Iain T Posted October 4, 2023 Report Share Posted October 4, 2023 I'm going this Sunday, a bit more activity than static show. If anyone fancies going let me know and whisper quietly the weather is sunny🌞😎 Vroom Vroom Iain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Lewis Posted October 5, 2023 Report Share Posted October 5, 2023 link Brooklands Museum - Autumn Motorsport Day Tickets | Sunday 8th October - 10:00 - 17:00 (seetickets.com) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain T Posted October 5, 2023 Author Report Share Posted October 5, 2023 Ta Pete my phone still doesn't like links or adding photos. It's most annoying but some might say a blessing! Iain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Lewis Posted October 5, 2023 Report Share Posted October 5, 2023 being in a land of dinosaurs its easy with old tech. fingerpushing buttonpressing , do you remeber that ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain T Posted October 5, 2023 Author Report Share Posted October 5, 2023 Oh yes old Heidenhain, Fanuc cnc controllers with lots of buttons and twiddle knobs😁 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteH Posted October 5, 2023 Report Share Posted October 5, 2023 Mechanical Typewriters? Portable. No wonder I got RSI. Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Lewis Posted October 5, 2023 Report Share Posted October 5, 2023 my Sister had a office services shop in Banbury where they repaired things like typewriters when the business closed we emptied the 3 story shop , found a dumb waiter under some cladding you could get 6 typewriters in it it went down like a rocket and spilled them out on the ground floor think we scrapped about 200 old machines is various states of old age but had to lie at the tip they began to ask where they all came from happy days pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteH Posted October 6, 2023 Report Share Posted October 6, 2023 11 hours ago, Pete Lewis said: my Sister had a office services shop in Banbury where they repaired things like typewriters when the business closed we emptied the 3 story shop , found a dumb waiter under some cladding you could get 6 typewriters in it it went down like a rocket and spilled them out on the ground floor think we scrapped about 200 old machines is various states of old age but had to lie at the tip they began to ask where they all came from happy days pete I had to type, often lengthy, reports on Pressure Vessel Examinations on a portable one, some of the "clients" required up to 5 copies, the effort needed to produce a legible bottom copy demanded very hard pressure on the keys. I was very grateful for my first P-C. which allowed me to print multiple copies, even if it was all set up in DOS, with less memory than my watch, and used 5" floppy disk`s for storage, before the advent of the Windows GUI. always wanted a MAC back then, but they where over twice the price up front. I still had that typewriter after I retired, no one asked for it, and to be fair I`d forgotton i still had it until we moved into the self-build and unpacked all the stuff from 3 years of storage. I think it went to a charity shop?. Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain T Posted October 6, 2023 Author Report Share Posted October 6, 2023 What a thread drift! Anyway I take it no one is joining Billy No Mates at Brooklands? I'm getting a complex, no one at Sheer either, fink of my mental 'elf! Iain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteH Posted October 7, 2023 Report Share Posted October 7, 2023 20 hours ago, Iain T said: What a thread drift! Anyway I take it no one is joining Billy No Mates at Brooklands? I'm getting a complex, no one at Sheer either, fink of my mental 'elf! Iain Enjoy, I think East Yorks, is just a tad too far for a Sunday out, we have a local gathering, if I get the passenger seat belt sorted we may just venture the few miles, the weather in your neck of the woods is predicted to be quite balmy, unlike up here where we are predicted have cloud coming and going☹️, Photo`s expected👍. Brooklands has quite a lot of "history", Back when I used to do examinations there for the BAC factory. There where 2 huge Bomb casings outside what had been Barnes Wallis` Office, "Tallboy" and "Grand Slam". His office was as he left it when he finished there. Got shown round by the site Engineer sometime in the early 80`s. Don`t get me started on the modern "mental elf". I always think of the guys saw action in WW2, they just "got on with it". Mind I suspect an awful lot drank more than was good the pubs where always full come 5-6pm. My take is that the country has had it`s resiliance bred out of it. If we started moaning, we where more likely to get chucked out onto the Football or Rugby field to work it off, than given counciling. Have a Good weekend!. Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain T Posted October 7, 2023 Author Report Share Posted October 7, 2023 (edited) Thanks Pete, I think West Yorks is a bit too far from Brooklands! I've been to Brooklands a couple of times but never to this event. I'll take some photos and post. The weather is predicted to be sunny and 24C so I might even give my knees a last outing! I've rarely been up your part of the country other than to buy machinery from a company near Halifax and one outside Manchester. I remember the drive across to Manchester was absolutely gorgeous. Rolling hills, drystone walls so nice we had to stop and admire the views and a drivers paradise. A bit different to me driving through London Sunday attempting to avoid the congestion charge area or the wife will give me hell.... Have a nice weekend everyone, if your in Scotland put your life jacket on. Iain Dark rum or beer always makes me feel better. A couple of glasses of Goslings Black Seal went down a treat last night. Edited October 7, 2023 by Iain T Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain T Posted October 8, 2023 Author Report Share Posted October 8, 2023 (edited) Excellent day out but I forgot going through Khan land is 20mph which was painful. Came back via M25! The Tallboy is still there and a unique Leyland special with a straight eight 7.3litre engine. The Napier Railton was also back from it's promotion outing. Edited October 8, 2023 by Iain T 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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