The Night Mail

[Hroth]

12 hours ago, Happy Hippo said:

WOPA WOPA WOPA WOPA

 

It's a Chinook returning.

 

12 hours ago, J. S. Bach said:

Thank you and Phil!!

 

 

A Hippo in a Chinook?? Welcome back!!!!

 

2 hours ago, newbryford said:

 

More under than in?

 

Better than danglin' from a cluster of balloons!

 

[monkeysarefun]

51 minutes ago, PhilJ W said:

The current Rolls Royce looks like something a pimp would drive.

 

 

Here the humble Aussie Sports  Ute

 

 

 

 

Has been replaced by this kind of feral invader, taking over everything like the cane toads have.

 

 

 

 

Edited August 11, 2023 by monkeysarefun

[SteveyDee68]

1 hour ago, iL Dottore said:

It used to be (at least according to one 60's writer*) Rolls Royces were for footballers and "pop stars" whilst Bentleys were for "Gentlemen" and the styling reflected that.

My great uncle (on my mother’s side) back in the 1960s rented a council house which came with a separate garage. Not having a car to put in it, he decided to rent it out. He got a very nice income from a local bookie, who every morning would arrive in his Rolls Royce and proceed to park it in the garage for the day, driving an older and more mundane car to his place of work. Every evening he would turn up and swap them back again before driving home.

 

His reasoning was that if his punters saw him arriving at work in his Rolls Royce that they would realise that the only real ‘winner’ is the bookie taking the bets and that he was doing rather too well for himself, and therefore decide not to gamble their money with him!

 

According to my mum, that is why my great uncle never placed a bet on anything in his life.

 

So, maybe not just footballers?

 

Steve S

[iL Dottore]

2 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

The current Rolls Royce looks like something a pimp would drive.

Harsh!

[jamie92208]

2 hours ago, SteveyDee68 said:

My great uncle (on my mother’s side) back in the 1960s rented a council house which came with a separate garage. Not having a car to put in it, he decided to rent it out. He got a very nice income from a local bookie, who every morning would arrive in his Rolls Royce and proceed to park it in the garage for the day, driving an older and more mundane car to his place of work. Every evening he would turn up and swap them back again before driving home.

 

His reasoning was that if his punters saw him arriving at work in his Rolls Royce that they would realise that the only real ‘winner’ is the bookie taking the bets and that he was doing rather too well for himself, and therefore decide not to gamble their money with him!

 

According to my mum, that is why my great uncle never placed a bet on anything in his life.

 

So, maybe not just footballers?

 

Steve S

I seem to remember that when Maggie became PM, that Dennis was told not drive up to no 10 in his Roller as it wouldn't go down well with the voters.  She had married the bosses son.   As to what a pimp would drive these days, I haven't knowingly met any since I retired so wouldn't know. 

 

Jamie

Edited August 11, 2023 by jamie92208

[Northmoor]

1 hour ago, jamie92208 said:

I see to remember that when Maggie became PM, that Dennis was told not drive up to n his Roller as it wouldn't go down well with the voters.  She had married the bosses son.   As to what a pimp would drive these days, I haven't knowingly met any since I retired so wouldn't know. 

 

Jamie

I think I may have told the story before of a bloke in the Slough area about 30 years ago, who worked in some very normal-paying job but had bought himself an old Rolls-Royce; after the 1973 oil crisis, secondhand ones were relatively cheap for years and not expensive to run if you kept the mileage down.

 

He was made redundant and for a while was on unemployment benefit (entirely within his rights) for which he had to attend the dole office.  Of course, he made a point of driving there to sign on each week/fortnight in his Roller, knowing that it would annoy the hell out of the DHSS staff who no doubt wondered how on earth he was eligible for benefits.

[jamie92208]

8 minutes ago, Northmoor said:

I think I may have told the story before of a bloke in the Slough area about 30 years ago, who worked in some very normal-paying job but had bought himself an old Rolls-Royce; after the 1973 oil crisis, secondhand ones were relatively cheap for years and not expensive to run if you kept the mileage down.

 

He was made redundant and for a while was on unemployment benefit (entirely within his rights) for which he had to attend the dole office.  Of course, he made a point of driving there to sign on each week/fortnight in his Roller, knowing that it would annoy the hell out of the DHSS staff who no doubt wondered how on earth he was eligible for benefits.

I remember them being cheap in the 70'swas it the early Silver Shadows. The first with a monocoque body rather than coach built on a chassis. 

 

Jamie

[Happy Hippo]

25 minutes ago, jamie92208 said:

I remember them being cheap in the 70'swas it the early Silver Shadows. The first with a monocoque body rather than coach built on a chassis. 

 

Jamie

I've always had a monocoque body.....

[pH]

5 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:

I've always had a monocoque body.....

EA!!!!

[polybear]

2 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

Harsh!

 

On Rolls Royce?

Or the pimp?

 

[SM42]

The cheapest Rollers could be found at the bottom of a swimming pool I believe. 

