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Morning all from Estuary-Land. Had a computer update last night so I set it in motion and then sat down to do some soduku puzzles. I had barely started the first puzzle when the computer 'pinged' indicating that the update was complete. Most updates usually take at least an hour, this one took less than ten minutes. Hoping to hear better news of Debs and any other ER's. Thats it for now, be back later.

Goodnight all.

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Evening all from Estuary-Land. Well the e-mail is a little faster now but still pedestrian. Not helped by 43 new e-mails since this morning. Most of them notifications of answers to a post I made on Facebook this morning asking who owned an original BMC Mini and for their stories, it looks like a lot of reading I've got to do. I hope we get more (and better) news of Debs soon.

It must have been earlier (1970's) then IIRC it was only two or three years old at the time on a K reg.

Morning all from Estuary-Land. A bit late this morning, nothing serious just laid on the bed after my bath this morning and went back to sleep. So I am bright and alert this morning, lets see how long it will last. There seems to be server issues with my Virgin Media e-mail this morning but RMweb is running normally. I can read (and delete most of) my e-mails but I cant look up old ones or answer them.

Best wishes to Debs and goodnight all.

I do believe that the fire started in a lorry load of lard.

At the Dagenham town show many years ago (1980's?) the local police were demonstrating how dangerous a 'ringed' car could be. They had a Triumph Dolomite on show that looked in very good condition but was a death trap. The documentation was from an accident write-off but the only part of that car was from the back seat rearwards, the roof and the floorpan were from two other cars, stolen or wrecked but no identification marks. The front end and the mechanicals were from a stolen car. As I said it would have been a death trap, apart from a few tap welds it was held together by filler, the windscreen pillars were virtually all filler. I was told that even if it had hit a bump even at a moderate speed it would have disintegrated.

Morning all from Estuary-Land. I slept well last night despite Eleanor and a wunny dose, I'll have to get some more tissues today as yesterday evening I went through half a box. Hope you get well soon Dom and the same for other ailing ER's.

I have a book on Provincial the gives details of the air cooled conversions. The only AEC's fitted with air cooled engines were single deck Regals not Regents, one of them was originally a four cylinder Regal 4. Another interesting member of the fleet was an AEC Matador double decker. Not the 4X4 artillery tractor that most of us are familiar with but an early 30's lorry chassis. At that time fuel companies started using passenger chassis for fuel tankers because of their low centre of gravity so AEC offered a special drop frame chassis for fuel tankers, the Matador. It didn't prove as successful as AEC had hoped and the model was dropped after a short production run. It is one of these that Provincial rebuilt as a double decker which included converting it from normal control.

A few of us old un's could probably put a name to that story.

I wonder if any VIN numbers will not match the documents or even worse turn out to be stolen cars? Not that I'm suggesting that the owners of such vehicles are in any way dishonest, they could well be the innocent victims of 'ringers'. Also if any of these vehicles are 'grey imports' where some of the documentation could well be doubtful it could cause further problems.

Goodnight all.

Yet people hang objects from their interior mirrors and seem to get away with it. Mind you when I see anything hanging from a rear view mirror I expect the car to be driven by a hen/cockwomble and I have not been disappointed yet.

Evening all from Estuary-Land. Happy birthday Mike, I was born 2 days and 45 minutes after the NHS came into being (assuming it was one minute after midnight on the 5th of July that it happened. There is a website that calculates how many babies were born in the NHS before ones own birthday and it calculated my figure as over 30,000! As it only calculated on the date only and not the time and as I was born in the early hours I put the day before my birthday in and it still came up with 21,000, That means that the birthrate in 1948 was10,000 a day. I think the creator of that website put a decimal point in the wrong place.

No reports either of the locals getting burns trying to remove the wheels.

Estimates in todays papers are about the £10 million mark. I did see in the news footage what looked like an older Discovery, apparently not the original cause of the fire though.

Morning all from Estuary-Land. Slept like a log last night but I was up pretty late to take a look at the 'Wolf Moon' which was providing enough light that the street lights superflous. Incidently a Wolf Moon is one of the rare occasions when two full moons occur in the same month. Not a lot else to report, be back later.

One or two were also adapted for ferry use though they were very little used if at all. Their purpose was to carry spares for ferry vehicles that had broken down on the continent as and when required.

Goodnight all.

The steel reinforcing has expanded with the heat and shattered the concrete.

It was reported on the 6 o'clock news that cars on the top of the building in the open air escaped serious damage, probably because the heat travelled across the ceilings of the lower floors. At least three dogs were rescued from those vehicles unscathed, I just hope there were no dogs or other animals on the lower floors. Apparently the cars on the roof will have to stay there until the building has been checked, it is so badly damaged that its in danger of collapse.