Lord Rosse's telescope at Birr Castle, Ireland Finish:20-pack we're a fair old rickety

we're a fair old rickety rackety crew

29th June 1963

1937 Mercedes-Benz W125 Grand Prix car

A man driving an 8hp De Dion Bouton

Chauffeurs are standing by the cars

Lord Rosse's telescope at Birr Castle, Ireland Finish:20-pack we're a fair old ricketyUnused illustration for the paper 'On the construction of specula of six feet aperture; and a selection from the observations of nebulae made with them', by William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, volume 151 (1861) pp. 681 746. Study of the crane carrying the eastern counterpoise of the great telescope, similar to that used to produce figure 9, plate 24, but angled slightly differently. The image shows the