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Another piece of Nottingham motor trivia, T Shipside were the developers of Tollerton Airport and Truman Aviation belonged to Truman's Garage.
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The proliferation of new car dealerships in former times is quite amazing. I guess in the days before conglomerates like British Leyland, there were lots of independent makes to sell.
Before WW2 most garages were 'agents' for manufacturers so they sold cars on behalf of the maker's. This means that the car stock belonged to the maker, not the garage. They usually were members of the 'Motor Agents' Association' and sold a variety of makes.
Following WW2 garages started to buy their own stock and were called 'dealers' and focused on a smaller number of aligned makes.
In legal terms an 'agent' and a 'dealer' are quite different. Even the Motor Agents' Association had to change its name and cease using the term 'agent'.
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Maybe the poor weather kept a lot of people inside!!
I thought it may have been due to the scintillating, educational, inspirational, incisive and humorous chatter.
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I see that we had 99 members online on the 28th October, a new record.
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Milk-square > Milk-streetMilk-street > Glasshouse-street
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The Guildhall also housed the City Treasurers office
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Truman's was a Rolls Royce, Jaguar, Rover dealer that merged with F Mitchell at Triumph Corner and became Truman-Mitchell around 1977-ish.
The Rolls workshop was at the top of the ramp between to the right of the building now occupied by Hopewells..
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The old building was definitely Trumans, Rolls Royce showroom & workshop.
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Babs,
For mining, 'a disaster' is officially defined as when there was a death toll of 10 or more. What town/mine was your great grandfather at?
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Oh deep joy
A52 restrictions/diversions for 2 weeks around Bardill's.
http://www.thetram.net/pdfs/work-updates/chilwell/Bardills%20works%20leaflet.pdf
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What is more incredible is that in this car park there were over 100 other empty spaces!
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A few more lessons needed
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BMW and Mercedes-Benz have developed production-ready automated vehicles, which are capable of commuting on a driverless mode. They have chosen however to disable the functionality due to legislative and real-world imperatives restricting it to merely assist in traffic jam situations and parking manoeuvres. At the same time Google is making a step forward with its self-driving vehicle project. For a non-automotive participant, this creates sufficient attention for a participant such as Google moving outside its core competence.
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No one in our family had a car until my uncle bought a Morris Isis in the 1960s.
Hi Bilbraborn,
Morris Isis was posh, 6 cyl version of the Oxford, not made in great numbers. Only about 20 left now in the UK.
Any photos?
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My dad had an A30 for a few years (168AAL).
Hi Rob.L, 168AAL was issued mid-1958 so your dad probably had an A35, not the A30 that ceased production in 1956.
Outwardly very similar, the A35 had a larger rear window, flashing indicators and a painted front grille.
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A30 = 30bhp, A35 = 35bhp.
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I agree, Austin A40 Devon in my book
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Mallory Park Motorsport Limited has today announced that the company has been put into Administration.
The development and use of the circuit has become incompatible with the locals desire for peace & quiet.
Until Donington was revived Mallory Park was the nearest motor sport venue to Nottingham. I spent many weekends there in the early 70's, probably the coldest place on earth - or so it seemed.
I was lucky to see the likes of John Surtees, Ronnie Petersen, Roger Williamson et al, all great sportsmen.
Anyone have any Mallory Park memories?
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Oops, corrected.
HP do not do drivers for old scanners to work on W8.
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Office 2003 may work but not fully. I had to upgrade to 2013 but was lucky to do so for just £9.00. (Windows 8 is pre-loaded with Office 2013, you just have to pay for a key to access it)
One irritation is that so many features require you to create a Windows account just to access games etc that were easy access on XP.
It really is a good example of a product that the vendor wants you to have instead of a product the customer would like to have.
As previously mentioned, some older peripherals do not work, my scanner software is not compatible with W8 and Hewlett Packard do not provide W8 compliant software.
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This was the Varsity [WJ897 / G-BDFT] that crashed near Marchington in Staffordshire. The co-pilot was a business acquaintance.
Pubs closing or closed down
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And charity shops