Trivia: Hook Underpass (Ace of Spades)
 

The Hook Underpass was the first of its type in the country, there is
even a model of it in the Science Museum, but one innovative feature
it had when first built didn't catch on and was quickly removed.

Clue: it was noisy.

Trivia: Hook Underpass (Ace of Spades)
 

In article ,
Troy Steadman wrote:
The Hook Underpass was the first of its type in the country,
there is even a model of it in the Science Museum, but one
innovative feature it had when first built didn't catch on
and was quickly removed.

Clue: it was noisy.

White ceramic tiled walls?

It's amazing that this underpass was built c.1960 whilst just up
the road there were traffic lights at South Lane until the
mid-late 1970's: they were removed when the Malden underpass was
built. A work colleague of mine lived by that junction and kept
a crowbar by the front door ready for the next accident.

--
Tony Bryer

Trivia: Hook Underpass (Ace of Spades)
 

"Troy Steadman" wrote in message
om...
The Hook Underpass was the first of its type in the country, there is
even a model of it in the Science Museum, but one innovative feature
it had when first built didn't catch on and was quickly removed.

Clue: it was noisy.

The title of the thread makes me suspect that Lemmy was installed in the
tunnel somewhere, but that doesn't sound right.

Jonn

Trivia: Hook Underpass (Ace of Spades)
 

"Tony Bryer" wrote in message


Clue: it was noisy.

White ceramic tiled walls?

....as in "made a noise"...




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Trivia: Hook Underpass (Ace of Spades)
 

"Jonn Elledge" wrote in message


"Troy Steadman" wrote in message
om...
The Hook Underpass was the first of its type in the country, there is
even a model of it in the Science Museum, but one innovative feature
it had when first built didn't catch on and was quickly removed.

Clue: it was noisy.

The title of the thread makes me suspect that Lemmy was installed in the
tunnel somewhere, but that doesn't sound right.

Jonn

It isn't a tunnel, it's a roundabout on top of the A3 in a cutting,
nowadays a very ordinary intersection but in it's time quite something.
As was the "Ace of Spades" roadhouse on the old roundabout which had not
only a swimming pool but also an airfield.

The "innovative feature" was not Lemmy, but you are in the right order
of noisitude, two *very* noisy things one on either side of the road.


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Trivia: Hook Underpass (Ace of Spades)
 

In article
ilgate.org, Troy
Steadman wrote:
Clue: it was noisy.

White ceramic tiled walls?

....as in "made a noise"...

I was thinking in terms of a hard reflective surface bouncing the
sound out ...

--
Tony Bryer

Trivia: Hook Underpass (Ace of Spades)
 

Troy Steadman wrote:
"Jonn Elledge" wrote in message


"Troy Steadman" wrote in message
om...
The Hook Underpass was the first of its type in the country,
there is even a model of it in the Science Museum, but one
innovative feature it had when first built didn't catch on and
was quickly removed.

Clue: it was noisy.

The title of the thread makes me suspect that Lemmy was installed
in the tunnel somewhere, but that doesn't sound right.

Jonn

It isn't a tunnel, it's a roundabout on top of the A3 in a cutting,
nowadays a very ordinary intersection but in it's time quite
something. As was the "Ace of Spades" roadhouse on the old
roundabout which had not only a swimming pool but also an airfield.

The "innovative feature" was not Lemmy, but you are in the right
order of noisitude, two *very* noisy things one on either side of
the road.

An excessive speed warning hooter? Though I'm not sure there was any
speed limit on the Kingston By-Pass in those days.
--
Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)

Trivia: Hook Underpass (Ace of Spades)
 

In message , Richard J.
writes

Troy Steadman wrote:

The "innovative feature" was not Lemmy, but you are in the right
order of noisitude, two *very* noisy things one on either side of
the road.

An excessive speed warning hooter?

I wondered about fog detonators. :)

--
Paul Terry

Trivia: Hook Underpass (Ace of Spades)
 

Paul Terry wrote in message ...
In message , Richard J.
writes

Troy Steadman wrote:

The "innovative feature" was not Lemmy, but you are in the right
order of noisitude, two *very* noisy things one on either side of
the road.

An excessive speed warning hooter?

I wondered about fog detonators. :)

Now it is getting cold *you* are getting warm.

Trivia: Hook Underpass (Ace of Spades)
 

In message , Troy
Steadman writes

Paul Terry wrote in message
...

I wondered about fog detonators. :)

Now it is getting cold *you* are getting warm.

Ah! Was it road heating to stop ice formation?

--
Paul Terry