The Morris battery. Again.

[Harry Bloomfield]

whisky-dave pretended :

Well they are almost digital, on or off lol

[Jimmy Wilkinson Knife]

Appropriate is subjective. I had teachers that yelled, teachers that struck with metre sticks, and one who regretted yelling when a boy punched him in the stomach sending him sprawling across the floor.

[Max Demian]

Etymologically it always is.

[whisky-dave]

The word `oval' comes from the Latin word for egg.

[tabbypurr]

am completely

We didn't all survive.

NT

[Bob Eager]

See the picture at the link I posted. It was under the bonnet, on the opposite side to the fan.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Ah - just looked at it. However it does beg the question if the engine end plate and clutch cover etc with the new transfer gears had the same sort of space available. I'd have thought boot space on such a small cheap car more important than weight distribution for handling.

[Bill Wright]

I used to find assembly amusing. First we would be told about Christian forgiveness, then the names of those who must report to the headmaster's office would be read out. I never imagined that they would be there so he could forgive them...

My life was changed for ever one day in 1964. I wanted to leave school and go to a tech college, in order to eventually get a job in electronics or broadcast. In order to do this I needed documentation from the school head. I knew he would be displeased because if I left it would be one less in the GCE class, of which he was very proud. I knocked and waited, but there was no reply. Then from within I heard the sounds of an almighty beating. The repeated swish-crack of the Head's notorious cane; shrieks of pain, sobs, pleas for mercy. My nerve was gone and I slunk away. I never returned to that door. I didn't transfer to the tech. I stayed on at school, and eventually became a teacher. Had I approached the Head's door at any other time I would had had a different life thereafter.

Bill

[Bill Wright]

What's butterflies got to do with it?

Bill

PS please realise this is a joke

[Bill Wright]

Well f*ck me drunk.

Bill

[Bill Wright]

"The first version of the Hornby Metropolitan loco had an additional level of realism in that - just like the real thing - it seemed to offer the possibility of accidentally electrocuting yourself if you touched the rails. The "HV" ("High Voltage") model's motor ran off one hundred and ten Volts AC current, which was obtained from the 240V mains power by passing the power through a lightbulb before it passed through the speed controller and reached the rails."

Can't see the lightbulb idea working very well. It certainly wouldn't produce a regulated 110V supply.

Bill

[Bill Wright]

Good thing too. The problem nowadays is that the dim-witted are protected from their own stupidity, so they go on to breed. Since intelligence is largely inherited this is preventing the forward progress of the species.

Bill

[dennis]

By not being able to a££ord to buy them.

Much like rich kids these days kill themselves in helicopter crashes while you survive because you can't a££ord one.

It can't be a significant effect though or evolution would remove the rich from the gene pool.

[tabbypurr]

it would give 240v any time the train wasn't sat on the track!

NT

[tabbypurr]

Today's conditions do largely stop the weeding out of the gene pool, though I doubt anyone involved would see that as a positive thing. All kids do stupid things, it doesn't make everyone stupid adults though.

NT

[Bob Eager]

There was only one extra gear, in a vertical plane, so I don't think it made a lot of difference. The battery was still under the bonnet after the engine reversal - I just don't have a picture of it. See my earlier quote from one of the decision makers - he was really quite worried about the rear wheel lockup problem.

[tony sayer]

We had a hard barsteward as a head teacher he was three miles high and around two wide any implement was used to wallop you with, being sent to stand outside his door was not the place to be. If that wasn't bad enough he smoked like a blast furnace and the stench in there was enough to gas you as well.

BUT..

We learnt to behave and not to repeat our misdemeanours thats one good thing!..

[tony sayer]

In article , Dave Plowman (News) scribeth thus

Yes remember this now the mini vans i was rather fond of used the have the exhaust descend down the back of the block at the rear. There was a simple stabiliser bar that had a couple of rubber bushes therein that used to deteriorate so that should you drop the clutch or be less so with it the engine would jerk fore and aft and snap the clamp joint and emit exhaust fumes and be rather loud about it very poor bit of design that:(

[Marland]

Don?t think regulation needed to be too accurate ,as you will know at that stage the voltage and type of current varied widely around the country. The resistance box was supplied without a lamp as the intention was you installed one that was for the voltage in your area, the lamps should have been carbon. filament.

Hornby were not alone, this article describes the very similar system by Marklin at the same period.

GH

[Jimmy Wilkinson Knife]

So you're not scarred for life as the modern-day moaners say happens with corporal punishment? You mean to say he hasn't screwed up your life and filled you with hatred, making you need to see a psychiatrist every week?