Car pipe holder
 

Looking for something similar to these ?
http://www.tractiontalkforum.com/pic...ictureid=60091


Cheers martin

I gave my late father a metal pipe holder one Father's day when I was about 7 or 8 years old. It sat proudly on the dashboard of his 1956 Ford Squire. Besides his pipe, or as my late Mother put it, his dummy, there was a fuse and that belonged to the radio. When he wanted to listen to the radio he put the fuse in and when he didn't he took it out as you had to pay I believe 5 shillings (25p) to have a radio licence which he did not have. If stopped by the police he could demonstrate that he did not have a working radio!

Hi Martin.
I think you will be lucky to find one try Junk shops e-bay etc.
Auto jumble stalls.
Or what about the possibility of having one made with a 3d printer ?

Yes ,don’t think it will be an easy find ,but that’s half the fun in chasing something unusual
Suppose it could be replicated in modern plastics by printer ,but something that is way above my limited tech skills to even k ow where to start

Maybe someone on here could help Martin
Type pipe holder in e-bay their is one on the first page if you scroll dow abit.https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Durable-W...QAAOSwjUxbLPrY

I belive Harold Wilson had a pipe holder ashtray and matchbox holder fitted to his Rover P5.

Why have something made? Half of the fun is in having a rummage around in shops looking in obscure corners for whatever you want. For example, I decided to complete a set of GWR Books for Boys of all ages published by the Great Western Railway in the 1920's and reprinted by Patrick Stephens Ltd i the 1970's. There are nine books in the series. The first one I bought was in 1972 and then I was given three original copies. Bit by bit I completed my collection until I bought the final volume in around 2004, some 32 years later!. I enjoyed mooching around various bookshops looking for the missing books in my collection. Recently, I wanted to acquire the three books by Mc. Dermott, Clinker and Nock about the history of the GWR published by Ian Allan. One set on Ebay was advertised at £460.00, I spent two or three evenings combing ebay and I managed to acquire all three volumes as harbacks and in very good condition complete wit dust covers from three different sources for a grand total of £28.00. The harder the quest the more fun that it is. I wanted a copy of "The Brunel's Father & Son" written by Brunel's Grandaughter, Celia Brunel Noble. This was published in 1938 and during the Blitz the publisher was bombed and the manuscript destroyed. I did a worldwide booksearch and I found just 5 copies in existence and I bought the best of the bunch for £38.00 which incidentally, is the most that I have ever paid for one individual book.

Further to my previous post, the problem with rummaging for a particular item is that something else catches your eye and you buy it. A book may only cost £5.00 to buy but you spend nearly £100.00 buying other books whilst you are looking for the first one!

Yes magpie syndrome is very often a problem
While searching for one item something else will come into view
But as you said the hunt is part of the fun and adds to the sense of achievement

My wife says that I am a hoarder, I say that I am a collector, I have useful bits and pieces around the home. For example, I have a Kindermann 35mm slide projector which I last used when I was giving lectures about Brunel's Royal Albert Bridge in 2009. Most people including my wife would have sold it, I have kept it in case it would come in useful one day. I have about 2,000 non fiction books mainly about Brunel and other Victorian Engineers. I have over 3,500 pieces of mecanno in boxes under my desk for when I manage to get some free time to use it I also have a couple of thousand electronic components for when I build experimental circuits on breadboards. I still use a fountain pen, the one that I use is a Parker Stainless steel pen given to me by my late father in 1990 and it still works faultlessly. My poor long suffering wife despairs with me especially as I have now acquired a secondhand LGB Garden Railway and I have threatened to dig up a flower bed to lay the ballast for the track. Also, I have told her that I want a non working Imperial Typewriter to restore over the winter! Yes, I do suffer from the Magpie Syndrome, the only problem being that |I could do with a bigger house!

Hi Thomas, Does not sound like hoarding at all.
I still have some of late fathers woodworking hand tools which do the job fine.
Many years ago I did a bit of printing using lead type.
I found out and visited a chap at Morpeth he had workshops full of vintage cars motorbikes etc and the machinery to make lead type. Fascinating place
Modern day things do not last we do not get tvs washing machines ect fixed now we just through them out.
I can happily spend hours at Beamish or similar places.

Sorry if going off topic in original thread.
We least a chemist shop in Alnwick from 60s to late 70s.
Built in 1825. We found all sorts of things including draws full of glass plates.
Large jar of arsenic marked one shilling and three pence an ounce.
Quick phone call drug squad came from Morpeth to remove Arsenic
I have a very old book of Alnwick which has photos of most of the businesses that used to be in Alnwick.
Including Alnwick Foundry which I think has a picture of a stationary engine on it not sure if engines were built in Alnwick Foundry/
Book is packed away as we are moving soon. I will get it out and check after we have moved and settled in. .

Back in the mid 1960s,our headmaster had been in the RAF during the war,and he had written a book called "The Hungry Clouds". The cellar had boxes of these books-much to the boys' amusement. I never did read it-it was probably very interesting.

Found this image would most towns manufacture engines ??
https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/File:Im1887-Alnwick.jpg

Had a rummage through the useful box today ,found a couple of lengths of copper pipe and some sheet brass
Nice little soldering project
Came up with this .....
http://www.tractiontalkforum.com/pic...ictureid=60205

Looks the part ?

And where do you strike the matches ?

Only on the box now Bob
Even these ones are now the new swan vesta safety type
Can’t strike them on a rough surface any more ,need the chemical agent on side of box to ignite them


Suspect the original had a striker plate ,perhaps under the bottom of ashtray section ?
Any way pipe is only for show so ignition isn’t really a major issue

Stubble?

Thought they banned stubble burning years ago ...
Best baler ever invented the swan vesta mark one !

Fitted http://www.tractiontalkforum.com/pic...ictureid=60210

Health and safety �� we have firelighters now that are the devil to light.

Bob, you use the lighter to light the matches. ;)

Matches are so much more useful than a lighter
Can’t puggle out an oil way with a lighter .
Lighter is no good for removing ear wax
Matches will make a screw grip in an oversized hole
Can’t build a half size model of HMSVictory with lighters
Or use them as gaming stakes playing cards ...