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[lesapandre]

I have just bought a box of old fashioned motoring correspondence from a disused garage. 

This caught my eye as one of the items. From the heyday of Jaguar - the 'Brown's Lane Coventry' years. Even the correspondence was stylish.

[lesapandre]

More miscellaneous correspondence. Suffice to say RVE909 no longer exists. These early monocoque bodies by Pressed Steel were riddled with rust traps. Probably a MK1 - which in 3.4 litre form was a blisteringly quick car for the era.

"Times moving finger writes and moves on..."

[Spottedlaurel]

Have you had a look at the Panmure Road address on Streetview? Interesting car on the driveway, becoming gradually overgrown.

[lesapandre]

Brook Bond Picture Cards in with the cache of material.

Prescience of the coming future - streamlining, front and four wheel drive. 1968. The cards came in packets of tea.

[New POD]

26 minutes ago, lesapandre said:

More miscellaneous correspondence. Suffice to say RVE909 no longer exists. These early monocoque bodies by Pressed Steel were riddled with rust traps. Probably a MK1 - which in 3.4 lire form was a blisteringly quick car for the era.

"Times moving finger writes and moves on..."

Just looking at the BL spec 22. On my work laptop.   This was a group of specs called Group 22 Non-Metallic Materiel Specs. 

There seems to be about 100 different ones. 

They include specs for all fluids used from oil to antifreeze. 

There is one for "defining the performance requirements of a decorative finish on plastics where the decorative treatment is applied to the viewed face if the component, and the only protection that may be afforded to the decoration is a clear lacquer.  

There's one for conductive seam sealer 

One for carpets. 

Defining the requirements for bonding trim materials using heat. 

I can't find the one which relates to pipes and hoses as the file titles are typically 22we01 and I don't have a key. 

 

[beko1987]

43 minutes ago, lesapandre said:

More miscellaneous correspondence. Suffice to say RVE909 no longer exists. These early monocoque bodies by Pressed Steel were riddled with rust traps. Probably a MK1 - which in 3.4 lire form was a blisteringly quick car for the era.

"Times moving finger writes and moves on..."

Imagine ford sending that type of letter out when the early ecoboosts started exploding 😂

I imagine changing the split/perished hose wouldn't be as easy as it was in 1984 though 

[Lord Sterling]

20 hours ago, lesapandre said:

I have just bought a box of old fashioned motoring correspondence from a disused garage. 

This caught my eye as one of the items. From the heyday of Jaguar - the 'Brown's Lane Coventry' years. Even the correspondence was stylish.

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More miscellaneous correspondence. Suffice to say RVE909 no longer exists. These early monocoque bodies by Pressed Steel were riddled with rust traps. Probably a MK1 - which in 3.4 lire form was a blisteringly quick car for the era.

"Times moving finger writes and moves on..."

That's some amazing stuff there. I'm not usually interested in letters etc... but if ever you want to move them.....

[calebaaront]

My A6 passed it’s MOT this morning. Not bad for an ex taxi. Even the tester mentioned how clean it was for 218k miles. Service history is as thick as the bible. 

[Imhotep]

For about 6 weeks I’ve had bad hives on and off, and I mean -really- bad hives. All went tits up a couple of Sundays ago, face swelled and then my eye swelled shut too. Docs gave me some steroids for it, and I may have forgot to mention I had Gilbert’s Syndrome, so these tablets made me unwell and I ended up in hospital with this allergy. 
Immunologist thinks a food allergy and I need to keep a food diary. 
So far, the common denominator is egg. I fucking love egg. Weird as this is I’m actually quite down about the fact I’ve got to stop eating a food I really like. Fingers crossed it isn’t mind, but sadly, it looks likely.

I realise there’s bigger problems out there but it’s what’s bothering me right now.

TL;DR:

I like eggs. My body does not. 

[stuboy]

6 minutes ago, Imhotep said:

I like eggs. My body does not. 

i like sandwhichs........... ie bread but my stomach and bowels do not.......... 

[Wibble]

12 minutes ago, Imhotep said:

For about 6 weeks I’ve had bad hives on and off, and I mean -really- bad hives. All went tits up a couple of Sundays ago, face swelled and then my eye swelled shut too. Docs gave me some steroids for it, and I may have forgot to mention I had Gilbert’s Syndrome, so these tablets made me unwell and I ended up in hospital with this allergy. 
Immunologist thinks a food allergy and I need to keep a food diary. 
So far, the common denominator is egg. I fucking love egg. Weird as this is I’m actually quite down about the fact I’ve got to stop eating a food I really like. Fingers crossed it isn’t mind, but sadly, it looks likely.

I realise there’s bigger problems out there but it’s what’s bothering me right now.

TL;DR:

I like eggs. My body does not. 

