Advertisements for Ford Sunliner
Entry:
2 advertisements for the Ford Sunliner, one from 1955 and one from 1960.
Scale drawing of the toy car
Entry:
A scan of a 1:1 scale drawing of the object, showing plan view and side elevations.
Homes and Gardens September 1963
Entry:
A copy of Homes and Gardens magazine dated September 1963.
Features advertisement for Austin A40 and feature on "car of the month", a Volvo 122B:
Object Speed: A response to Knowledge Conversation
Entry:
This is in response to Simon’s eloquently argued call for a momentary silence.
Licking
Your name:
Katy & Peter Merrington (Brother and Sister)
Entry:
We licked the red paint on the 'Object Retrieval' bus to see if it would poison us. We now await the results.
Pigment analysis with Ruth Siddall, Geo-Archeologist (UCL)
Entry:
Ruth Siddall is a Geo-Archeologist who has been working at UCL for the past 20 years. Ruth came on board the bus to do a pigment analysis of the red and white paint on the toy car.
The object as symbol
Your name:
Clare Gibson
Entry:
A symbolic interpretation of the toy motor car and its significance suggests that the object denotes the metaphorical vehicle in which its owner might have wished to undertake life's journey, and t
Sound Retrieval
Your name:
Patricia Delgado
Entry:
One of the team members of Object Retrieval explains the mission of the project to a participant.
Sound of the Ford V8 engine
Your name:
Patricia Delgado
Entry:
The Ford Galaxie Sunliner (manufactured from 1960-64) was fitted with a Ford V8 engine. The following link is a Youtube clip of the sound of the V8 engine.
Mutter Museum exhibition
Your name:
Natasha McEnroe
Entry:
The Mutter Museum has an exhibition on lead poisoning at the moment:
http://www.collphyphil.org/mutter.asp
