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Right, a local seen to be pointing.  The St. Andrews University Working Boat Yacht project led by local gentry in the hope of preserving an upper class lifestyle, was overrun by pirates from the fishing community, a valued part of operating crews, the fishing culture from which the donor boat came, a vital part of the Trust's work.  Uniforms copy Medway Thames Barge attire loosely based on the Steptoe television program and the significance, one of earning a living in the lower society, appeals to Fife fisherfolk, a nautical community involved in The Great Tea Race of 1866, and donating estate sale artifacts to a number of store rooms owned by the trust.  >>>Photo: 'Fife Today'.

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 Left, another ... East Neuk ... harbor local seen to be pointing with the same finger positioning.  This behavior probably has some local cultural significance but these are closed coastal communities and don't respond well to outsiders, Shakespeare's quote that 'he who sups with the Devil should use a long spoon', has a hidden meaning that few choose to pursue.  <<<Photo KA

Right, 'touching of the forelock', an old, industrial tradition performed to honor lower middle class, employers and lost in Britain after WW2 as resembling the 'Heil Hitler' raised arm salute, these being the trust's fishing industry skippers not the St. Andrew's University 1st and 2nd Yacht's Officers, the university crew, role play but are Working Boat Sailing Yacht enthusiasts, not fishing village teuchters.  Photo ITN News Group>>>

Left, the lower middle class are really a distinguished form of the upper peasantry and the qualifier is location of residence and school attended.  Audio systems of the lower middle are a part of the larger population of the group, compared to upper middle, they follow popular brands that lend respect from other buyers ;  used to buy old Rogers tube amplifiers never heard at all, too busy earning a crust and just a showpiece, Mission Cyrus, Rega and Technics that became a popular peasant used buy.

Right, Tyrian (royal) purple produced from secretions of three species of sea snail, each making a different color:  Hexaplex trunculus (bluish purple), Bolinus brandaris (reddish purple), and Stramonita haemastoma (red), exposed to sunlight transformed to lower-middle-class blue, some souls might rise from the upper peasantry, in receiving light /knowledge, giving ability to handle the legendary Excalibur, a name given King Arthur's sword, a 'replicar' marque, driven by deserving owners.  Below, Earlshall takes its name from the hunting lodge of 'The Erlishall' owned by the Earls of Fife, relatives of King Robert de Bruce. Photos pglfk

Nearest left, Dr. Robert Prescott of St Andrews University below oversaw careful work upon a donor fish scow becoming a Working Boat Yacht in keeping with Hew Lorimer's lead, a descendant of Robert Lorimer of Earlshall Castle above, later known as Scotland's greatest architect.  John McAslan CBE, RIBA, FRIAS, FRSA, FRICS, FICE, RSA, Hon. FAIA, FRSE (born 16 February 1954) is a British architect. Photos below Tom Cunliffe. 

Above, Dr. Robert Prescott in his local pub beside cups decorated with his fish scow Working Boat Yacht and on a red box right, a model of the yacht.  He'd lived just a short walking distance away, spent days in the nearby trust buildings or at the University of St Andrews, among others and a book was written by A.D.R. McAslan, his friend, and 2nd Yacht's Officer at St.Andrews University >> of the W.B. sailing yacht and her life as a fish scow, useful to him as a Tour Guide also resident nearby, a very nice yachting lifestyle.  Below at sea, Prescott didn't have sea legs and had to hang onto something but was very accomplished in the television programs made by Tom Cunliffe far left below.

 

 Above right, Robert standing and the crew all sitting, he didn't have a Hi-Fi system but as an academic gave university lectures, talking at length and had recorded somewhere, many audio cassettes of himself ... singing classical Sea Shanties in a Cambridge University accent and with no musical accompaniment, which might have been better, if he'd musicians capable of it.  Above center 1st Yacht's Officer below with 2nd Yacht's Officer, a fishing industry skipper (above right) and deckhand (above left), a token presence for the camera crew.  A book by Mike Smyle >> is on Working Boat Yachts today, rather than fishing boats but their former roles became a part of a preservation culture.

