Friday 20 March 2009

What's this?



H/T DML

14 comments:

ooGcM taobmaetS said...

A smokestack for a ship.

...Or Willie Nelsons giant hash bong?

Lola said...

It looks like a giant boiler. Or possibly part of a submarine. The photo looks to be from about 1920 to 1930. It looks UK. A boiler for a giant steamship - the Queen Elizabeth or Quenn Mary say?

Please tell.

Anonymous said...

Looks like a portion of submarine hull or maybe a large pontoon.

The setting seem to be pre-WW2 European, probably UK.

Lola said...

Thinking about it - I think I've seen this before. Isn't it a funnel for Queen mary or Queen Elizabeth being rolled out?

Press Enemy #1 said...

A Coal fired ship's smokestack?

Anonymous said...

A boy racers car that wouldn't fit all the way into his garage.

Unknown said...

Id say it was a section of submarine and could quite easily have been taken at my home town of Barrow-in-Furness, thats if its in the UK?

WellyWanger said...

It's one of the Titanic's funnels

Kronos said...

Titanic smoke stack

Nelson said...

I agree with part of a submarine hull. The lower half looks like the sort of double-hull that you'd expect on a sub.

duke said...

I agree with the "Funnel/Smoke Stack" club....probably the Titanic...doesn't look like a boiler nor a sub...IMO

Cheers

missred said...

the other half of the guinness can

Bill O' Rites said...

It's WAY too big for a submarine hull based from the possible age of the photograph & the internals look like those in Titanic's funnels:

http://www.titanic-titanic.com/titanic_funnels.shtml

Unknown said...

Nah, you're all wrong, that's my old boy waking up having seen the Belgian totty above!