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DLax69
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So, no one likes them, then.
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It was still there in the mid 80’s. Used to go past it every day on the bus to school
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When I was in NZ I had one and it was bulletproof did everything I wanted especially for putting my 450 mud plugger on the back and going out into the bush.
I always thought you'd be safe inside a car during a thunderstorm. What with Mr Farraday and sitting on rubber insulators.
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I was under that impression too.
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Apparently you are safe as you are in the cage, but the electricity passing around the cage causes heat and can melt the cage itself. Tyres have metal in them and in the case of a thunderstorm, humidity around them, plus the rubber is so thin (relative to the amount of energy) that a lightning bolt has no problem going through it. I wouldn’t volunteer to test this though
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That’s Brands Hatch and a Cooper.
Bit of Googling and it’s probably at The Cooper Driving School https://www.alamy.com/1959-historic...f595335b8471a39665f86b04f575f974&searchtype=0
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Just try and sit in one comfortably if you are over 5ft 6"!
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Interesting he went on to Race a Jaguar MK9 will try and find some pictures.
I remember being able to drive into the station in the mid 80's and park my Triumph Dolomite between platforms 8 and 9, while waiting for the future Mrs Dr Eb to arrive from Exeter.
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Well a short Video - but never mind.
Every time Teesside features on TV be it in documentaries or entertainment there is always the industrial views of the area often to our detriment (we do have some lovely areas too!)
Anyway Redker (as it is locally known) Blast Furnace was demolished this morning an end to a bygone age
I worked there too for a while prior to going to the oil industry in North Sea
Quite a personal moment
Every time Teesside features on TV be it in documentaries or entertainment there is always the industrial views of the area often to our detriment (we do have some lovely areas too!)
Anyway Redker (as it is locally known) Blast Furnace was demolished this morning an end to a bygone age
I worked there too for a while prior to going to the oil industry in North Sea
Quite a personal moment
Redcar's landmark blast furnace demolished
The Teesside landmark that once produced 10,000 tonnes of iron a day is felled within seconds.
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I found this in Germany. **** knows what it is.
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Looks like a naked Mercedes C111, I had a toy one as a child
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Well a short Video - but never mind.
Every time Teesside features on TV be it in documentaries or entertainment there is always the industrial views of the area often to our detriment (we do have some lovely areas too!)
Anyway Redker (as it is locally known) Blast Furnace was demolished this morning an end to a bygone age
I worked there too for a while prior to going to the oil industry in North Sea
Quite a personal moment
Redcar's landmark blast furnace demolished
The Teesside landmark that once produced 10,000 tonnes of iron a day is felled within seconds.www.bbc.co.uk
Yet another industry we will never get back in the UK, as we slip ever further into becoming a nation of ‘service providers’. If you don’t make things, harness energy or genuinely create wealth, all you are doing is pushing sh1t around the drain hole!
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...or, as I heard it put over here (about the US), "a nation of people selling cheeseburgers to each other."
I was born in Pittsburgh, and lived in Detroit, so the industrial north (and smog and soot) were baked into me, quite literally. It's so wrong that Greedheads decided despoiling other shores was more cost-effective than investing in their home communities (and yes, I recognize that as a gross oversimplification, but trying to sum up environmental regulation, the cult of the CEO, and other BS in one line is rather tricky).
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Our Nail Bars and Eye lash decorators are fully booked until after Christmas though
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