c/o Retronaut, I found these wonderful French buses from, yes, 1955:
London Eye’s pods were designed by Leitner-Poma of America, an aerial lift manufacturer in Grand Junction, Colorado. But this is the American subsidiary of the French-based Poma, which in turn is owned by the unItalian-sounding Italian company Leitner Technologies. The 1955 buses were designed by Currus, France’s oldest coachbuilder, founded in Paris in 1805, using Citroen's “workhorse” U55 chassis.
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