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PhilJ W

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  1. My dad told me that his cousins back in the thirties lived in a house with a single outdoor toilet shared with three neighbouring houses. One of the residents, a bit of a bully used to occupy the toilet for at least an hour or two while he checked his bets in the Sporting Life and smoke a packet of Woodbines. They decided to teach him a lesson and someone suggested dropping a couple of carbide* tablets into the pan of the WC just before he entered it. When the time came to carry out their plan however instead of dropping a couple of carbide tablets they dropped about six into the pan. It didn't take long after he had entered the toilet until there was an explosion that demolished the toilet leaving the victim with a scorched backside. *Carbide tablets were used in acetylene lamps and gave off acetylene gas when placed in water.
  2. The same in local government if not worse. Incompetents were moved sideways and upwards until senior management was overloaded with them. Then when it hit the fan they always looked for someone further down the line to carry the can.
  3. Looks like the motor overheated and melted the plastic body.
  4. Perhaps if you told us what was the name of the course you were on someone might will come up with suggestions.
  5. That is the military ambulance not the ATV under discussion.
  6. Was he talking about the customers?
  7. An Austin K2 was used as a service vehicle by the Arnhem trolleybus system.
  8. He just makes up his own gibberish.
  9. The Merit container was nearer to HO scale.
  10. I remember the Rover tickets well. My brother and myself spent part of our summer school holidays travelling up to London. They weren't available on buses AFAIK and certainly not at bus garages but Elm Park station was handy and we got our tickets there. We didn't venture far from the District Line as it took us too most of the places we wanted to visit. The rolling stock on the District, the Q stock was by far the most interesting in the sixties, any train could be made up of any combination of four basic types of cars, dating from 1923 to 1938. I do remember the older cars smelling of hot bakelite and ozone.
  11. Apparently submarines have a unique smell especially after returning from a long patrol.😖
  12. Viewed from the other side it can be seen that it is two separate crossings sharing one set of barriers.
  13. I was born and brought up in Romford, a brewery town. The River Rom actually ran through the brewery and they used to drain the vats straight into the river. The smell used to pervade the town. Up until the 70's Fords at Dagenham used to produce their own steel and iron. About a mile away was the May and Baker chemicals factory (opposite Dagenham East station). If you drew a straight line between those to sites and extended it about half a mile further you came across Bretons Farm sewerage works. It only took a slight SSW breeze to combine all three pongs.
  14. It was quite common a few years ago to re-motor them and install pick-ups so that they took power from the track. For their time they were a pretty good model.
  15. There used to be a sweet factory in Manor Park in East London. I remember the smell of hot sugar that put me off of sweets.
  16. Of course they do. They are all part of the SWMBO underground network which all husbands cross at their peril. It's only RMwebs cloaking devices keep us safe.
  17. I was going to make a comment about that but decided not to as it would be in extreme bad taste.
  18. If the motor has been subject to a lot of heat its scrap anyway.
  19. Not only that, the handle starts at the top of the can near the guy's shoulder, goes through the flower symbol on the can before it disappears behind the guy's hand.
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