Comments on: Ted Vanner, Model Steamboat Pioneer https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/01/10/ted-vanner-model-steamboat-pioneer/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Tue, 02 Jan 2024 02:56:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Kent Lund https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/01/10/ted-vanner-model-steamboat-pioneer/#comment-1535788 Tue, 02 Jan 2024 02:56:59 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=153230#comment-1535788 30 years ago I discovered the steam and tether
Boat club in the UK. I have tracked down 12
As raced boats of US origin. 1924 to 1947.
Flash steam and gasoline all home built
Motors. 6 16 mm movies and countless
Stills of the racers. If anyone would like to see pictures of
The boats drop me a line.

]]> By: Heinrich Cornelissen https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/01/10/ted-vanner-model-steamboat-pioneer/#comment-1298643 Tue, 16 Jul 2019 11:47:04 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=153230#comment-1298643 I have recently acquired a 1935 Bowman Swallow Steamboat which has piqued my curiosity in all things related to these wonderful craft. While I was doing research on the Victoria Model Boat Club, I stumbled across a number of articles written by The Gentle Author on this subject. Your articles are simply remarkable. As an English teacher, I can only marvel at your uncanny ability of capturing an atmosphere – which most of us can only dream about – so perfectly. Your piety in describing these gentlemen of yesteryear is to be admired and is indicative of a sensitive soul.

]]> By: Neil Mclaren https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/01/10/ted-vanner-model-steamboat-pioneer/#comment-1173729 Fri, 13 Oct 2017 07:09:30 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=153230#comment-1173729 Hello, what a cracking story and article! absolutely inspiring and there was me thinking I was doing something new. If it wasnt for Englishmen in sheds? the world would still be in the stone age.
Neil Mclaren.

]]> By: Donald Reynolds https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/01/10/ted-vanner-model-steamboat-pioneer/#comment-1130348 Mon, 16 Jan 2017 17:38:39 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=153230#comment-1130348 The boat above ALL ALONE is still running regulary at Victoria park and other venues in the southern area she is steam driven and runs well.

]]> By: MITCH BARNES https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/01/10/ted-vanner-model-steamboat-pioneer/#comment-1130082 Sun, 15 Jan 2017 10:51:15 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=153230#comment-1130082 What a fascinating article! The Victoria Model Boat Club is still strong – their level of skill in model building is something to admire.

Speaking generally it is good to see that the concept of making things with one’s hands rather than poking screens and keyboards with them, is still alive and kicking.

Being a member of any club, no matter what the interest, is a great way of socialising and keeping your mind active, throughout one’s life and especially important in retirement. After a week of stress at work, meeting people of this calibre at the weekend never fails to rebuild my faith in human nature.

The model engineering society I belong to has given me huge encouragement in my ambitions, enabled me to boost my career with new skills and brings out the best in all its members. This is common among all the clubs and societies I have encountered over the years: long may they all continue.

]]> By: Martin Palmer https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/01/10/ted-vanner-model-steamboat-pioneer/#comment-1128933 Tue, 10 Jan 2017 22:29:27 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=153230#comment-1128933 I know the Victoria Park Boating Lake well. It was a fairly frequent haunt of mine as a kid. I recall someone bringing a model boat powered by what I was told was a pulse jet: same power unit that the V1’s used. It crossed the pond in seconds and made an awful racket. Probably illegal now!

]]> By: Terry Penton https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/01/10/ted-vanner-model-steamboat-pioneer/#comment-1128845 Tue, 10 Jan 2017 14:59:09 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=153230#comment-1128845 I still have vivid memories of being taken over Vicky park by my elder brother in the 60’s and watching events & competitions on Sunday mornings.The fuel they used had a very distinct smell.wonderful times

]]> By: Eddie Johnson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/01/10/ted-vanner-model-steamboat-pioneer/#comment-1128779 Tue, 10 Jan 2017 09:36:12 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=153230#comment-1128779 Lovely photos, my Mum took me over there regularly before the war, she once found a toy submarine under a park bench & it became a treasured possession, but I used to look in wonder at the boats going back & forth across the lake and was curious to know who these men in their big waders were…now I know.

]]> By: Michelle Ward https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/01/10/ted-vanner-model-steamboat-pioneer/#comment-1128755 Tue, 10 Jan 2017 06:24:19 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=153230#comment-1128755 What a wonderful history to read about Ted and Daisy and these clubs. Love hearing “still in working order”. Thanks for the visit down memory lane. Spectacular photos. Thanks Mr. Westcott.

]]> By: Caroline Bottomley https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/01/10/ted-vanner-model-steamboat-pioneer/#comment-1128752 Tue, 10 Jan 2017 06:16:43 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=153230#comment-1128752 What a lovely world. My Dad was a model boat enthusiast as a boy, I expect it was very common. Not my cup of tea, but how great to see the shared enthusiasm and spirit of endeavour and the social strength of it.

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