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Wat is er geworden van de Lancia Lambda op het dak?

Wie in de jaren zestig van Blackburn naar Blackpool reed (ontwijkend de vierduizend gaten in Blackburn, Lancashire…), kwam ongetwijfeld door het dorp Inskip. En als autoliefhebber had je dat zeker onthouden. Want de pub The Derby Arms in Inskip – beter bekend als The Motoring Bar of de Grand Prix Bar – had niets minder dan een Lancia Lambda op het dak staan om bezoekers te lokken.

 

Men gelooft dat The Derby Arms de eerste autogerichte pub van het land was, en er wordt ook gezegd dat hier de beroemde “Chicken in the Basket” zijn oorsprong vond – of dat nu waar is of niet. Er bestaat prachtig filmmateriaal van British Pathé dat het exterieur en interieur van de pub in levendige kleuren en details toont. Let ook op de andere vooroorlogse auto’s die in beeld verschijnen.

De grote vraag blijft echter: wat is er van de Lancia geworden? En welk type Lambda was het eigenlijk? We vonden een foto waarop hij door Inskip Motors het dak op wordt gehesen – een beeld dat zelfs uit de jaren vijftig zou kunnen stammen. Maar hoe lang bleef de Lambda daar boven staan? Zelfs als hij er decennia lang stond, had hij toch nog te redden moeten zijn? Wie weet meer over het lot van deze opmerkelijke auto?

 

Tekst: Jeroen Booij
Foto bron onbekend

 

Gepubliceerd:
maandag 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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