Right, in the sense that the politician, Baroness Davidson of Lundin Links, PC is nobility, Hutchie right is too, senior Tories taking umbrage at any hint they aren't, but this manor house wasn't passed along, whether haunted or of an outdated lifestyle, the media talks about location and size of property belonging to true nobles or gentry and upper middle class, obviously have more expensive Audio systems in the large accommodation, a lower class fills with something less distinguished, but Scottish nobility you know, tartan trews wearers>> used modest Rank-Wharfedale speakers.  Photos R.O. Hutchison's space>>>

Left, someone's Order of Malta badge lies on a table in the lower right-hand corner, and in the company of nobility.  Hutchie (above) had been thought surrounded by a supernatural presence, these large rooms suited to Grand Pianos and Audio systems capable of reproducing as close as possible to an original sound, the intensity of a piano note many lifelong Hi-Fi devotees have never heard.  The aristocracy spoke about 'tube bloom' that certainly had been attainable with  EMI  loudspeakers and apparently the QUAD ESL-57.

>>when tricked out, these Rank-Wharfedale speakers of the Scottish aristocracy and middle-class, are awesome but many today are well-worn and there's a crush on spare parts.  They sell very quickly used, a firm favorite but only meant for very large rooms, fastened high on walls with a strong metal bracket and powered by Japanese amplifiers that in 1970s were only an option for a few lucky buyers.  They look stunning and the Dovedale here, sounds stunning provided the amplifier is of similar vintage and compatibility.  The Linton is better known and others:  Denton, Chevin but they suffer worn out tweeters usually suited to analog sources, that digital destroys.

Left, Gold Star, and Universum (did a fake copy of the 120 W.R.M.S. p.c. AKAI AM 2950) and were a 45 watt RMS per channel wide-band, really, a superbly finished fake, in the way some counterfeited Swiss watches have a wonderful, Russian Automatic movement dismissed as trash by watchmakers as much heavier, three times more labor-intensive and the fake amplifiers having no Integrated Circuits, cobbled something together to suffice.

>>so the AM2950 has D.F.50 and Distortion is 0.06% THD and S/N Ratio is 80db MM phono and 100dB line but it suffers from the poor quality semiconductors of the SONY V-FET days and so the faked versions are probably as good if not as long-lived but were stunning in what they had been and are worth saving, although distortion is the same at 0.06%, power is only 45 watts into 8 ohms, D.F. 30 so 1960s loudspeakers and F.R. 10Hz-35KHz, definitely  EMI  319 speaker suitable.  50dB MM Phono and 70dB Line.  Weight is 12.5Kg against 17.8Kg but with power to weight ratio in its favor.   Below, Thames Barge Match Racing, Robert Prescott a teenage...

 ...deckhand on one during the 1950s, never shared the fact around, during the late 1970s hoarding local shipping artifacts then in 1984 with academics Professor TC Smout, currently Scotland’s Historiographer Royal, and Dr C.J. Martin, established the Scottish Institute...

...of Maritime Studies (SIMS), ­conserving and preserving heritage bordering the ocean and its waterborne transport of commercial interest.  >>So Prescott was largely connected with St. Andrews University and the contract to advise Britain's Government about the Protection of Wrecks...

...Act of 1973, when the idea of preserving commercial sailing craft was popular, Golden Vanity, a classic wooden gaff cutter and Mumble Bee class Brixham...

...Sailing Trawler being one of the first in the lower society preservation efforts and so of particular interest to St. Andrews University.  Scrapped sailing craft had been eyed by independent school boys as potential Working Boat Yachts, Robert an Old Boy of London's Latymer Upper School was no exception and the notion that preservation of two prominent Scotch fishing craft had come about from grass roots level, (instead of being from nearby aristocrat Hew Lorimer's lead) seems to have been fashioned for the times, the lower society credited with equal status and interests, the 1970s feeling very different from the 1980s, Britain joined Europe in 1973, and lost many railroad branch lines thereafter, global influence diminished and the tourist led W.B. yacht resembled preserved steam traction on railroads run by volunteers.  Dr. Prescott briefly drove a...

<<... stock wheeled, cream color Morgan Plus 8 and might have kept the 4-cylinder here bearing the original 1970s dashboard that with its Rover Buick V8 acquired the dial cluster of that larger and much less fuel efficient engine, but quite common cars in the East Neuk, Lundin Links and upmarket St. Andrews, garaged most of the year to emerge for top down summer driving, Prescott was all about frugality and his next car was a 3-dr Mk.1...

...Suzuki Vitara JLX SE>> from the 1980s, so rare today that the 1991 vintage is the oldest remaining road-going example, one of only two and ten lying off road.  Underside rust is the killer, expensive welding needed upon MOT Failure, but Prescott named the REAPER W.B. yacht after W. Wordsworth's Solitary Reaper poem he'd been fond of reciting.  Click on images for full views.

