MrWolf

Bostin, even!

The pivot at the top of the Jenny caliper is fitted with a type of Thackray washer and is very stiff. It can also be tightened if necessary. Although a little practice is required at first perhaps, it's a pretty much foolproof tool and I'd recommend it to anyone. The tip isn't massively sharp and could be further blunted if required.

I too can vouch for the superior quality of @chuffinghell's printed wagons, as I built three T3 prototypes for appraisal and it may possibly have been me who pestered him to create them, but it wouldn't have happened without his drawing ability and knowledge of exactly how to support the print of a longer wagon than most prints to keep everything square and straight. On the subject of scribing parallel lines such as wagon interior planks, this tool, known variously as the Jenny caliper, Odd leg or Hermaphrodite caliper is an absolute godsend. I've used one for years on sheet metal for marking out and another has ended up in the house for modelling purposes. With care, you can scribe lines inside a built up wagon.

Indeed. We seem to have acquired two more motorcycles from the last time Britain had a king. There may be another in the pipeline, I'm working on it.

Don't tell me that we're going to need trigger warnings on RMWeb now! WARNING TO SENSITIVE VIEWERS: LITTLE MUDDLE IS SET IN THE LATE 1930s AND CONTAINS SCENES WHICH REPRESENT THE ATTITUDES AND LOCOMOTIVES OF THE PERIOD WHICH SOME VIEWERS MAY FIND OFFENSIVE. Good. Count me in.

I thought that was the armoured train full of German loot? Or is that in the siding on the down line?

Arkwright or Margaret Thatcher's dad?

He really should be in the running for a Goldsmith's Prize for fiction writing.

I'm afraid it's going to be one of my home brewed contraptions using a variety of materials, it will have a cast chassis and as much steel shot as can be crammed into the body. I spring loaded my Beyer 0-4-4 trailing bogie with a bent piece of music wire from the offset pivot to the centre of the bogie, which stops it doing it's own thing when reversing over points.

A lot of end loading docks had metal plates that were hinged to drop down over buffers onto the end of the wagon, usually hinged back to lay flat on the platform when not in use. Some were completely removable.

A bit of fixing up and removal of the black paint (Dulux applied using next door's cat as a brush?) and it would actually look pretty good. Not £175 good though.

Would it be contentious for me to respond with: Whereas politicians would prefer us to be sheep.. ? 😁

I used to have a similar problem with dogs.

And the next part of the song line "in your long black limousine" was not a reference to a 1961 Cadillac Fleetwood either...

I wish someone had told me that four years ago. I have too many* of both... *Although they're like panniers, N=X+1

2CV's and the original Ami 6 are great. Even 007 got a lift in one when his Lotus did its usual party trick of catching fire. This clip always reminds me of when we were trying to find our way out of Bradford in the Herald, not long after Miss R passed her test... https://youtu.be/DB9-NU7iRkw?si=7rvM4b_UKvHtaAyY

Great job Neal and something different from all those prairie tank variants. If and when I can get back to The Bench of Bodge I have a 2-4-2T in the pipeline and seeing your County up and running is making me more determined to see it through.

I remember someone similar who demolished a telephone pole with a new Mazda RX doing just that. As often happens he was walking wounded, she died at the scene.

No. The forward gunner does it. 🤪 Fortunately, the car is only sixty inches wide across the bumpers, so "the controls are within comfortable reach" as the Autocar reviews used to say.😆

Such a confusing array of switches on the Triumph...

I rather like scary old electrical items, like this one which lurks in our living room. Rewired, cleaned and tested by my brother in law, a former aircraft engineer, it's absolutely fine. The components are so heavy duty, you'd have to look inside a modern military radio to find anything similar.

But not those bubble switches used on 80s and 90s Fords, replace rear fog light switch every MOT.

If you work with your hands as I do, you'd find that touch screens are an absolute pain in the backside, everything from your phone and tablets to cash machines and cars. They can't always sense fingers that are in any way dry or calloused, only soft and slightly damp ones. Like a tree frog with a desk job. As for touch screens on motorcycles, pull up somewhere safe, take off your gloves... You get the idea. I prefer clunky switches.

"Self-Drive Cars and You: A History Longer than You Think" https://velocetoday.com/self-drive-cars-and-you-a-history-longer-than-you-think/

Today's amusement was provided by the 20mph zone in the next village. As it's a twisting, narrow road with high stone retaining walls and various 300+ year old buildings directly on the road side which has been the site of numerous fatalities, I don't find it as ridiculous as most. There's signs, red bands of tarmac and big white 20 symbols on the road and recently humps have been added. We were driving along at twenty (about 22-23 on the clap-o-meter) and behind us was a P.O.S. old VW Polo driven by a potato head and behind that a large Mercedes. The Polo decided to overtake us and as he got alongside pulled a stupid face at Miss Riding Hood in the driver's seat. She didn't hit the horn or swear at him, just pointed calmly ahead at the rapidly approaching blind left hander. Cue panicked acceleration from the potato head as we and the Mercedes braked and waited for the bang. Lucky for him the Polo got around the corner and away. The memsahib didn't say a word, just made a gesture with her little finger which suggested that the Polo driver either has or possibly is a pitifully small male member...