Day: April 10, 2016

Dragon Facts Images

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Oldfield, Barney in Golden-Submarine
Dragon Facts
Image by clamshack
Notes from John Glenn Printz: ") On 4 Oct. 1946 Berner "Barney" Eli Oldfield (1877-1946) was found dead in his bed, by his wife Bessie, at their home in Beverly Hills, CA. Barney Oldfield was a very famous and early American "Speed King" in his racing heyday, 1902 to 1918, and even thereafter. Oldfield was enlisted by Henry Ford (1863-1947) to pilot his new "999" race car at Grosse Point, MI on 2 Oct. 1902. Oldfield had been a mid-western bicycle racer before that. Soon Oldfield quit the Henry Ford "999" and raced Alexander Winton’s "Bullets" and a bit later, the Louis P. Mooers’ Peerless "Green Dragons". During the period 1902-1907 Barney drove in only low mileage, sprint events or short dashes. Oldfield barnstormed across the entire U.S. in 1903-1904 and became nationally famous, but much of it was probably staged and fakeroo, however there was money to be made in such activity; as the automobile was still a great novelty, particularly in the remote rural areas. Barney was as much a showman or entertainer, as he was a driver. Oldfield entered no important or major automobile races until 1908; although he did win an AAA sponsored National Championship sprint title in 1905. Oldfield’s non-appearance in the 1904, 1905, and 1906 Vanderbilt Cup contests was conspicuously noticed.

In fact Barney’s first Vanderbilt Cup try was its ninth running, staged in 1914. His first major racing venture was the 24 April 1908 Briarcliff, NY road race where he drove a 30 horsepower Stearns. Briarcliff also witnessed the automobile racing debut of Ralph DePalma. Ralph had previously raced bicycles and motorbikes. DePalma here replaced the driver Arthur Campbell who had been injured in a practice accident. Ralph previously had been the riding mechanic for Campbell on the Briarcliff, Allen-Kingston entry. After the Briarcliff race Oldfield entered many major U. S. races. Barney’s best results were a 4th in the American Grand Prize (5 Oct. 1912) using a huge Fiat, and a 2nd in the Vanderbilt Cup (26 Feb. 1914) with a Mercer. Barney also made two starts at Indianapolis, in 1914 for Stutz, and 1916 using a 1914 Grand Prix type Delage, and placed 5th in both contests. For the 1914 "500" Oldfield had some relief from Gil Anderson (1880-1935) who was also on the Stutz team that year. Oldfield’s Stutz was the first American built car to cross the line in 1914. The French took the first four places, i.e. 1. Rene Thomas, 2. Arthur Duray, 3. Albert Guyot, and 4. Jules Goux, piloting their "high-tech" Delages and Peugeots.

Oldfield certainly knew how to keep his name before the public and in the press. On 3 March 1910 he set a new world land speed record, at Daytona Beach, FL, in a 200 horsepower "Blitzen Benz". Barney’s new mark was 131.267 mph. Later in the year (25 Oct. 1910), Oldfield ran match races with the then black heavyweight World Boxing Champion, Jack Johnson (1878-1946), who was a fancier of fast cars and fast women. The site chosen was Sheepshead Bay, then a dirt horse track, and Barney had no trouble thoroughly defeating the great boxer, who used a 40 horsepower Chalmers. For this stunt Oldfield was suspended by the AAA and Barney soon went off barnstorming again.

In 1917 Barney purchased the first complete car constructed by Harry A. Miller. It sported a fully enclosed body at first and was soon dubbed the "Golden Submarine" because of its shape and paint color. The car, in actual AAA competition, was not particularly successful and some began instead, calling it the "Golden Egg". In 1917 Oldfield and DePalma engaged in a series of match races at Milwaukee, Providence, St. Louis, Detroit, and Atlanta, which some contemporary observers thought might be partly staged, and I have to concur with their suspicions. In any case, it was DePalma’s V12 Packard vs. Oldfield’s Golden Submarine. By January 1918 the enclosed body on the Miller was cut off and the machine then just became another normal race car. After the 1918 season Oldfield retired from competitive driving, but retained possession of this 1917 Miller for two more years. In 1919 it was raced by Roscoe Sarles (1892-1922), and then later, in late 1919 and early 1920, by Waldo Stein (1889-1965). The Oldfield Miller was entered in the 1920 Indianapolis 500 with the idea of replacing its original 289 cubic inch motor with a new 179 cu. in. Miller, but the new Miller 4 was not yet ready for actual use, in fact, it never would be.

In late 1920 Barney sold the ex-Golden Sub to J. Alex Sloan, the IMCA impresario. Under the IMCA in 1921-1922, the car was raced by the supposed Frenchman, Leon Duray (1894-1956), who didn’t know a word of French. Duray was not French and his real name was George Stewart. Sloan, who invented the name "Leon Duray", evidently was hoping the public would confuse Stewart for a genuine French pilot named Arthur Duray (1882-1954), who was the 2nd place finisher at Indianapolis in 1914 in a three litre Peugeot. After the 1920 season Oldfield ceased to have any direct connection with the AAA, either as a driver or car owner, although he did drive the pace car at Indianapolis in both 1920 and 1922. Oldfield could claim, probably correctly, to have been the first professional racing driver, in the U.S."

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Dragon Facts
Image by BioDivLibrary
The reptiles of British India
London :Pub. for the Ray society by R. Hardwicke,1864.
biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4020751

Look closely, this Chinese Water Dragon, or Physignatus cocincinus, has a "3rd eye" biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4020751 #pod > C why: nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/ReptilesAmphibians/Facts/FactS…

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