I doubt a British leyland car will reach 155mph.
FarnboroughBoy11:
I doubt a British leyland car will reach 155mph.
It all depends on your definition of a British Leyland car.If you put a later,modified version,of what was a BL/Jaguar designed motor,providing around 350 bhp and 400 lbs/ft of torque and 5 speed manual box,into an old 1984 XJ,I’d call that a British Leyland car that will reach more than 155 mph.Although just the standard car was fast enough to sort out any of it’s standard German opposition when it was introduced in the early 1970’s. 
cliffton 27:
peterm:
Wot woz the question ?in a nutshell a firm needs drivers in mcr due to possible stirke thatcher was a ■■■■■ the whole 80s were a ■■■■■
Fixed that.
Carryfast:
providing around 350 bhp and 400 lbs/ft of torque and 5 speed manual box,into an old 1984 XJ,I’d call that a British Leyland car that will reach more than 155 mph.
And how many body panels are still attached to the car after that little jaunt?
FarnboroughBoy11:
I quite enjoyed history but we had a choice to make, it was either geography or history, we couldn’t do both and I chose geography.I chose history.
We should team up FB, you could tell me how to get there, I could tell you why we went there!
cliffton 27:
peterm:
Wot woz the question ?in a nutshell a firm needs drivers in mcr due to possible stirke thatcher was a ■■■■■ british cars were a ■■■■■ the whole 70s n 80s were a ■■■■■ o n carryfast has a car as fast as a f1 fighter jet
Quality
Stan
Carryfast:
FarnboroughBoy11:
I doubt a British leyland car will reach 155mph.It all depends on your definition of a British Leyland car.If you put a later,modified version,of what was a BL/Jaguar designed motor,providing around 350 bhp and 400 lbs/ft of torque and 5 speed manual box,into an old 1984 XJ,I’d call that a British Leyland car that will reach more than 155 mph.Although just the standard car was fast enough to sort out any of it’s standard German opposition when it was introduced in the early 1970’s.
its a bit like triggers broom
Chas:
The only way out of a recession is to increase public spending.
Dear me. 
Stan
here’s the job the OP asked about…
the local newspaper says that the decision to relocate Howdens Joinery from Ditton in Widnes was taken in late August or Early September 2012 – the decision was taken on financial grounds and for no other reason. it states that DHL who ran the contrat which included Drivers, FLT operators and Warehouse staff performed the contract with an unblemished record and that Howdens Joinery were very satisfied with the way the contract was run…
state of play at the moment is that the move is going ahead no matter what so if you can get in there and get some loads then you won’t be a scab as the company refuses point blank to recognise the union - it’s a privately run operation…
The job the agency want to hire drivers for i bleive is to empty the current warehouse stock and put in the new “yet to be finished” facility in Howden - taking the company back to it’s geographical roots…
i live not too far from the Howden site
Stanley Knife:
Chas:
The only way out of a recession is to increase public spending.Dear me.
Stan
What’s the problem just print some more money.
Carryfast:
FarnboroughBoy11:
I doubt a British leyland car will reach 155mph.It all depends on your definition of a British Leyland car.If you put a later,modified version,of what was a BL/Jaguar designed motor,providing around 350 bhp and 400 lbs/ft of torque and 5 speed manual box,into an old 1984 XJ,I’d call that a British Leyland car that will reach more than 155 mph.Although just the standard car was fast enough to sort out any of it’s standard German opposition when it was introduced in the early 1970’s.
Why would you do that? 
kr79:
Stanley Knife:
Dear me.Stan
What’s the problem just print some more money.
Because after all, money is just a number on a piece of paper . . . .
No, CREDIT is a number. Money is what most people don’t have - a tender that is accepted as hard cash everywhere. Even trying to tout Gold Coins will get you arrested in some parts of the world (or robbed!). People also forget that in the 1930’s depression, those who hoarded gold ahead of it were punished by the effective “compulsory purchase” of their already bought gold at well below fair price. You needed to have left the country with your gold to escape this, but in the 1930’s people were emmigrating TO America, rather than from it - thanks to the political upheavals in Europe at the time.
The world still exists on a dollar standard, although efforts to make the Euro imitate the US$ abound.
How else can you explain why despite western central banks printing currency like it’s going out of fashion, the value of the currency credit printed upon it doesn’t seem to fall significantly?
The Chinese lower the value of their currency as fast as we try to devalue our western ones.
Net result? - Treading water. Debts remain payable in hard cash, bringing hardship to millions. Wages are payable in credit, which for most people is dwindling away nowdays. Ten years ago someone on £30k could buy a house, and get a flash car on a seperate loan at the same time.
Today, you’re lucky to have a job that PAYS £30k. Even with it, you’re unlikely to get the affordable credit needed to buy that same house and car even though it’s ten year’s on now… 
A steady income is the most valuable asset to hold these days. This means a steady job for a huge firm with golden parachue deals that guarantee the firm making a big payoff, should the job disappear before the contract end.
