Halfords... we fit... erm, no you dont matey

Must have been partly but was originally put in late 1960`s by Krupps of Ge rmany to modularly build supertankers,super accurate digital controls, the n the early 70`s oil crisis hit, Loch Long had loads of redundant tankers m oored for years.

Shipbuilders trying to diversify, with less than great results :-(

Were offers to dismantle the crane and ship it as a working unit to Korea b ut politics dictated demolition, now 1000 tonne Goliath at Rosyth for assem bling modular aircraft carrier was delivered from Shanghai Zhenhua in 2011, should have just ordered the whole ship would have it by now ;-)

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Adam Aglionby
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I was driving through Basingstoke once when I saw the result of a collision between a mobile crane and a bridge.

The crane was maybe 10M long, and the top had hit the bridge. All the mass being at the bottom it had kept going, pivoting neatly around the jib until the back of the body was resting on the ground and all three axles were off the ground. It was at about a 45 degree angle.

I have no idea how the driver got down.

Andy

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Vir Campestris

It would be a monumental oversight if it weren't.

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Johny B Good

I think it's just simply a non sequitur either placed deliberately by polygonum himself or some adware he's blithely unaware of.

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Johny B Good

You f***ed the attribution up, If I'd examined the quoted text more closely, I'd have referred to C J Dixon, not polygonum.

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Johny B Good

s'alright!

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polygonum

Not only did you screw up the attribution, you don't seem to be familiar with a genus which is looking at its most colourful right now.

Chris

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Chris J Dixon

Sorry for that error but it was TNP who started it. I should have double checked but by the time I realised my error, it was too late to retract it so had to dash off a seperate correction.

I did wonder whether you were referring to an actual plant or a brand of PC (Acer, though famed for their amazing laptops[1], also do a few desktop PC models as well).

According to wikipedia:

"Acer /'e?s?r/[2] is a genus of trees or shrubs commonly known as maple."

So that's solved the meaning of that one (Oh the power of "Branding"!).

[1] I have an Acer Aspire 3660, purchased from our local Tesco's Superstore almost 8 years ago (for 3 pence shy of 400 quid) sat atop of one of the office filing cabinets where it has spent 99% of its time running 24/7 doing PVR duty to resolve scheduling conflicts on the main PC.

I suppose it could have developed HDD faults by now if it weren't for the timely HDD upgrades (80 to 160 to 250 GB IDE laptop drives). The only other hardware upgrade being a boost from 512 to 1536 MB of ram within a month or so of purchase (oh, and not forgetting the cardbus GB ethernet adapter a few years back to boost the network data transfer rates by a poxy 40 odd percent on the built in Fast Ethernet adapter).

The OS upgrade (from winXP MCE edition to windows 2000 professional) was done within a week of its purchase - winXP is _that_ bad! I've never regretted the OS upgrade, not even for a millisecond. :-)

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Johny B Good

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