Captain Cuttle

Yes i see that, i built a lot of O gauge Westdale kits some twenty+ years ago and got really into them and all their detail differences. I remember that some the VSOE steel cars had a mock truss underframe for aesthetic reasons to mimic the older wooden bodies cars.

I wish that the Morris Minor GPO van may mate hit in my minivan when i was was teaching him to drive on a country road in East Kent back in the late sixties had rubber wings. Instead we had to look for a replacement front panel, bonnet and an offside wing but couldnt find one and it ended up with this from a scrapyard!

Some Kitchen 3rds were all steel.

Asbestos was removed back in the 1990s in Turkey and then Ukraine.

I prefer feet and inches as when its mm and cm folk tend to get the noughts in the wrong places and that includes my better half, bless her!

I am not doubting what you have said but i have been following info from various forums etc and never ever heard this mentioned before. With the continuing docking fees, i wonder why it hasnt it been sent to a US Navy yard then?

Why hasn't it been towed away and scrapped by now?

Yes thats a Solara, we hired one in the eighties and quite comfortable from what i remember. Also at one time hired a yellow Horizon and noisy tappets comes to mind.

Mind you, the Mini's seem to be a bundle of trouble for all sorts of reasons.

Isnt there something going on at present about Ford UK wriggling out of replacing these engines whilst in the USA its all been approved.

Nice colour that suits it, hopefully with that mileage pretty good underneath?

We had an immaculate metallic blue MG Metro in mid eighties, my wife drove it and liked it but i found the seat too narrow for my rear end! I think we had a water leak and on further investigation after lifting the carpets found the inner sills were rotting out so after a bit of disguising work got rid of it. Shame as it looked good and drove well.

We hired one back in the 70s after leaving the RAF and moving all our stuff from Romford to Mullion. It had the handling capabilities of a rice pudding. Plus it was running a tad rich at about 20 mpg. Got it fixed before returning, it had split diaphragm in carb and. that woke it up!

Our ginger Teddy looked at your picture and said oh dear oh dear oh dear!

I would rather have had Dads 3.4 mk 2 Jaguar, it was probably the best car we ever had, quiet, fast and comfortable, note the yellow socks! Sept 1970 Kynance Cornwall plus one of TKE 675 in our drive Leicester Ave Cliftonville 1968. In the garage out of sight was my maroon1952 Jowett Javelin NXA 89!

He was unwanted in Blue Cross because he was eight and very unwell. My wife Kathy took one look at him and here he is, luckily we got him a week before they closed 28 Feb 2020 because of Covid. His original name is Hercules and although i love the Class 50s, Teddy suits him better.

And here is Little Sox, soaking wet, put food in garage, dryed him off still spitting growling etc which i ignore and he scoffed the lot also one of Teddy on my shoulders. This is usually twice daily and he will sit up there for twenty minutes or so purring, happy cat.

This is just like the two we feed, we call them sox and little sox. Both short hair black with yes you've guessed it white sox. The older one is going blind in one eye and very wary and very quiet but spends most of his day in a covered section of my garden railway on a mat i found for him. The other been here since he was a kitten, if you can imagine that instead of four legs he has four pogo sticks thats little sox. Meow, meow, meow,meow,meow,meow, growl,growl,growl, spit,spit,spit,spit all at the same time! So pleased to see you and devours his food with gusto, probably got worms who knows, what can you do? Our twelve year old Blue Cross rescued long haired ginger tom Ted looking out the windows follows little sox around the bungalow but ignores the older cat completely.

Worked on enough of those in 60s and 70s in various bodyshops. Most just basic reliable cars from what i remember. Maybe an exception would be the Vauxhall Victor, first british saloon to have a stick on windscreen. I worked for a main dealer and what a pain they were, lots of issues with leaks, trying to get them out with cheesewire and those oh so pretty but difficult to fit stainless window trims! For me now just prefer our Yaris and Jazz and apart from a Mk 2 Golfthey been the most reliable car we have ever had.

And.................Tanning Parlours plus eyelash extensions!

I know but medication seems to have affected my memory, thanks

Thank you Jim for your detailed reply. I will see what i can find out from the club. It may well have been from Liverpool.

Maybe more obscure if i had asked the name of the ships cat?😄

Hi, Anyone have any idea how long would a typical voyage would take carrying five new prototype Jowett cars and forty tons of spares from Hull to a South Island port of New Zealand to arrive there in October of 1954. Regards