AndyP 3 Posted May 26, 2004 Does anyone have a glossy colour photograph of Anders Michanek in action they can scan (high quality) and email to me? Preferbly in a Reading race jacket, and the more recent the better - otherwise take whatever you have. I have black and white photos, but no colour. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dantodan 314 Posted June 3, 2004 Does anyone have a glossy colour photograph of Anders Michanek in action they can scan (high quality) and email to me? Preferbly in a Reading race jacket, and the more recent the better - otherwise take whatever you have. I have black and white photos, but no colour. Co-incidentally I want a black and white shot of Anders in Newcastle colours, Ha! B&W anyway! I did see a colour shot waist up of Anders in a Reading top by browsing but can't remember where. If I find it again I will e-mail it to you if you will tell me your address My history site is taking shape have a look at http://diamondsjubilee.tripod.com Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Steve Dixon Posted June 3, 2004 Nice site, dantodan.. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Trees 2,814 Posted June 3, 2004 My husband has a huge poster of Anders in action in Swedish colours (I think) on our bedroom wall of all places .............. no good to you I know but thought I would tell you .... lol Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest fatherqueever Posted June 4, 2004 dantodan, interesting and informative site . Just one point and it's not a critism, but JAP stands for John Alfred Prestwich the original owner and manufacturer of JAP engines. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TonyMac 720 Posted June 5, 2004 Thought it stood for JAMES ARTHUR Prestwich? Tony Mac Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SCB 0 Posted June 5, 2004 (edited) A quick search on the net suggesst it's almost certainly not James Arthur but John Alfred looks popular. Jackson Alpine looks even less likely. BTW, lose the site, it's something different and I spent quite a while reading through it. Edited June 5, 2004 by SCB Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dantodan 314 Posted June 5, 2004 dantodan, interesting and informative site . Just one point and it's not a critism, but JAP stands for John Alfred Prestwich the original owner and manufacturer of JAP engines. Amazed to say the least! it is Jackson Alpine Prestwich unless my memory has totally failed me!!!! Will check it out and big apologies if I am wrong, watch this space Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
norbold 7,114 Posted June 5, 2004 Fairly sure it's John Alfred myself.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dantodan 314 Posted June 5, 2004 Wonder where I got Jackson Alpine from? been calling them that for years Surely I didn't just dream it up? ah well maybe I did I know the founder was called (James) John Alfred Prestwich. Thought his company was co owned by Jackson and Alpine but maybe I am wrong. Anyone want to hold a seance to contact the old guy Prestwich and ask him?? Anyway the bikes were excellent with JAP engines Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dantodan 314 Posted June 5, 2004 BTW, lose the site, it's something different and I spent quite a while reading through it. Arghhhh! SCB you want me to "lose" the site!!!! I am gutted, or was that a trypo or even a typo he he! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SCB 0 Posted June 5, 2004 s's and v's. Little difference Make that "Love the site". But you knew that Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dantodan 314 Posted June 6, 2004 s's and v's. Little difference Make that "Love the site". But you knew that I have the JAP lowdown now thanks to Carrick Watson and Who's Who. so i have changed my reference to JAP. It is John Alfred Prestwich Heres a history lesson for anyone who aint got a life!!!! (1874-1952) John Alfred Prestwich British engineer Founder member of the Prestwich Manufacturing Company, established in 1895, Prestwich was an engineer of outstanding ability, who constructed some of the finest cinematographic apparatus of cinema's first decade. He is best remembered today, outside of film circles, for the 'JAP' motorcycle engine, so named from his initials. John Alfred Prestwich was born in Kensington, London, and was educated at the City and Guilds School and the City of London School. Aged sixteen, he started work with S.Z. de Ferranti, maker of electrical apparatus and scientific instruments. After two years he was articled to a firm of engineers and left aged twenty to start his own business, making electrical fittings and scientific instruments in a glasshouse in his father's garden. He was associated with the firm of W.H. Prestwich, London photographers; possibly W.H. was his father. In 1896 John Alfred Prestwich teamed up with William Friese Greene to patent and construct a projector with twin lenses (arranged vertically) to provide projection from one lens while the film was being pulled down ready for the other, one of many early film devices intended to ensure that there was always an image on the screen, thereby eliminating flicker. It was promoted in 1898 but as with all machines requiring specially-printed films, it had no influence on the development of cine technology; the solution to the flicker problem was resolved in other ways. In November 1897 Prestwich was selling the Moto-Photograph apparatus - which W.C. Hughes had previously sold as the Moto Bijou Living Picture camera, but which had been designed by one of the Prestwich family; probably John Alfred, since it shares the same mechanism as his Duplex machine produced with Friese Greene. It was awarded a silver medal at the Glasgow International Photographic Exhibition. Another member of the company was E.P. Prestwich, who seems to have undertaken most of the firm's limited motion picture production, including Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee procession (1897), views of the launch of the Albion (1898) on both 35 mm, and 60 mm for the Duplex machine; W.G. Grace's Jubilee Procession at Lord's Cricket ground in July 1898, and one of their few fiction films, The Artist's Model (1898). From 1897 the firm also sold three models of projector, with a superior fast-pulldown mechanism, and in 1898/1900 produced the 'Junior' amateur outfit for 17.5 mm film, also sold by Hughes as 'La Petite', and a reversing projector for showing films backwards for comic effect. Under J.A. Prestwich's guidance the firm rapidly expanded and was soon engaged in a wide range of engineering products, most notably connected with the motorcycle industry. For nearly two decades he invented, designed and manufactured cinematographic equipment including cameras, printers, mutoscopes, cutting and perforating machines, and projectors, including the Bioscope projectors for the Warwick Trading Company and Charles Urban. The firm later became known as J.A. Prestwich Industries Ltd, and was absorbed in 1964 by the Villiers Engineering Company. So mr JAP was really a big noise in the picture industry. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
