Six Cylinders Motoring Notes

[hairnet]

1 hour ago, richardmorris said:

I don’t know what was on the boot carpet I was kneeling on

tears of a frenchman

[Noel Tidybeard]

3 hours ago, richardmorris said:

I wish! Clare expects her minions to work hard in the full sun !

EFA

[richardmorris]

I will try not to derail the thread too much, but Chris wanted information on the semaphore tower I visited on a walk this morning. 
there were 14 plots of land bought ( 15 days after the battle of Waterloo) between 5 and 9 miles apart depending on the topography. Chatley Heath was by far the largest built and most were two storey. It’s 9miles as the signal is sent / crow flies to the admiralty. And 75 miles to Portsmouth.

it was fully operational in 1822 and messages took 15 mins to reach Portsmouth. Decommissioning was in 1847 after the railways and invention of the electric telegraph.

[richardmorris]

The next one down the line is now a private house in Guildford called semaphore house unsurprisingly.

[Six-cylinder]

21 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

I will try not to derail the thread too much, but Chris wanted information on the semaphore tower I visited on a walk this morning. 
there were 14 plots of land bought ( 15 days after the battle of Waterloo) between 5 and 9 miles apart depending on the topography. Chatley Heath was by far the largest built and most were two storey. It’s 9miles as the signal is sent / crow flies to the admiralty. And 75 miles to Portsmouth.

it was fully operational in 1822 and messages took 15 mins to reach Portsmouth. Decommissioning was in 1847 after the railways and invention of the electric telegraph.

What form did the message take?

[richardmorris]

16 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

What form did the message take?

Home Riggs popham ship to ship code . England expects etc.

moveable arms on a mast signalling letters of the alphabet. Controlled by a gear system from inside the living quarters, with a sort of clock face indicating what the arms 100ft up were showing

[richardmorris]

[richardmorris]

[Six-cylinder]

Andyrew and I went to a little local car gathering last night.

[Six-cylinder]

A bit of evening FoD tonight with @Andyrew and @Slowsilver

Fun with the DS in the hay field.

Alternator swap for Black Beauty.  

[catsinthewelder]

^Is that Andy just after he dropped an alternator on his foot?

[Andyrew]

5 minutes ago, catsinthewelder said:

^Is that Andy just after he dropped an alternator on his foot?

I do have that 'contemplating my life choices' expression going on.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

On 6/28/2023 at 9:11 AM, Six-cylinder said:

Andyrew and I went to a little local car gathering last night.

That's the perfect looking mk3 Spitfire right there. Lovely.

[Six-cylinder]

I have to thank @Zelandeth for doing the honours last night and collecting my Citroen BX from Hitchin on a Friday afternoon.

It had been to the  Chevronic Center, Citroen specialist to have its heater cables made to work, handbrake cables replaced and a rear hydraulic leak cured.

Now home in fine fettle it would be an obvious candidate for Shitefest 2024.

[hairnet]

*cries into dauphinoise

[puddlethumper]

1 hour ago, Six-cylinder said:

I have to thank @Zelandeth for doing the honours last night and collecting my Citroen BX from Hitchin on a Friday afternoon.

It had been to the  Chevronic Center, Citroen specialist to have its heater cables made to work, handbrake cables replaced and a rear hydraulic leak cured.

Now home in fine fettle it would be an obvious candidate for Shitefest 2024.

That is one good lookin BX. Nice.

[Six-cylinder]

Back to the DS today for a small classic car show at Buckingham Rugby club music and beer festival. 

[timolloyd]

What’s the red car in the foreground? Is it the soft top version of the infamous Pistonheads car?

[High Jetter]

Elva Courier, apparently

[High Jetter]

Now I'm at my PC, I did a search and remembered I'd heard about these years ago, when working at a dealership in Bexhill & Hastings. Moar info here: https://www.elva.com/elva-history.html

[Six-cylinder]

1 hour ago, High Jetter said:

Elva Courier, apparently

Yes Elva Courier, I have a friend who used to race one.

He had an off once and nearly drowned!

[richardmorris]

7 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

Yes Elva Courier, I have a friend who used to race one.

He had an off once and nearly drowned!

Took it swimming as well!

[Six-cylinder]

When should we have the next FoD?

I would like to organise a couple more weekends at FoD for 2023, when would you like them?

I am available:

 29/30th July

12/13 August

26/27/28 August

2/3 September

 

If the weather is with us for one of the weekends and we have enough man power I would like to take all our running cars to the FoD along with those already at the FoD for a photo shoot.

The target would be 30 working and a few towed into line. Anybody volunteer to plan, organise and be the main camera man?

[brownnova]

First one is FOTU and last one is RADWood at Bicester heritage which might limit attendance.

Having said that, I’m not booked for FOTU and that is the only date I can do off that list 😭

[chaseracer]

2CV 24hr, bank holiday weekend.  Otherwise, any of those! 😁

[Six-cylinder]

2 minutes ago, brownnova said:

First one is FOTU and last one is RADWood at Bicester heritage which might limit attendance.

Having said that, I’m not booked for FOTU and that is the only date I can do off that list 😭

I think it would be good to not clash with FOTU, but RADWood I think would give somewhere to camp as we are only 13 miles away.

[brownnova]

1 minute ago, Six-cylinder said:

I think it would be good to not clash with FOTU, but RADWood I think would give somewhere to camp as we are only 13 miles away.

Might be in for that one then! 

[brownnova]

4 minutes ago, chaseracer said:

2CV 24hr, bank holiday weekend.  Otherwise, any of those! 😁

Hope you’re visiting the Wirral for registers day Mr Chaseracer! 

[chaseracer]

13 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

I think it would be good to not clash with FOTU, but RADWood I think would give somewhere to camp as we are only 13 miles away.

Multiple dates possible?

[AnthonyG]

Probably won’t be able to do the bank holiday in August due to family stuff but the other dates look OK for me.