The Pianoman

How much does the DNA thingy cost? Yes I know I could go to ancestry and have a look but I'm not subscribed to it.

Happy Birthday Chulla

I had a Great Uncle who lived on Glentworth Road probably until around 1979/80 when he would have died. He would have lived on Glentworth for a very long time. He was Albert Smedley. I have no idea what number Glentworth he lived at but say half way up Glentworth on left hand side with Radford Blvd. behind you. Looking at Google maps it has just reminded me that when my father was in the motor trade he had a customer who lived on Grimston Road. Unfortunately I do not know his name now but he worked at Ashwells and had an Ambassador Blue Ford Classic reg. 5043 WF. He probably died around 1970/

On mine the box isn't 'greyed out', its pure white. I am just unable to tick the box. edit: Note that I spelled 'grey' with an 'e'.

This one is my photo July this year:- And this, same time:-

I think we can all tell stories like this. My dad never talked about his family's past. I found out why about 18 months ago, a lot of it found through help on this forum I won't repeat as it has all been said elsewhere but the end result is that I have got the wrong surname.

Oldest must be Albert Smith. He'll probably know better.

Is the Slug and Lettuce closed or is it just the one at the back entrance to Broad Marsh Centre that closed?

59. Just making the most of my last two months of being 50 something!

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Sorry I didn't get back to this as a result of doing something else. As I understand it the valve turns as it moves its length of travel with the opening and closing movement of the valve spring. A coil spring is a torsion bar coiled up and as a coil spring is compressed the wire it is made of also twists. I am saying no more on the subject purely because that is about as far as I went in my research to find out which car will and will not run on unleaded petrol and why.

The valves spin as they seat. As in they don't just open and shut. The tetra lead prevents wear as they seat. Knocking occurs on top of the piston.

Tetraethyl Lead was also added to petrol not JUST to prevent knocking but also to prevent excessive wear to valves and valve seats particularly exhaust valves. It is nothing to do with cylinder lubrication. I have a 1971 Rover 2000TC. The exhaust valves are Nimonic 80A (Basically Jet heat) which is fine with unleaded but the valve seats are not suitable with unleaded (they are cast iron in an alloy head) so without the tetra lead in the petrol or a suitable additive I get valve seat recession. This engine IS NOT suitable for LPG conversion as there would be no lubrication for the valve seats.

The only criteria for a petrol engine to run on LPG is that the engine needs to be unleaded friendly as there is no lubrication available with LPG. Therein lies the problem running a diesel on it because a diesel needs the 'oilyness' of diesel fuel to provide lubrication to the engine and injector pump. Otherwise a diesel will run perfectly well on LPG but there will be little or no gain in MPG. Cost of fuel may be less.

Bus maintenance on Trent was never an issue either. I have driven for a fair few private coach companies however and without exception maintenance was NEVER anything more than 'mend it when it breaks'.

For me it is an interesting registration on the Leopard leaving Cheltenham Bus Station at #206 - 6781 DD. My 1962 Rover 100 is 5656 DD. Gloucestershire Registration.

Loads. The only ones I have knowingly ridden on was 41. Cinderhill to Trent Bridge via King Street/Queen Street.

Catfan has obviously been on the Hobgoblin!

Motor buses of that age didn't have air brakes, they had vacuum brakes. The handbrake would have been mechanical. Even the 1967 Leyland PD2 I did my PSV in still had vacuum brakes as late as that. Now I want to know what brakes trolleybuses had. Did they have an electric system to produce vacuum?

One thing I did notice while it was parked in Market Square, the poles were secured into their hook with a cable tie on each just in case they decided to flip up. It amused me a bit

Thanks. Not seen that before.

Was Trumans place the one on the corner of Bluecote (Bluecoat) Street pictured at #30?

To my eye photos 3 & 4 don't look a right lot different today. Must be the same slabs on the pavement!

My next question was going to be - Was Skynner Street off Peachey Street? Rover 2000 appeared in October 1963 and his was an early one.

I was about to ask 'Is Woodborough Road to the left off the picture', but then I spotted the Rose of England so saved me asking but I hadn't realised that there was a road bridge over Victoria Station just there. Or perhaps it is just because I have never seen a picture of it from that angle.