Landships II

Rectalgia · Legend

RE: Pidgeon wagon

kieffer · Commander in Chief

wonder how the guild, as I understood it was or may be still is German isn't it, is called in German. I go for Deutsche Chemiegraphikerkammer.
What's In luce Mundus exactly mean, in light is the world, or what?
Print roller: I can live with that. Paint rollers came later...please don't show me an early example from 1911 or something confuse

Rectalgia · Legend

I don't know why the Guild name is (apparently) translated - but I'm reasonably sure the author was not anticipating many sales to Germany - he was perhaps obliging his intended readership with a translation.�

"In luce mundus." Alas, my Latin is inadequate but I think you have the sense of it - perhaps "With light is the world," meaning the world is made with light - a sort of bow towards the Book of Genesis maybe - though that phrase does not appear there.

Whatever, the Swedes understand the application of the motto to the photographic trades, as this mural shows: http://www.alltidgot.com/wp-content/2009/01/tomthuset_3.jpg - from http://www.alltidgot.com/tomtehuset/� Maybe they have/had the same motto for their guild.

kieffer · Commander in Chief

I knew it, I knew it coming up with trolls aren't ye. BTW did you know that my kinsmen are the tallest on earth?

Rectalgia · Legend

But a biological law says that on tropics animals tend to have longer limbs than their counterparts living in areas with temperate/cold climate. Humans do not follow strictly biological rules, as they can shape their environment, but still, in Africa the tallest human race, with the longest limbs evolved.

This is the so-called Sudan type of the typical African Blacks. Today, this African race in its more or less pure form lives mainly in the southern Sudan and surrounding areas, while in central/western Africa they are heavily mixed with Congo type (the common typical Black Africans, like Bantu tribes).

In Ethiopia and Somalia, this race mixed intensively with a White one coming from southwestern Asia thousands of years ago.

In the case of some Sudanese tribes, males can have an average height of 1.9 m (6 ft, 4in) (!), while women of 1.8 m (6 ft) (!). These people have slim but strong bodies, and their heads are more elongated than in the case of the typical African Blacks. In case of a mixed race, these huge heights may not be generally attained by the population.

The most famous group and more racially preserved of the Sudanese race are the Nilotic tribes (they all originated on the Upper Nile area). The most famous are Maasai, Turkana, Samburu and Dinka, whose main occupation is animal husbandry.

Ancient (and modern) Nubians, the Black Pharaohs, were also of Sudanese race. When the French met this race of giants (in Chad tribes), they called them "the beautiful race". Their cousins, once called the Watusi, another�Nilotic group, were particularly famed as the tallest people though dietary changes (and actual tape measures) may have changed that in later times.

So, which of these are your kinsmen Kieffer?

-- Edited by Rectalgia on Tuesday 22nd of March 2011 05:47:23 PM

Tankcommander · Colonel

Front-wheel-drive three-wheeler with onboard carrier pigeon birdcage.jpg

Hello,

Not really a Cart or wagon, but I find it looks good. I'm not sure if it is WW1

DJ

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Rob · Legend

French Pigeon Bus photo on ebay;

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/WW1-Lorry-Mobile-Carrier-Pigeon-Loft-First-World-War-/260777938437?pt=UK_Collectables_Militaria_LE&hash=item3cb7938e05

Tankcommander · Colonel

Another pidgeon vehicle (sorry if posted already somewhere)

DJ

Neubronner mobile dovecote and darkroom (1909)

Rectalgia · Legend

A significant find DJ, indicating Neubronner's pigeon-borne cameras went into the field in 1909. There is some discussion earlier in this topic but there was some doubt that there might have been serious field trials. This neat scissors-jack wagon seems to indicate that his cameras were indeed progressed beyond the stage of being more than market-square amusements.

I guess the rapid development of the aeroplane in wartime use, including photo-reconnaissance, soon over-ran the possible military application, even if the pigeon camera field trials were successful. But maybe there was some use? Getting the birds around enemy positions so they could return by flying over them would have been a considerable difficulty. Getting them to "imprint" their mobile coop so they could return to it must have been another. Oh well, pigeon pie would have been a welcome change from field rations and braised rat.