<<Ford Granada Ghia Mk.II appeared as an Executive Car in 1979 and is featured in a Fisherman's graveyard in Anstruther, among tombstones adorned with Motor Fishing Vessels dear to the deceased.  Note the dashboard's generous helpings of luxury valued on these treacherous country roads where we can't let our guard down.  Below, John Hutcheson Smith...

...wearing a polka dot cravat, a man with good practical knowledge of paint and painting, in the early days of S&R did much commercial traveling, he'd liked getting around, and during holidays visited as far north as Spitzbergen, ranging down through Europe, the Mediterranean and much of Africa, a lover of music, he'd played the organ, a regular attender at Orchestral concerts. His home was in Bearsden an Elder of the Tron Free Church in Glasgow where A.D.R. McAslan, 2nd Yacht's Officer, had followed in his footsteps as company 4th S&R Director.

>>A.D. Rodger McAslan SMITH & RODGER Chairman and well known local antique dealer, wearing the lucky polka dot cravat, Below Ian McAslan M.D. has a classic dress tie, not symbolic.

 

>>Aristocrats had steam auxiliary yachts by the time John Hutcheson Smith of the lower middle class toured Europe and by hot air balloon over Africa, the picture above hearkening back to a time of railroads and ships, not that many in the United States know Edinburgh's bridge but the World's Fair Clock located in New York's Waldorf Astoria meant Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, Herbert Hoover and Elizabeth Taylor all saw its form embossed on the 1893 timepiece as then Queen Victoria of Britain's greatest contribution.  There was an old claim that the bridge was so big that by the time painters had finished it, they'd to start all over again and in effect never stopped painting the bridge. Photo:  Lindsay Estates>>

 

 27th Earl of Crawford, 10th Earl of Bacarres.

<<British Empire Capt. Edmund Allenby and below, Capt. Douglas Haig (7th Hussars) who'd entered Staff College at the same time, beginning a rivalry between the two that ran until the First World War.^[5]  Allenby the more popular with fellow officers, was made Master of the Draghounds in preference to Haig, better of the two riders; Allenby developed a passion for polo^,[5], their contemporary James Edmonds later claimed Staff College thought Allenby dull and stupid but had been swayed by a speech he'd given to the Farmers' Dinner, in fact written for him by Edmonds and another,^[8] the dinner very satisfying.

Capt.s Haig and Allenby met up during 1890, a year later Viscount Melgund becoming 4th Earl of Minto, in Afghanistan during 1879 when the 'zulu' Class of fishing boat later discarded by Robert Prescott below as a St. Andrews W.B. yacht in Anstruther, was named after an imperial battle, often wrecked, the Fifie was stronger, two yachts initially planned and out of budget, the fishing community endured a Haig - Allenby style rivalry against university yachtsmen.

<<Robert Prescott born in Gillingham, Britain, a town with strong maritime and military connections, a nearby Historic Dockyard in Chatham and Royal Engineers barracks based in the town.  Bravery of Empire soldier engineers from 1066 to the present day is covered by the Royal Engineers Museum, the name Gillingham recorded in the Domesday book of 1086 thought to be named after a warlord, Gyllingas—from the old English gyllan, meaning "to shout", a notable man of Kent history who'd led his warriors into battle screaming and shouting, some controversy over the Spartan war cry, the US Army who typically yell “Hooah!”, and the Marines with a similar approach.

 >>A guest talks to the English actor Michael Hordern, edu. Windlesham House School on the South Downs, Pulborough, West Sussex.  (British Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden's home being Windlestone Hall.)  The brightly colored china cup for Indian, black tea bottom right hand corner better retains its flavor but gets cold quickly.  Photo OMNIBUS>>>

>>Professor TC Smout, currently Scotland’s Historiographer Royal of the SIMS lives at St. Andrews University and stands beside the hull of LK.62, the RESEARCH a 'Scotch zulu' boat once intended as a prize second Working Boat yacht to accompany the REAPER but too expensive in practice and instead kept as a static exhibit so that work on preserving such wood might be studied.  The fisherfolk came to view these W.B. yachts as their own and not yachts at all but rather a symbol of their power as a community and so had developed a bad relationship with others feeling that the yachts were ex-fishing scows and of upper class significance.

On June, 8th, 1994 the United States Steamship Jeremiah O'Brien sailed from San Fransisco to Europe to help celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the WW2 Normandy landings, but Robert Prescott of the Medway Barge community hadn't shown an appearance, he'd also been viewed in the US as claiming as facts things that he couldn't prove so wasn't given the recognition that many in England thought he'd deserved but he'd enjoyed life.
 