 

I have been in the garage all afternoon attempting to

 

A. Clean it after Sunday's flood. 

 

and

 

B. Make a low table effort for the bicycles to stand on. 

The main reason is to lift them up so that they are above the step at either end of the space we have for them, thus allowing them to be a bit less sticky outy  and make it easier to get round the car and open the boot. 

 

So far my drill battery has gone flat and I have broken one drill bit through rather carelessly trying to drill a curved hole. 

 

I'm now awaiting the battery to recharge. 

 

The screws for the job we're bought by weight in the local DIY shed.  Some OSB that comes in a variety of sizes, in my case 1200 x 600mm and 200 x 600mm  to give the 1400mm I needed was also purchased. 

 

The plywood section looks worth investigating for baseboard size pieces too. 

 

Tomorrow we are off to Zmigrod for the  armed forces day picnic. 

 

Lord knows what will be going on but I suspect some firearms may be involved if last year's events are anything to go by

 

Andy

[jamie92208]

1 hour ago, Happy Hippo said:

I've always had a monocoque body.....

Is that because your skin is stressed. 

 

Jamie

[AndyID]

Apart from restoring a Hawker Hurricane, Peter Vacher also restored old RRs. I knew him through work and stayed at his place in Abingdon one time. He showed me the old RR he was restoring in his barn. It was formerly a hearse. and had been completely rewired but he went to the trouble of sliding the original braided sleeving on wires where they came out of conduits.

 

https://hawkerrestorations.co.uk/_images/_articles/flypastjun05.html

 

 

Edited August 11, 2023 by AndyID
speeling

[Dave Hunt]

1 hour ago, Happy Hippo said:

I've always had a monocoque body.....

 

I thought a body like that would require a framework like an airship but made of tungsten steel.

 

Dave

[iL Dottore]

2 hours ago, Happy Hippo said:

I've always had a monocoque body.....

Lovingly hand-buffed to a fine sheen by dedicated craftsmen?

[iL Dottore]

56 minutes ago, SM42 said:

The cheapest Rollers could be found at the bottom of a swimming pool I believe. 

I wonder how many will catch the Keith Moon reference?

[Dave Hunt]

Managed to get down to the shed for a while this afternoon for the first time in over a week I think. I've almost finished the fencing - all fifty feet of it - with just a couple of feet to go. I never want to fit another bit of model fencing as long as I live! Next up are a couple of tidying up details on the shed then it's loads of bushes, shrubs, trees, brambles and other lumps of greenery round the perimeter. Rather than doing it all in one fell swoop, though, which would probably get boring and threaten the mojo, I'll intersperse it with doing some much needed maintenance on some of my locomotives and finishing off the two ballast brakes for the breakdown train.

 

Dave

 

Edited August 11, 2023 by Dave Hunt
speling mistaiks agane

[Happy Hippo]

5 minutes ago, iL Dottore said:

Lovingly hand-buffed to a fine sheen by dedicated craftsmen?

Nanny used to loving hand buff me when I was smaller and not so grumpy.

 

[SM42]

30 minutes ago, iL Dottore said:

I wonder how many will catch the Keith Moon reference?

 

Who?

 

Finished in the garage. 

 

The bike table is a success and measure to within 20mm of being too small 

 

It's like a job down the town.

 

There is some French beer in the fridge that the BiL brought back off their holidays. 

 

It won't be in there much longer.

 

Andy

[iL Dottore]

45 minutes ago, iL Dottore said:

I wonder how many will catch the Keith Moon reference?

 

13 minutes ago, SM42 said:

 

Who?

 

G R O A N !

[SM42]

28 minutes ago, iL Dottore said:

 

G R O A N !

 

Eh?

 

Andy

[Tim Dubya]

1 hour ago, iL Dottore said:

Lovingly hand-buffed to a fine sheen by dedicated craftsmen?

 

 

 

[figworthy]

4 hours ago, Northmoor said:

I think I may have told the story before of a bloke in the Slough area about 30 years ago, who worked in some very normal-paying job but had bought himself an old Rolls-Royce; after the 1973 oil crisis, secondhand ones were relatively cheap for years and not expensive to run if you kept the mileage down.

 

He was made redundant and for a while was on unemployment benefit (entirely within his rights) for which he had to attend the dole office.  Of course, he made a point of driving there to sign on each week/fortnight in his Roller, knowing that it would annoy the hell out of the DHSS staff who no doubt wondered how on earth he was eligible for benefits.

 

Reminds me of someone I was at school with who borrowed a car from his dad to take his driving test in.  I can't remember what his dad did for a living, but it was enough to run to a range rover and a roller.

 

Adrian

[Dave Hunt]

1 hour ago, iL Dottore said:

I wonder how many will catch the Keith Moon reference?

 

1 hour ago, SM42 said:

 

Who?

 

      Tommy

[AndyID]

I don't know how well known it is but for quite a while when you bought a RR or a Bentley a fair bit of it was actually a Chevy 😄

 

https://www.rrsilvershadow.com/ETechn/gearbox/index.htm