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Antique phonograph - Casa Rayo This photo most closely captures how daylight looks inside Casa Rayo. (I wonder if the phonograph will still work if we find the missing parts and wind it up?) Over the past few years, the Rayo family has been collecting Filipino antiques from all over the country with surprising ease. Many of them, like the phonograph in the photo, are most likely lost pieces of old Manila, the beautiful pre-World War II capital of the Philippines. "It's like these things are alive and have legs," Gayle Rayo laughs, referring to the old furniture. "To decorate the house, Ronnie and I went through Filipino architecture books, staring at photographs of rare furniture. We'd wish for this particular chair, or that table, etc.--then a few weeks later someone would always come along and say, 'I have this antique I want to get rid of; do you want it?' And it'd be exactly what we wanted! Weird. I'm beginning to think these things know our house exists and are 'walking' home towards us." I suspect old Manila hasn't really disappeared. The structures may be gone, but their contents are lying around, waiting to be rediscovered. When World War II and the aftermath of poverty reduced the old Manila into a slum area, the old houses and buildings that survived the bombing and looting were eventually torn down. A precious cornucopia of furniture, books, clothing, appliances, art, jewels and personal effects were dispersed into the half-hidden network of cheap antique and junk dealers all across the country. This is the same network the Rayos have tapped into. Another Quirky British bus, the Dennis Lancet. Dennis had something of a habit of re-cycling names, and this latter day Lancet bore no resemblance to it's earlier namesake. Their re entry into the world of bus building at the end of the 1970's with the Dominator double decker was followed by several 'interesting attempts' as they fished around for something that would sell in large numbers, that something being the Dart. Along the way came came the above, built using components from their familiar fire appliance and and Municipal vehicle parts bins. XSA 4Y was the Perkins V8-540 engined prototype which drove through an Alison auto box. The engine was mid mounted underfloor, other power units were available including, surprisingly the Leyland 410, others were fitted with Perkins T6.354. From experience, these buses were fun to drive, but had quite a liking for fuel though I never found reliability a problem. It is said that this bus carried the tallest Alexander 'Y' type body built, It had been new to Northern Scottish but is seen here in the Yard of Wealden PSV Sales, Kent. It later returned to Scotland, then spent a long time in the sales stock of a dealer there. Does it still exist? Similar posts: top rated appliances 2011 kitchen appliance rebates appliance world fall river ma appliance parts depot fort collins electrical appliance distributors appliance store dallas scratch and dent appliances palatka appliance online uk home appliances shopping |