>>20 watt magnet system of the  EMI  711 needs a very powerful vintage tube amplifier of the American market, 100 watt Bogen were used but in modern times we might not get the most pleasant sound with today's Solid State 100 watt amplifiers, that's due to the D.F. factor, often neglected in partnering speaker and amplifier.  The mid/woofer is using red foam and a plywood baffle, many of the EMI speakers suited for 'live' baffle uses, this cabinet build type not seen here, but the baffle sits on grille cloth so that it's able to vibrate.  The huge magnet is for powerful deep low frequencies and must be mounted upon long baffles as the one seen with other drivers mounted above.

<<Acoustic loading of a coaxial EMI 92390FP is yellow fiberglass in the pattern seen and of different effect to white fiberglass.  This FP appears to be a DANGEROUS SPEAKER and not the later MERCILESS SPEAKER often associated with the 'F' series.  The motor is a 10 watt with the intended driving amplifier being a LEAK TL10 as a used pair between £2000-3000 in England.  The EMI ten watt motors are paper tube voice coil former 4-layer, giving 4 x the efficiency of a single wound bobbin but need very high... 

>>...quality low volume outputs not available in high power Silicon Solid State amplifiers.  92390FC>> is another DANGEROUS SPEAKER using a tube rectifier and the 'G' series being the 13 x 8 MERCILESS SPEAKER using Solid State 'Stud Diode' bridge rectifiers.  Note the 4-ohm impedance of the FC and its 15 watt motor suited to LEAK TL12, cheaper than LEAK TL10 at around £1200-1800 a pair in England, this being a 319 series speaker and utterly stunning in sound stage after some months of running in.

<<  EMI  92390FP 13 x 8 DANGEROUS SPEAKER on a 'Live Baffle' with corner joists and double-sided ribbon plywood box, using a chipboard baffle.  8-ohm motor suited to LEAK TL10.  There were once a great many of the ten watt 13 x 8 in internet auctions but the sources appear to have dried up and there may not be so many still available.  Don't undervalue the small enclosure like this with a rear mounted core as with LEAK TL10 only and phonograph vinyl records, you'll begin to appreciate what these are truly capable of, playing 1950s Jazz, other equipment might then be tried but may not measure up.

>>Dynasonic cabinet with  EMI  92390DM and ten watt motor sound tailored to the Dynasonic amplifier above custom manufactured by Sansui of Japan using a 6BX7 double triode Beam, as a superb Stereo amplifier with two 'potted' Output Transformers and 2 x 10 watts from each two tubes, tweeters mounted across a rectangular drone (early type of port) using a Live Baffle, the grille cloth sits under the baffle when screwed into the enclosure seat.  The AlNiCo motor tweeter is claimed capable of 17KHz so a special version.  Below, a very similar Stereo 'Bronze Basket' speaker system labeled the 'Richard Allan 3 - 8 ohm', the story going that Dennis A. Newbold and Arthur E. Falkus left Richard Allan to set up FANE and were involved in taking the  EMI  13 x 8 forward, after year 1966, Jim Sugden launching his 'Class A' Solid State A21 in 1967, EMI speakers only for a few elite buyers, we're able to see in the above amplifier, the quality needed for ten watt motor 13 x 8 cores.

<<Dynasonic speaker with vertical drone instead of horizontal, woofer baffle strut for strong low frequencies.  Newbold and Falkus have seen the Dynasonic as a serious product and something available to the lower society at the time, going on to produce the B&W P1 and P2 with their own FANE 13 x 8 using Solid State SONY TA-1120, a wide-band of 10Hz-100KHz for FANE IONOFANE Plasma Tweeter horns copied from US DuKane of the late 1950s, their very different 13 x 8 woofers for a D.F. of 70, P1 and P2 the most powerful steam locomotives of Sir Nigel Gresley, Britain's L.N.E.R. railroad engineer.

>>Woofer from a B&W (Bowers & Wilkins) P2 named after the Gresley P2, most powerful steam locomotive of Britain's L.N.E.R. railroad company and so revered by the upper society ... to this day, that it's being brought back!  Not so the huge B&W P2 speaker but the woofer basket was deeper to push more air and the speaker as a whole, does in fact, beat the QUAD ESL-57.

