Negative Feedback?! Fixing broken Ebay purchases
Negative Feedback?! Fixing broken Ebay purchases. Recently we had an enquiry from an ebay user who had successfully bid on these doors without actually seeing them. Whilst negative feedback warns others what our customer needed to do was find a way of fixing the broken purchase seemlessly. They were located in a private house in Hampstead which was being refurbished and due to be stripped out. The listing was short and simply stated: Beautiful internal doors in silver chrome look frame with coloured glass panels and with one additional comment: Odd mark on frame as shown in...
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Details of the stained glass Radley’s Ghost panel. The nature of stained glass means that different lighting conditions constantly change it’s character and reveal the details and textures in the glass, bringing it to life and creating a unique atmosphere wherever it is placed. Talk to us about installing one of our large scale stained glass panels. There are many options to install and display including freestanding as well as traditional aperture installation (subject to...
Read MoreRadley’s Ghost fine art stained glass panel
2013 marks the centenary of James Radley’s victory in the Alpine Trial with his 40/50 Ghost – to celebrate this I have designed and built a twenty square foot leaded glass panel of his motorcar. This is the second large scale automotive project I have undertaken; the first featured a 1902 Panhard et Levassor and in the last year this has been well travelled having been exhibited at the headquarters of the Veteran Car Club, Cranfield’s History of Motorsport Conference and most recently at the Grand Hotel in Brighton for the Veteran Car Club’s London to Brighton Run dinner. Click here...
Read MoreJames Radley the man behind the Ghost
James Radley was the son of a wealthy colliery owner in Lancashire and it is believed he was born at Dunnow Hall at Slaidburn in 1884. Radley was a close friend of Charles Rolls another aviator and who had been the first to complete a double-crossing of the English Channel James Radley and business partner William Rhodes-Moorhouse, formed a company called the Portholme Aerodrome Limited in 1911 to design and build aircraft at St Johns Street, Huntingdon. The first locally designed and built aircraft flew from Portholme on 27 July 1911. A year later they were to sell the business to Handley...
Read MoreThe Ghost’s sporting history
James Radley had privately entered a Silver Ghost for the 1912 Austrian Alpenfahrt however on the first day of the seven day Trial they were hampered by its three-speed gearbox and failed to negotiate a very steep sharp hairpin bend on the ascent of the Katschberg. Requiring to use reverse gear and needing help from its three passengers to restart this incurred so many penalty points that the crew retired. He vowed to return with a modified Silver Ghost for the 1913 event and in fact he was joined by three other cars to form a factory team specially prepared for the event with four-speed...
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