James Shaw III

1920 - 2003

young man

Vehicle development engineer, Church elder, Scoutmaster, HND Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, RAF Corporal

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Timeline 1920 to 2003

RAF corporal's shoulder badge

Canada, UK, France, Belgium & Holland

model standard vanguard van

Drawings, models and cars

iconic viking's head

A 33-year career as a vehicle, brake and project engineer

drawing of compression machine

Jim Shaw and Charles 'Harry' Laight's Compression Test Machine

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Gearboxes, Overdrive, V8 & Diesel engines, power braking, steel doors & plastic handles

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Town and Touring Overdrive - William Martin-Hurst

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Brakes and simulated mountains

Rover P6 steering wheel icon

Rex Marvin's story of the 'five-cylinder P6s', ideas looking for a car

Marathon Lake, Greece

A report of the test drive of Rover 3500 (P6B) TXC 730F to Athens and back in September 1967

Rover P8 steering wheel icons

Full Power Hydraulic Braking at last!

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Fuel Injection for North America, Cold Starting, Diesel and 'O'-series engines

old rotary potentiometer

Early radio, Hi-Fi and home computers

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Drawings, Posters, Covers, Forms, Graphics and Logos

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Jim Shaw's cartoons relating to the Nash Rambler 1953 model

blackboard with disc brake graphic

Part of a Special Lecture Course arranged by Coventry Technical College in 1965

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Elder and treasurer of St. Ninian's Presbyterian/United Reformed Church, Solihull

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When Events Choose Their Own Times