<<The anisotropic ferrite magnet was a high end feature, and the most expensive in the store, whilst rare today, the stamped steel basket suggests there are or at least were thousands made, albeit that cars (or boats) once as numerous have nearly all disappeared.  Although the EMI 319 might appear to produce awesome low bass extension, FANE deepened the basket and used a rubberized pleated edge exclusively for the SONY TA-1120.

>>REALISTIC NOVA 8 with rubberized cloth edge preferred in the US middle market to paper of the high end B&W P2.  The REALISTIC  STA-75 receiver was made by PANASONIC and its NOVA 8 loudspeaker from the year 1974 is still fashioned after late 1960s, early 1970s sounds, cone tweeters became disliked as power handling was seen as more important, their voice coils are tiny and easily overheat, the B&W P2 Plasma tweeter is worse still, all of 1 watt maximum power handling.  A later generation of amplifiers sounds better at higher volume than at very low volume, their round transformers in the lower market affect speaker power handling requirements, in 1979 Practical Wireless launch just such a Winton amplifier with Hitachi MOSFETs.

>> the  EMI  69 belongs to aristocratic groups not well understood by the lower society, uses a PVC edge professional core with white tweeter cover below visible through the grille, unique photo, the size of the box of interest to constructors.

<<92390AE, very early core with a triple cone, the outer tan, middle grey and aluminum center are extremely rare, mainly found in Japan where EMI are still revered.  Note the surround is of the paper pleated kind seen with low D.F. tube amplifiers.  The different cone layers give an ideal voice to the frequencies supplied by a tube amplifier but we don't know what the elite had used, whether EMI's own amplifiers like the R.S.141, a tricked out LEAK TL.25, something with a D.F. of 5, or the EMI 'Orthotone' STD.381.  The 69 has a bare cork gasket PVC edge 13 x 8 but is aristocratic and not shared with the lower society.

Above Rex Harrison edu. Birkdale prep and Liverpool College living at at 75 Eaton Square, Belgravia, a furnished pad.  <<Ralph Assheton, 1st Baron Clitheroe, KCVO PC JP DL, nobility, educated at Summer Fields School and Eton College.^[2], appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Lancashire November 16th 1955,^[5] later serving as Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire, from 1971 to 1976, appointed a Knight of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (KStJ) in February 1972,^[6] and to the Royal Victorian Order as a Knight Commander in 1977 upon his retirement from Council of the Duchy of Lancaster.^[7]  <<Photo: National Portrait Gallery

>>Lower middle class SONY SS-E50 might be rated 91dB SPL on internet reviews but Lab-tested by the British only 86dB SPL and incapable of being driven by a 'Japanese' Pioneer style amplifier rated less than 110 watts per channel.  The P.W. Winton back in the day, couldn't cut the mustard, unless matched with something lab-tested to flatter their Hitachi output signature - something Japanese.  Matching amplifier for E50 is a SANYO made SONY TA-AX4, an awesome cooling pipe heat-sink you know launched in a glare of publicity that SANYO made for Technics too, but these, not sounding as good as 1970s cone tweeter stereo systems, higher power handling dome tweeters but at a price, the British woofer here differs from other global markets, looking like a Rank-Wharfedale, it's an outsourced TAMON imported by Monitor Audio of Essex but the plastic mid/high cluster is by SONY.

<<SONY SS-E70 x-over keeps coils and electrolytic capacitors in an adhesive mounted on asbestos resin and they sound just like that but many Japanese amplifiers are in fact engineered to perform best with their own catalog matched speakers and that's why they got a bad name when hooked to something they weren't designed to use and people having bought at lowest price, entered the race to the bottom and arrived there, were disappointed in results.

>>2SK134 Hitachi power MOSFETs in the P.W. Winton.  Possible US market speakers for these are Radio Shack's Optimus-27, Optimus T-100 and a special version of MOSFET ready Mach One with stiff black foam edge woofer found in 1980 running with the Hitachi MOSFET STA-2200 receiver.  Hitachi speakers very expensive and the Winton single rail power supply driven, a British approach.

<<A P.W. Winton owner's room, light colored wood treatment, the British 'slimline' amplifiers resembling SONY TA-AX4, and courtesy of the Winton's round transformer, winning friends with buyers whose speakers need more current, reviews of amplifiers on the internet nearly always fail to give the speaker models used in their conclusion about an amplifier they thought a winner, the Winton has the old point-to-point-soldered pots, a bunch of wiring rather than thin circuit board links that sound less impressive, it uses the European DIN plugs for inputs and has a fiberglass circuit board.