Who Am I? The ATU History game
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Re: Who Am I? The ATU History game
eddie on Wed Feb 22, 2012 7:12 pm
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Wild guess: Mr Rolls and Mr Royce?
Wild guess: Mr Rolls and Mr Royce?
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Re: Who Am I? The ATU History game
felix on Wed Feb 22, 2012 7:22 pm
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No sir! (I don't know who is in the passenger seat ... )
No sir! (I don't know who is in the passenger seat ... )
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Re: Who Am I? The ATU History game
eddie on Wed Feb 22, 2012 7:27 pm
Could we have a clue, please? I've considered everyone from Jeremy Thorpe to Adolf Hitler.
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Re: Who Am I? The ATU History game
felix on Wed Feb 22, 2012 10:41 pm
The driver became an unfeasibly generous philanthropist.
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Re: Who Am I? The ATU History game
eddie on Thu Feb 23, 2012 2:13 am
Another wild guess: Mr Rockerfeller?
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Re: Who Am I? The ATU History game
felix on Thu Feb 23, 2012 11:06 am
Nope. He was a very British 20th century industrialist. His philanthropic gifts are still very much with us.
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Re: Who Am I? The ATU History game
felix on Thu Feb 23, 2012 12:18 pm
Nope. The 'bullnose' radiator of the car is a further clue.
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Re: Who Am I? The ATU History game
felix on Thu Feb 23, 2012 12:38 pm
No, not our Rich! (I recall his first Virgin record shop, above a shoe shop in Oxford Street, near Tottenham Court Road. A hangout for the cool and the hip of the day, with racks of bootlegs and - do I remember right? - beanbag cushions and headphones for a groovy shopping ... or not ... experience.)
The chap in the pic had close links with Oxford.
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Re: Who Am I? The ATU History game
pinhedz on Thu Feb 23, 2012 2:33 pm
felix wrote:The chap in the pic had close links with Oxford.
So, a yank doesn't stand a chance in this contest.
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Re: Who Am I? The ATU History game
felix on Thu Feb 23, 2012 2:58 pm
Depends 
Young Bobby sang about Oxford Town, but it ain't that one.
The car and its bullnose radiator are a strong clue.
The following isn't a clue, but a Punch cartoon from 1936 I just found, captioned "The horn of plenty. Say when!" celebrating an enormous gift, from the chap in the bullnose-radiatored car, to Oxford University for medical research:
It's been calculated that he gave away over £11 billion at 2012 rates.
Young Bobby sang about Oxford Town, but it ain't that one. The car and its bullnose radiator are a strong clue.
The following isn't a clue, but a Punch cartoon from 1936 I just found, captioned "The horn of plenty. Say when!" celebrating an enormous gift, from the chap in the bullnose-radiatored car, to Oxford University for medical research:
It's been calculated that he gave away over £11 billion at 2012 rates.
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Re: Who Am I? The ATU History game
pinhedz on Thu Feb 23, 2012 4:26 pm
Eventually the sheer weight of the clues tips the scale--William Morris (later Lord Nuffield), in a Bullnose Morris, 1913, by kind permission of the Warden and Fellows of Nuffield College, Oxford. 
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Re: Who Am I? The ATU History game
felix on Thu Feb 23, 2012 4:30 pm
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- you are, of course, correct!
(The 'bullnose' Morris Oxford would have given it away to any vintage British car buff, but I suppose they are rather thin on the ground hereabouts
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- you are, of course, correct! (The 'bullnose' Morris Oxford would have given it away to any vintage British car buff, but I suppose they are rather thin on the ground hereabouts
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Re: Who Am I? The ATU History game
pinhedz on Sat Feb 25, 2012 6:40 pm
I don't know if this one is hard or not:
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