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Lyndon Yorke of Marlow has built a reputation by producing one off weird and wacky mechanical devices (sometimes described as art!) whereby old mechanisms from Victorian and Edwardian times have been 'adapted/converted/re-utilized so to amuse via both river and terra firma bods.
The series of 'river machines' have/can been seen at Henley Royal Regatta over the past few years, the Tritanic - an amphibious,side by side Edwardian style tricycle, the Tritania - the worlds first amphibious wickerwork 1922 bathchair, the Dreadnought a steam fired, coal fired electromechanical twin paddle wheel steamboat.
For Henley Festival Lyndon has produced a series of almost totally useless devices
such as the 'Whatsometer', a very large mechanical programme, the Whatsometer mark 2 , and for 2001 the Buskermatic a life sized mechanical visual orchestra in which there will be many interesting mechanisms and other effects.
Also built is a 1922 Citroen B2 with wickerwork body - see photo on other page.
Other mechanical oddities are now well advanced
Propeller driven bicycle based on a vintage 1930s Paris paper delivery cycle now prop driven!
The front of the workshop is 'Hurrycane' an old aeroplane fuselage being converted to a propeller drive 'aerocar' all wickered!, see photo on other pages.
This photograph is of the Whatsometer mark 1, built specially for the 1999 Henley Festival of Music & Arts, an operator dependant machine for visual indication of the precise festival programme content for each day, clearly and visually informs the audience of who, where, time of each session, contains 17 electric windscreen wiper motors plus many old bits of washing machines, bicycles, mangles, aeroplane.
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