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Austin Sevens at Cambridge University
#1
The 1958 stunt when students managed to hoist a 1931 van onto the roof of the Senate House is quite well known, but I didn't know there was a second stunt, in 1963, when an RP was suspended from the arch of the Bridge of Sighs - it features briefly in this Youtube video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0a9vUzOVUI


.jpg   1963 Cambridge stunt 2.JPG (Size: 143.98 KB / Downloads: 529)
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#2
And the car was supplied by Ray Walker, famed Austin 7 garage owner in Cambridge. He was approached by some students, interested in a ramshackle, engineless car in the yard. When his suspicions were raised it was to do with a stunt, he told them the car was not for sale but if it was not in the yard the next morning, no questions would be asked!
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#3
I think it was floated there on punts...
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#4
I believe it was put on a raft, with the manpower supplied via punts.
This picture is in daylight so might have been when it was removed. It also features what looks like 'a grown up' possibly supervising?


.jpg   cambridge raft.jpg (Size: 53.63 KB / Downloads: 344)

   
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#5
Golly, student in flannels and white shirts wearing ties! Spiffing, what?
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#6
Not sure the punt hire people would be so happy these days.
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#7
I don't imagine that they were asked!
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#8
All of the Colleges have their own 'fleet' so Scudamores wouldnt have had to have been involved, I suspect...
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