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Was ist aus der Dach-Lancia Lambda geworden?

Wer in den 1960er Jahren von Blackburn nach Blackpool fuhr (und dabei die viertausend Schlaglöcher in Blackburn, Lancashire, mied), kam höchstwahrscheinlich durch das Städtchen Inskip. Und als Automobilenthusiast hätte man sich daran sicher erinnert. Denn das Derby Arms Pub in Inskip – besser bekannt als The Motoring Bar oder Grand Prix Bar – hatte nichts Geringeres als einen Lancia Lambda auf dem Dach, um Besucher anzulocken.

 

Man nimmt an, dass das Derby Arms die erste automobilthemenbezogene Kneipe des Landes war, und außerdem soll hier das berühmte „Chicken in the Basket“ erfunden worden sein – so jedenfalls die Geschichte. Es gibt wunderbares Filmmaterial von British Pathé, das das Äußere und Innere des Pubs in lebhaften Farben und Details zeigt. Beachten Sie auch die anderen Vorkriegswagen, die dort ankommen.

Die entscheidende Frage bleibt jedoch: Was wurde aus dem Lancia? Und welches Lambda-Modell war es überhaupt? Wir stießen auf ein Foto, das zeigt, wie er von Inskip Motors aufs Dach gehievt wurde – ein Bild, das durchaus aus den 1950er Jahren stammen könnte. Doch wie lange blieb der Lambda dort oben? Selbst wenn er jahrzehntelang auf dem Dach stand, wäre er vielleicht noch zu retten gewesen? Wer weiß mehr über das Schicksal dieses bemerkenswerten Wagens?

 

Text: Jeroen Booij
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Publiziert:
Montag September 8th, 2025
DAVID BURGESS-WISE
14 September 2025, 18:34
There was also the Horseless Carriage at Chingford Hatch, which opened in 1965 (long gone!) which had a veteran on display. The film recommended by Zack Stiling brought back memories, as a young motoring writer I not only took part in the opening of the Two Hoots restaurant in Bishopsgate with my 1927 Clyno but also met Peter Sellers and Britt Ecklund at the launch of the Radford Mini. Happy days!
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Kees Jan Boosman
10 September 2025, 21:41
This Lambda is alive and well, I last saw it in 2021 at the GP Nuvolari event in Mantova, Italy. It is now in The Netherlands with Dutch registration.
The Pub still exists, alas without the excitement, and is just south of Inskip on the B5269.
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Don Williamson
10 September 2025, 14:00
The Lambda was brought down from it's perch and was being restored but I have not heard about it for some years.
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Zack Stiling
09 September 2025, 18:50
Themed museum taverns were once not an uncommon thing. We find this interesting little excerpt in Thomas Burke's "The English Inn" (1930): "Then there are those taverns which, if they do not offer entertainment in the form of music and sing-song, offer it in other forms. Many years ago, when music and dancing were first prohibited in taverns, it became the custom for publicans to go to much trouble in making their houses interesting, and to this end some of them formed collections of curiosities. A few only of these now remain. The Marquis of Granby, at New Cross, still has its collection of weapons and other trophies; the Union, at Camberwell, its bird specimens from all parts of the world; the Wheatsheaf, at Aldgate, its war museum; and the Hole in the Wall, in Borough, its collection of all sorts of curios. The George, in George Court, off the Strand, used to have a living aviary on its roof, but this has now, I believe, gone. The Bell and Mackerel, at Mile End, still has, I hope, its exhaustive entemological collection which I saw some years ago. This was an exhaustive collection of many thousands of specimens, properly displayed and documented; as interesting to the student of insect life as the collection of old playbills at Rule's must be to students of the stage."

The Derby Arms was not the only hostelry to adopt motoring as a theme, as this slightly earlier film shows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPI2aq7OT3E

Around the same period, London had its own vintage car restaurant called Two Hoots, a brief snippet of which may be enjoyed in this short film: https://www.britishpathe.com/asset/37966/
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Peter Caunt
09 September 2025, 00:07
In the 1960/70's I used to organise the local (North West) area for the Armstrong Siddley Owners Club and used the Derby Arms several times - obviously a place of great interest to us. We did visit other pubs in the Lancashire/North Cheshire area since these counties have some excellent pubs. Having mamber in Chester, we had to look at Cheshire to give him a rest fromt travelling to Lancahsire pubs since he almost always appeared at our local meets. A Great Pub but cannot help with the car - it was still there when I left in June 1982 for Australia. Best Wishes, to All,
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Keith Kuehn
08 September 2025, 19:31
WOWZA, what a cool pub! Is it still there? Getting your beer out of a gas pump is just the neatest thing I have seen, and the use of a car (Rolls-Royce) radiator for a heater is just precious! Somebody sure put their mind to good use in coming up with all that. Plus, the carpet! I am impressed! MY KINDA PLACE!
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