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[Asimo]

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That blue mk1 Golf still exists, on sorn. I checked because the number seemed familiar.

[Drum]

Late reg for a mk1 too.
My pal had an A reg mk2 gti

[Hooli]

This wonderful Great Northern Railway poster illustrates a unique event in our history. The following from 'Looping the Loop, Posters of Flying' (2000), 50-51

"This pioneer 1909 gathering coincided with another meeting at Blackpool-by-the-Sea. Even though the Doncaster meeting opened three days earlier, it was surrounded by an unseemly squabble as to which place would go down in history as the first to put on a flying exhibition in Great Britain.

The poor timing, together with equinoxial gales and local rivalries, detracted from both occasions and did little to enhance public interest in flying. Doncaster's flights were staged on the Town Moor, scene of the classic Saint Leger horse race, and attracted a dozen airmen, mostly French and Belgian . . . The greatest height attained by any aviator was only two hundred seventy three meters, reached by Roger Sommer on a Farman biplane in what was described by one journalist as 'the worst breeze that has ever been flown in'

Delarange, on a Bleriot, took the Trademan's Cup with a new speed record of 52 miles per hour. For Britain, the only performance of note was that of Colonel Samuel F. Cody with a biplane so big it was dubbed the 'tramcar.' An American by birth, Cody became a British subject at a public ceremony in the midst of the meeting"

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[bunglebus]

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[Hooli]

No idea

[christine]

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[Hooli]

Range Rover Fleetline ....

Another look at a "base model" - in this case the rare Range Rover Fleetline introduced in 1982, with manual steering.
This was intended for people who used their Range Rover as a working vehicle, while lowering the "entry level" price of Range Rover purchase in what was still a recession.
Power steering was absent on the original Range Rover but it became optional in early 1973 and was standardized by 1980.

The Fleetline was priced at £13,200 in Feb '82 compared to £14,065 for the regular two-door. And as mentioned, the biggest difference was manual rather than power steering. But not just that ....
On the Fleetline vinyl replaced velvet on the seats and vinyl replaced carpet on the tool box cover/spare wheel cover.
Removable footwell carpets were deleted in favour of rubber mats as were leather steering wheel, electric aerial, door speakers, underbonnet lamp and head-rests. (details via range-rover-classic)

The Police were a major customer for Range Rovers in Fleetline spec. - both when it was a listed model and at other times when there was a custom Police spec.
Peter Jones tells us: "the Police initially had a few roll over, but restacking of the ton of emergency equipment sorted that.....
The lack of power steering for Police vehicles leads to an amusing story of a Chief Constable saying.... "if his Lads couldn’t turn a steering wheel they wouldn’t be much use in a rumble".

The "Fleetline" Range Rover seems to only have been offered as a regular model for a fleeting period - probably because as the 1980s progressed Range Rover demand grew and the company could sell all they could build of the more highly specified versions - though a more basic spec. would still have been available for special customers and for export markets.

Of course with the Range Rover being a vehicle which formed the basis for many conversions and custom builds, and which was exported around the globe - all kinds of permutations of specification came off the production line. Including van versions which were popular abroad with some staying in the UK (see comment).
But the "Fleetline" appears the only occasion a specific "base" model formed part of the UK catalogue.

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[JimH]

I've posted this elsewhere but I actually found this on the floor of a soon to be demolished drawing office archive of a soon to be demolished paper mill. It is a rag boiler which was used for boiling rags under high pressure so the fibre could be used for paper making. The blokes clothes give away the fact it's quite modern despite the scene bordering on Victorian. Date on the back was 1977.



I saw the boilers not long before that bit of the plant was demolished in about a decade ago. Four of them sitting in a line. Stripped of all the pipework and equipment to give any clues as to what they were they sat in a boarded off area of one production building looking like some sort of Quatermass experiment.

[Hooli]

They do look like something from a HG Wells novel don't they?

[JimH]

I tipped the wink that the building was about to be demolished to someone who liked photographing that sort of thing and they popped along and took some pictures. They weren't the easiest thing to photograph because of where they were. However, imagine you are sauntering round a derelict and very abandoned part of a plant, you turn a corner and come face to face with this.

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It was more than a little unsettling.