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Post  1/2 A-Team Fri Aug 12, 2011 1:14 am

My goodness, it really changed around here since I was last on. I was wondering why Cox called his original items "Thimble Drome".
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Post  Admin Fri Aug 12, 2011 1:22 am

Well, think about what a hippodrome is used for and the size of a thimble.
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Post  1/2 A-Team Fri Aug 12, 2011 1:28 am

Now I understand the thimble part as being small but the hippodrome part, isn't that a place where they have horse shows?
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Post  Admin Fri Aug 12, 2011 1:31 am

hippodrome airdrome the meaning of drome is a racecourse. Yeah, a hippodrome is usually for horse shows and horse races.
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Post  1/2 A-Team Fri Aug 12, 2011 1:42 am

How did he pull that name out of his.... Its just odd.
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Post  Admin Fri Aug 12, 2011 1:46 am

Well it was the 1940s when he came up with the name, there was a slight difference in the vocabulary from today's vocab.
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Post  1/2 A-Team Fri Aug 12, 2011 1:54 am

Huh, I suppose that makes sense.
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Post  nitroairplane Fri Aug 12, 2011 4:20 am

Isn't it from Aero drome? And a thimble was small a bit like classing aircraft by nuts such as peanut orcwalnut scale.
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Post  Admin Fri Aug 12, 2011 10:03 am

nitroairplane wrote:Isn't it from Aero drome? And a thimble was small a bit like classing aircraft by nuts such as peanut orcwalnut scale.
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Yeah airdrome-aerodrome, a thimble is small so it is like a classing scale. If you notice in some of their ads and packages, you can see a plane flying out of a thimble.
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Post  nitroairplane Fri Aug 12, 2011 10:23 am

Oh yeah I've seen that on parts packages but yeah some say airdrome others aerodrome some say airfoil others aerofoil.
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Post  gcb Fri Aug 12, 2011 12:40 pm

Admin wrote:
nitroairplane wrote:Isn't it from Aero drome? And a thimble was small a bit like classing aircraft by nuts such as peanut orcwalnut scale.
It went from Thimble Drome
To TD
To Tee Dee

Yeah airdrome-aerodrome, a thimble is small so it is like a classing scale. If you notice in some of their ads and packages, you can see a plane flying out of a thimble.
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True, but the name "Thimble Drome" was used on Roy Cox's race car called the "Thimble Drome Special" made from 1948-1950 before he started manufacturing his first airplane engine, the "Space Bug" in 1952. My GUESS would be that the thimble was used because his race car was much smaller than most of that era.

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Post  Admin Fri Aug 12, 2011 12:58 pm

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nitroairplane wrote:Isn't it from Aero drome? And a thimble was small a bit like classing aircraft by nuts such as peanut orcwalnut scale.
It went from Thimble Drome
To TD
To Tee Dee

Yeah airdrome-aerodrome, a thimble is small so it is like a classing scale. If you notice in some of their ads and packages, you can see a plane flying out of a thimble.
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True, but the name "Thimble Drome" was used on Roy Cox's race car called the "Thimble Drome Special" made from 1948-1950 before he started manufacturing his first airplane engine, the "Space Bug" in 1952. My GUESS would be that the thimble was used because his race car was much smaller than most of that era.

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First, welcome to the forum! Your right, he did have the Thimble Drome Champion and the Thimble Drome Special cars before he got into the planes. I know drome means "racecourse" and his cars were smaller compared to the other tether cars of the day so he very well could have gotten thimble from that.

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Post  nitroairplane Fri Aug 12, 2011 1:29 pm

Yes that seems to make more sense. But we were on the right track if you'll pardon the pun.
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