Well it is a V twin !

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A Victorian Guzzi boat!!

 

Steam Yacht Gondola,Coniston Water, the Lake District

 

Left Cylinder

 

Right Cylinder

 

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It only takes six of these bags gets it around the Lake !!

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You catch the Gondola at the Bluebird Cafe which has this memorial outside

 

which was the temporary headstone in Coniston cemetery until it was replaced by this one.

 

The restored Bluebird may be returning to Coniston next Spring as permission has been granted for a 100mph run before it goes on display, so it's worth looking out for this as it may be the only time it will run !!!

The replica in the Lakeland motor museum that was built for the film "Across The Lake" (starring Anthony Hopkins) is pretty impressive so the real thing actually running will be worth seeing!!!

 

[The Monkey]

Very cool! I would be on that gondola like a fat kid on a smartie! I got married on a triple expansion steam ship (retired). Still stop to look at any display locomotive be it Cedar, Vancouver Island or Kingman, Arizona. Steam has class, maybe it is all the soft metals but it definitely grabs ya! Hopkins gets a lot of good gigs re performance gear, he must be a motorhead too.

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A bit more about the

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