Sorry for your problem. My dad and sister suffered with hives, it was milk. I hope you get sorted.

[Lord Sterling]

4 hours ago, Imhotep said:

For about 6 weeks I’ve had bad hives on and off, and I mean -really- bad hives. All went tits up a couple of Sundays ago, face swelled and then my eye swelled shut too. Docs gave me some steroids for it, and I may have forgot to mention I had Gilbert’s Syndrome, so these tablets made me unwell and I ended up in hospital with this allergy. 
Immunologist thinks a food allergy and I need to keep a food diary. 
So far, the common denominator is egg. I fucking love egg. Weird as this is I’m actually quite down about the fact I’ve got to stop eating a food I really like. Fingers crossed it isn’t mind, but sadly, it looks likely.

I realise there’s bigger problems out there but it’s what’s bothering me right now.

TL;DR:

I like eggs. My body does not. 

Chap, if you need owt, just shout. I'm down the road and will make time if you need anything.

Also, we all love @egg too. He's a good lad.

[comfortablynumb]

@Imhotep I've noticed that eggs affect me too, not as badly as you, but enough to be a problem.

Only thing I've found is that cooking them more, ie hardboiled for 15+ minutes, like they do in schools (or used to) it reduces the effect.

Not sure if it'll work on a case a severe as you tho 😕

[BorniteIdentity]

On 12/03/2025 at 11:25, lesapandre said:

More miscellaneous correspondence. Suffice to say RVE909 no longer exists. These early monocoque bodies by Pressed Steel were riddled with rust traps. Probably a MK1 - which in 3.4 litre form was a blisteringly quick car for the era.

"Times moving finger writes and moves on..."

This post has confirmed my desire to own a type-writer, and I'm now off to the wonderfully bonkers office supplies company in town to see if they have any (they usually do!).  Even if it gets used four times a year, they are fantastic.

[artdjones]

On 12/03/2025 at 11:34, Spottedlaurel said:

Have you had a look at the Panmure Road address on Streetview? Interesting car on the driveway, becoming gradually overgrown.

Strangely, the 32 Grove Park address where he lived before has a nice yellow W123 Mercedes parked outside.

[barefoot]

1 hour ago, BorniteIdentity said:

This post has confirmed my desire to own a type-writer, and I'm now off to the wonderfully bonkers office supplies company in town to see if they have any (they usually do!).  Even if it gets used four times a year, they are fantastic.

I guess that they're all right if you don't actually have to write anything...

[Spottedlaurel]

36 minutes ago, artdjones said:

Strangely, the 32 Grove Park address where he lived before has a nice yellow W123 Mercedes parked outside.

I noticed that too, a neat coincidence, but a fairly recent addition unlike the Audi which has been festering away throughout the Streetview era.

Somewhat sad looking at the decline of the Panmure Road house from 2008 to the most recent images with brambles and a broken pane of glass or two.

[Spottedlaurel]

1 hour ago, BorniteIdentity said:

This post has confirmed my desire to own a type-writer, and I'm now off to the wonderfully bonkers office supplies company in town to see if they have any (they usually do!).  Even if it gets used four times a year, they are fantastic.

And a telex machine?

[Split_Pin]

Got the new starter fitted to the Saab. It spins much much faster than before. I thought it was just a 9-5 thing but it was definitely on the way out, potential FTP averted!

I wanted it fixed because I need a big car for a basketball team run up to Dundee tomorrow.

[richardmorris]

[richardmorris]

[wesacosa]

New beer in my local pub just popped up on Facebook 🤣

 

[stuboy]

Just ordered some spark plugs for the mondeo... shame I could get a pack of 6...grrr

[Snake Charmer]

2 hours ago, richardmorris said:

 

2 hours ago, richardmorris said:

[barefoot]

26 minutes ago, Snake Charmer said:

 

The Champions.

Craig Stirling, Sharon McReady and...

[beko1987]

Just moved the final photos id ever taken of the Xsara off my phone and onto my storage server. Then moved the whole folder into the Past Cars folder 😢

 

Got the little confirmation slip for it from the DVLA the other day too

[Yoss]

2 hours ago, wesacosa said:

New beer in my local pub just popped up on Facebook 🤣

 

[hairnet]

3 hours ago, barefoot said:

The Champions.

Craig Stirling, Sharon McReady and...

only know him as william gaunt cant remember teh character

and alexandra bastedo

[richardmorris]

31 minutes ago, hairnet said:

only know him as william gaunt cant remember teh character

and alexandra bastedo

 

31 minutes ago, hairnet said:

only know him as william gaunt cant remember teh character

and alexandra bastedo

Richard Barrett Says imdb

[hairnet]

im not a cheat doh

also not old enuff and they have never repeated it enuff

no 2cv doh