Titan Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 (edited) This description of how an English Electric diesel starts from cold... "The individual cylinders all have a committee meeting to decide if they want to actually get up and do something. If this first stage is agreed then they have another meeting to decide who should be the first to fire, and a further meeting to decide in what order the other cylinders will join in! " Edited February 1, 2021 by Titan 5 1 1 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Hroth Posted February 1, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 1, 2021 (edited) 44 minutes ago, Titan said: This description of how an English Electric diesel starts from cold... "The individual cylinders all have a committee meeting to decide if they want to actually get up and do something. If this first stage is agreed then they have another meeting to decide who should be the first to fire, and a further meeting to decide in what order the other cylinders will join in! " Its a very entertaining process Edited February 1, 2021 by Hroth 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted February 1, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 1, 2021 2 hours ago, Titan said: This description of how an English Electric diesel starts from cold... "The individual cylinders all have a committee meeting to decide if they want to actually get up and do something. If this first stage is agreed then they have another meeting to decide who should be the first to fire, and a further meeting to decide in what order the other cylinders will join in! " I used to have a Ford Escort like that... 25 minutes ago, CameronL said: And the little scrote know how to use it better than you as well. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted February 1, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 1, 2021 Not seen this before, getting a transformer to Trawsfynydd 16 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Hroth Posted February 1, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 1, 2021 What a wonderful film! Not a hi-vis jacket in sight, a bloke with a pipe and no barriers stopping pedestrians squeezing past while the transformer is manoeuvered from the rails to the road, not to mention the kids watching within touching distance! And then there's the chap in the Inspection Saloon with the eye-wrenching checked jacket... btw what does that Transformer change into? 2 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted February 1, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 1, 2021 (edited) Is that the ex LMS transformer trolley 300000? BTW nice find Edited February 1, 2021 by melmerby Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CameronL Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 3 hours ago, Hroth said: What a wonderful film! Not a hi-vis jacket in sight, a bloke with a pipe and no barriers stopping pedestrians squeezing past while the transformer is manoeuvered from the rails to the road, not to mention the kids watching within touching distance! And then there's the chap in the Inspection Saloon with the eye-wrenching checked jacket... btw what does that Transformer change into? Not to mention at 0:35 when the transformer is being pulled slowly along someone ducks under the cable. If it had snapped it could have taken his head off. Oh happy days before H&S and risk assessments! May those who survived them remember them fondly. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Saunders Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 45 minutes ago, CameronL said: Not to mention at 0:35 when the transformer is being pulled slowly along someone ducks under the cable. If it had snapped it could have taken his head off. Oh happy days before H&S and risk assessments! May those who survived them remember them fondly. I am still concerned my Mother never issued me with a certificate of competency for tying my shoe laces but fortunately my employer has never asked for it ! 2 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
manna Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 G'Day Folks 1 1 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted February 1, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 1, 2021 That is a GREAT idea!!! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted February 1, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 1, 2021 10 hours ago, Titan said: This description of how an English Electric diesel starts from cold... "The individual cylinders all have a committee meeting to decide if they want to actually get up and do something. If this first stage is agreed then they have another meeting to decide who should be the first to fire, and a further meeting to decide in what order the other cylinders will join in! " In my bus preservation days, similar things were said about the AV590. Mike. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted February 1, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 1, 2021 Sent an email to my boss earlier asking where I could find a Covid test kit, my email server shows the first few lines of his reply........ The next word thankfully is drawer! 1 1 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chris p bacon Posted February 1, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 1, 2021 Must be using one of the Chinese anal ones..... 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Ramblin Rich Posted February 1, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 1, 2021 1 hour ago, chris p bacon said: Must be using one of the Chinese anal ones..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sidecar Racer Posted February 1, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 1, 2021 3 hours ago, manna said: G'Day Folks 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Rugd1022 Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 From 'Alas Smith & Jones', the Nazi Generals sketch.... And for a bit of utter silliness, the Python fish slapping sketch.... 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckymucklebackit Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 The late Great Rikki Fulton! Jim 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CameronL Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 20 hours ago, Mark Saunders said: I am still concerned my Mother never issued me with a certificate of competency for tying my shoe laces but fortunately my employer has never asked for it ! Back in the days when I worked in IT my company was looking for a computer support engineer. One of the CVs that came across my desk did not show a lot of expertise for the role. However, the sender obviously thought that quantity would overcome lack of quality because, in the "Education and Qualifications" section he included the following - "Mile Swimming Certificate" 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold SHMD Posted February 2, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 2, 2021 (edited) That's better than my one and only swimming certificate, which was for the herculean effort of not drowning for 25 yards! (I've also got a certificate from King Neptune, just for crossing the equator, but looking back at it I don't think that he was real!) Kev. Edited February 2, 2021 by SHMD 3 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted February 2, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 2, 2021 White Waltham Silver Jubilee Air Pageant 1977. Approx 2m44s a Super VC10 makes a VERY low level pass 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve1 Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 6 minutes ago, Metr0Land said: White Waltham Silver Jubilee Air Pageant 1977. Approx 2m44s a Super VC10 makes a VERY low level pass This bugs me. I lived just a few miles from White Waltham in 1977 and cannot, for the life of me, work out why I missed this event. steve 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted February 2, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 2, 2021 1 minute ago, steve1 said: This bugs me. I lived just a few miles from White Waltham in 1977 and cannot, for the life of me, work out why I missed this event. steve Me too, though I lived slightly further away in High Wycombe 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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