The mystery machine
“We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”
- HG Wells
BCer Emiline is perplexed:
This device has been tickling our imagination.
What is it? Why is it there? And how long has it been there? Is it a tarmac laying device used by a local resident of Braxfield Road who since has retired? Is it the purchase of a man in mid-life crisis whose wife can't stand his compulsive eBay clicking, therefore moving the device to Braxfield Road in the middle of the night?
Please, Brockley Central, tell us the truth, the whole truth behind this strange device.
If it's your machine or you know its story, please help her.
20 comments:
Is it just me or is does it look like some sort of grass-hopper with rusty antennae?
Is it the new Volvo?
It's clearly the new Damien Hirst! The Physical Impossibility of Life in the Body of Something Rusting
It's the "Lou Baker Bus For London" the two wheel configuration will allow it to be designated as a bike therefore saving Road Excise Duty, an obvious modification that the Public Sector drones of TfL would never have thought of.
I could be wrong but that looks like a "trailer", this is a device which attaches to the rear of another vehicle to enable an increased load hauling capacity.
I could be wrong but unless that bush is actually camouflage netting over the lockup garages, that ain't Braxfield Road
about 18 months (or so) ago it was parked opposite my house on Cranfield Road
Thanks United States of the Obvious, glad I wasn't the only person thinking that...
Sorry obvious but you can tow lots of stuff behind a car or van...
The outlet at the back and steel construction make me think it's a thingy that dispenses hot tar. The box at the other end may be for gas?
Yes, I should get out more
It does look a lot like a bitumen heating and dispension thingumajig.
Very good for blocked sinuses, I believe, standing next to an active one.
This example is of course dormant, maybe even extinct.
it is Braxfield road, on the quiet end by Howson road
It's the catering wagon that supplies MB and his chums with endless hob nobs, on their extended tea-break when they should actually be working.
Oh dear....
Don't tell me theres nothing wrong with bitumen Lou.
I mean....Nothing?
...And lovely quote Nick, I was hurrying so hadn't noticed it.
The eloi and the 'morlocks'? was it?
Couldn't happen around here.
Morlocks? I think a few of those are regulars at the Brockley Barge.
They no doubt escaped from the Malpas sewer excavation.
They feed on the airheaded Eloi.
Mind how you go now.
That's not nearly as interesting as the abandoned army lorry on Avignon Road.
It's been there nearly a year and no-one has yet dared to break in or spray rubbish tags all over it.
The army lorry was also parked outside our house on Cranfield Road for an age. The positive aspect of that was at least it prevented taxis parking there day and night
This photographer reckons the lorry is an old Russian army vehicle:
http://twitpic.com/2weg30
Has it moved I always thought both it and the army truck were permanently parked on Cranfield Rd alongside the church... I always assumed this thing was an old fashioned generator used in roadworks to power temporary traffic lights etc
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