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  1. I saw an old photo of Thomas gray on palin street a motley looking crew indeed it was in some archive pictures meeowed
  2. pretty sure its a wyvern I was a motor mechanic they had a chrome button on each side of the bonnet you could open it from either side meeowed
  3. they used to pick up a trailer at canterbury it was a tight schedual because some ran out of hours at leicester forest and they wouldnt pay a night out you were told bring it in They had the old british waterways wharehouse on wilford road we used to carry calor gas and heaters it was a marvellous wharehouse solid oak inside meeowed
  4. I dont know where Andrews were running out of I only saw one trailer with Andrews on the side that was when I joined Clearways at the old BRS depot on Triumph road Frank also bought some Leyland road trains for the Boots contract He was in competition with Wests for it a penny cheaper in those days and you got the contract They say old man Andrews was a good boss to work for I started on an old P reg leyland with air operated clutch if you left it in gear at the traffic lights it would lose the air and take off wether you wanted to or not I remember a chap from norfolk on the dock he used to t
  5. Anyone remember Andrews haulage I believe it was the firm that Clearways took over from when they were on triumph road meeowed
  6. We had a chap on our street came back from prisoner of war camp in japan 7 stone a broken man and his daughter years later bought a japanese car imagine how he felt meeowed
  7. After the only two world wars in modern history both caused by germany why on earth would you let them get back on their feet all those millions of lives didnt mean a thing to politicians meeowed
  8. The one opposite the crem gates cant remember the name long gone years ago all the girls used to dance around their handbags on stage while the blokes got bladdered trying to summon up the courage to go and chat them up ha ha meeowed
  9. Anyone went to the iron gates derby in the 60s you had to shove hard on the gates to get in it was a cellar bar absolutely rammed There used to be a guy in there who was englebert humperdink look a like the girls were going mental to get to him The silk mill also a great pub The same with the seven stars packed out great days meeowed
  10. Great stuff you were either beatles or stones fans in my day I bet you cant remember wayne fontana and the mind benders meeowed
  11. I have just been to pay my credit card bill at my local nat west only to be told i must pay it cash or wait for a bank employee to deal with it after waiting ten minutes with no sign of anyone i gave up That will be another customer they have lost I am looking for a new bank appalling service meeowed
  12. today in the papers three people killed by police chases inside 12 hours Sheer madness in todays overstretched roadways meeowed
  13. As you see with brexit headless chicken syndrome none of them had the slightest idea what to do in the first place I cant think of any that could hold down a job in civvy street unemployable the lot if Cromwell walked in now he would say my god nothing has changed meeowed
  14. The best use i saw for drones was the Australian lifeguards they use it to drop a flotation device to a swimmer in trouble until the lifeguard gets to them meeowed
  15. Hi Tompa i think your right with all the panic stations over drones i fear all model flying will be banned within the next ten years I have tried drones myself without auto return and sat nav just trying to fly them am hopeless have been flying all sorts of fixed wing for 60 years have taught loads to fly but like you say the ones today seem clueless They dont have the knowledge you learn from building ask them have they checked the cg you get a blank stare I dont think the tv program did us any favours I now fly on my own after battling many years of jobs worths at the club I was in The ho
  16. There has been yet another police chase around ng7 11 vehicles hit and the police car rammed Thats 11 car owners losing their no claim through no fault of their own just being parked outside their home I have had the last two cars of mine hit before and no one caught just given an incident number and told claim of your insurance it just seems crazy to run these chases through residential areas you would think with all the numerous cameras everywhere today a vehicle could be tracked but all we get is has anybody seen anything meeowed
  17. I worked for chick in the 70s great guy I remember his salesman Pete who played Saturday night at the movies endlessly i went in cars that Clarkson would kill for The first car i got was a Lambo i had never seen one dodge super bee Firebird gull wing Merc the list was endless And thats not to mention chasing his daughters horse down Mapperly plains with a rope on the back of a low loader when it escaped I got this user name from Pete Hows it going meeowed ?
  18. Thats right he was a good boss but didnt rate the transport manager thats when they were on triumph road meeowed
  19. I was a member of gee dees combat flying team in the sixties I remember prof barry parkinson bill draper no longer with us We went all over the country I bought my first radio gear from grainy sad to see it closing but no one wants to build today everything must be instant with this generation I met some wonderful people aeroplane flying every aspect of society been doing it over 60 years and still get a kick out of seeing something I built take to the air I came across everyone from bank managers to lunatics have enjoyed every minute of it I was a young man like grainy at the time meeowed
  20. They seem to do that quite easily already I believe the police are doing their best but I dont see any techno help in the foreseeable future no one seems to be even working on it and my experience of the police over several decades does not inspire confidence that was before all the cuts Then we have the mikado type justice system resulting in a likely suspended sentence points and a ban on a licence they dont even have and off they go again meeowed
  21. when you see that police give up chasing a scooter rider if he throws his helmet away over concerns for his safety The same criteria doesnt seem to apply to the general public We saw just lately that five police vehicles were involved in a chase This just compounds the problem and ups the odds of it not ending well for other road users Modern technology seems to just produce more and more mindless games to play on a mobile phone when we are crying out for a means of stopping a vehicle remotely The fact that most cars today have a key code would seem a possible way to go They can even hack int
  22. I was just thinking while watching the t v Surely in the 21st century some brainwave could come up with a means of stopping a motor car in its tracks to avoid the horrendous carnage being caused by Police still playing cowboys and Indians chasing stolen cars The death toll on innocent pedestrians keeps going up drastically No matter how well trained the officers are there is a mathematical distance that any vehicle will take to come to a stop from a set speed Then i saw on a program an electronic magnet being used to stop an Aeroplane engine admitted it was a bit heath Robinson but its a sta
  23. Here is one for all people of tender years When did you last see a copy of old Moores almanac Oh Dear meeowed
  24. another really old carrier was rainbows did mainly east coast When i drove for wheldons textiles I was passed every morning on the m1 at 5oclock by bees of Leicester going like stink always first down the west end meeowed
  25. Panic over everyone saw Paddy Tipping on the news today fears of his alien abduction have been proved groundless We can all sleep safely in our beds He is back at the helm as we all sail along on the good ship Titanic meeowed