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The Moth Club held their annual rally last Saturday at Old Warden. https://www.flickr.com/photos/68685377@N04/albums/72157719819269073 G-AAZP by David Mylchreest, on Flickr G-ADIA by David Mylchreest, on Flickr G-AISA by David Mylchreest, on Flickr

I suppose that a cheaper way of introducing rapid pricing would be to incorporate a GPS system into the car and a daily upload after the car had been used. The privacy issues might be covered by an update to the Data Protection Act. I doubt very much if ANPR technology is appropriate. A flat rate tax based on the horse power of the motor would be a simpler way forward and cheap to implement.

Interesting that Hobby Holidays is on the list. Pre Covid they decided to give on shows.

The Derbyshire Melbourne used to have a military railway

There really isn't any reason to stop the road tax. It's essentially a tax on those who have a car, but it might be fairer if it was a tax on those who use the roads at peak periods, excepting that that is most of us at some time or other. So everyone will get pissed off, just as they are now! I bought my Jazz in part because it didn't attract road tax in 2010. Then along came George Osborn.

Very strange post.

Almost all are airworthy including the 1909 Bleriot which has a 1909 engine in it.

G-AISB was a late arrival on Saturday. G-ASPP by David Mylchreest, on Flickr G-AEBJ by David Mylchreest, on Flickr Some other shots from Saturday

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/sep/12/road-pricing-may-be-the-best-option-as-number-of-electric-cars-rises

Old Warden this afternoon

I really do object most strongly to you imputing my honesty. It isn't my honesty which is at issue here but the honesty of those who gloss over the practical issues of home charging. Having a detached garage is not an unusual experience for the motoring public. In fact it is a very common experience for householders of a pre-1960s property. There's more to home charging than meets the eye and I'm doubtful if it will be possible in our house, but it won't change the fact that EV are coming and that we are going to have to change from the traditional ICE vehicles.

No I'm not having a laugh, I was taking a cue from idd15's post quoted above. This post hasn't been contradicted. If, as you infer, the power supply can be a fused spur off the ring main then I don't see an issue. And it won't be necessary to dig a 70ft trench, an armoured cable down to the garage would be all that's needed. There is already a fused spur (actually with a circuit breaker) to power the water feature that has worked quite satisfactorily for the last 20 years, another for charging an EV shouldn't be a problem. Assuming, of course, that this is a viable solution, I'm not an electrician.

1863? Not sure such an instruction, any instruction, of that era would survive until 1923

Yeah, right! If it is necessary to run a separate high capacity cable from the distribution panel for fast charging then that seems me to rule out a lot of domestic housing from the fast charger market unless the householders are willing to spend a lot of money and put up with a lot of inconvenience while the work is being done. The glossy websites are not telling the whole truth!

I'm getting the impression that home charging is practical in a strictly limited number of settings .

Perhaps I should have made it clear that garage is a the bottom of a rear 70 ft garden. I don't see how a cable could be run from the distribution board without taking up expensive flooring. No chance!

Just curious about home charging issues https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/advice-electric-cars/how-charge-your-electric-car-home My garage is at the bottom of a 70' garden. Is it possible to have wall charger and charge a car in the garage.

I think it's the effect of a wide angle lens. This has been a great thread, enjoyed it.

That's a useful link!

Err no

I had only a very limited experience of designing castings, but the drawing office I worked in did not do any work on designing patterns. That was left to the pattern makers who designed their products in an entirely vernacular way and occasionally the drawing of the finished casting produced by the drawing office was returned with sketched out amendments intended to ease the casting process. Those blokes were experts, a draughtsman would be unwise to argue!

The radial engined aeroplane is an Avro Cadet G-ACZA https://siteapps.caa.co.uk/g-info/

It would be given at tech drawing classes

https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100437398 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soke_(legal)