{"id":4214,"date":"2017-07-03T12:33:05","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T12:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/?p=4214"},"modified":"2017-07-03T12:44:16","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T12:44:16","slug":"harding-consort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/07\/03\/harding-consort\/","title":{"rendered":"HARDING CONSORT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking through my 2011 sketch book I came across these drawings of a very interesting old Invalid Carriage.\u00a0\u00a0 The vehicle is a 148cc (one hundred and forty eight!!) HARDING CONSORT built between 1956-1966. \u00a0It had a Villiers Engine.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Only 12 examples were ever made<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/brizzlebornandbred\/23825035771\" target=\"_blank\">according to this blog I found online<\/a>. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Not many people will have seen a vehicle\u00a0like this, so I thought I would share it\u00a0as I think it might delight some of you\u00a0as much as it did me.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4217\" src=\"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Pencil-Drawing-William-Lonsdale-Harding-Consort3.jpg\" alt=\"Pencil Drawing William Lonsdale Harding Consort\" width=\"556\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Pencil-Drawing-William-Lonsdale-Harding-Consort3.jpg 556w, https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Pencil-Drawing-William-Lonsdale-Harding-Consort3-217x300.jpg 217w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 556px) 100vw, 556px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4215\" src=\"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Pencil-Drawing-William-Lonsdale-Harding-Consort1.jpg\" alt=\"Pencil Drawing William Lonsdale Harding Consort\" width=\"689\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Pencil-Drawing-William-Lonsdale-Harding-Consort1.jpg 689w, https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Pencil-Drawing-William-Lonsdale-Harding-Consort1-287x300.jpg 287w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 689px) 100vw, 689px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4216\" src=\"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Pencil-Drawing-William-Lonsdale-Harding-Consort2.jpg\" alt=\"Pencil Drawing William Lonsdale Harding Consort Driver\" width=\"589\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Pencil-Drawing-William-Lonsdale-Harding-Consort2.jpg 589w, https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Pencil-Drawing-William-Lonsdale-Harding-Consort2-230x300.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 589px) 100vw, 589px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4218\" src=\"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Pencil-Drawing-William-Lonsdale-Harding-Consort4.jpg\" alt=\"Pencil Drawing William Lonsdale Harding Consort\" width=\"653\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Pencil-Drawing-William-Lonsdale-Harding-Consort4.jpg 653w, https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Pencil-Drawing-William-Lonsdale-Harding-Consort4-255x300.jpg 255w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 653px) 100vw, 653px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Advert for a similar model that I found also.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4221\" src=\"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Advert.png\" alt=\"advert for Harding Consort\" width=\"301\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Advert.png 301w, https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Advert-262x300.png 262w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 301px) 100vw, 301px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking through my 2011 sketch book I came across these drawings of a very interesting old Invalid Carriage.\u00a0\u00a0 The vehicle is a 148cc (one hundred and forty eight!!) HARDING CONSORT built between 1956-1966. \u00a0It had a Villiers Engine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[126,95],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4214"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4214"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4225,"href":"https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4214\/revisions\/4225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}