Once the rest of society sees others with such jobs, they’ll protest, and drag those workers down to their own level, since there’s no chance of the protester workers getting upto the society job level!
Winseer:
The world still exists on a dollar standard, although efforts to make the Euro imitate the US$ abound.
How else can you explain why despite western central banks printing currency like it’s going out of fashion, the value of the currency credit printed upon it doesn’t seem to fall significantly?
The value of at least the pound is falling significantly.It’s just that it’s hidden by the resulting price increases being called ‘above the rate of inflation’.So we’ve got a ‘real’ rate of inflation which reflects the devaluing pound and then we’ve got the false one which the government is using to cover up the rate at which the currency is dropping and of course on which to base wage increases.If,that is,there are any wage increases at all which is the result of years of manipulation of the labour market caused by de industrialisation and immigration to create an excess of supply over demand in the labour market.The effect of which means that workers are being paid in an ever more worthless currency which buys less and less with no union powers to keep wage levels in line with the devaluing currency/increasing rate of inflation.
Which is effectively a form of theft by the bank of england of money/wages which belongs to the population and it’s workforce in the case of those who are employed.Or in the case of those who are unemployed by calling what is ‘supposed to be’ the national income protection insurance scheme ‘welfare’ and those who claim it ‘scroungers’ which keeps that well below the real level of inflation too.
So while money is being printed,with all the drawbacks that causes in the form of inflation and devaluation,here in the domestic economy,none of that printed money finds it’s way into the pockets of the nation to keep incomes in line with the resulting devaluation/inflation.It just ends up in the hands of the Chinese Communist Party to pay our ‘debts’ for a load of stuff which we could be making for ourselves ( obviously with some kickbacks to the bankers to keep their own ‘investements’ in line with the real rate of inflation with some on top ) and then the Chinese effectively launder that,in reality,devalued,money by pretending it’s worth more than it is by using that false headline rate of inflation and overvaluation to exchange it for raw materials and goods for themsleves and to keep their exports going.It’s the biggest scam in history and even the union leadership we have left can’t,or don’t want to,see it.
Carryfast:
Depends on which version of history you want to believe.As I remember it the economy was doing a lot better under a system in which we weren’t a net importer of manufactured goods and coal and gas and with strong unions keeping wages ahead of prices.Than we’ve got now since Maggie got what she wanted.
Can I have a pair of those rose tinted glasses? You obviously forgot all about the 1970’s where British manufacturing was regarded as a joke.
foxy stars:
here’s the job the OP asked about…the local newspaper says that the decision to relocate Howdens Joinery from Ditton in Widnes was taken in late August or Early September 2012 – the decision was taken on financial grounds and for no other reason. it states that DHL who ran the contrat which included Drivers, FLT operators and Warehouse staff performed the contract with an unblemished record and that Howdens Joinery were very satisfied with the way the contract was run…
I’ve done a lot of work for the Howden site as far back as when it was Hygena and then Howdens Joinery. Keeping the Runcorn “Schreiber” factory open was a joke. Every night and every day drivers from Howden run chipboard over to the Runcorn factory where they’d turn it into cabinet, drawer and wardrobe carcasses and we’d bring trailers with the carcasses in back to Howden. Utter madness especially when the Howden site has a couple of factories sat doing nothing.
The Runcorn site also did some distribution over that side of the country of both stuff produced there and also stuff dragged over from Howden but nothing that couldn’t be done from Howden itself or any of the other DHL depots we used to run trailers out to.
It was inevitable that Runcorn was going to face the chop at some point.
the maoster:
FarnboroughBoy11:
I quite enjoyed history but we had a choice to make, it was either geography or history, we couldn’t do both and I chose geography.I chose history.
We should team up FB, you could tell me how to get there, I could tell you why we went there!
:) all we need now is someone who chose Spanish language and we could go on a jolly!!!
d4c24a:
Carryfast:
FarnboroughBoy11:
I doubt a British leyland car will reach 155mph.It all depends on your definition of a British Leyland car.If you put a later,modified version,of what was a BL/Jaguar designed motor,providing around 350 bhp and 400 lbs/ft of torque and 5 speed manual box,into an old 1984 XJ,I’d call that a British Leyland car that will reach more than 155 mph.Although just the standard car was fast enough to sort out any of it’s standard German opposition when it was introduced in the early 1970’s.
its a bit like triggers broom
Carryfast:
FarnboroughBoy11:
I doubt a British leyland car will reach 155mph.It all depends on your definition of a British Leyland car.If you put a later,modified version,of what was a BL/Jaguar designed motor,providing around 350 bhp and 400 lbs/ft of torque and 5 speed manual box,into an old 1984 XJ,I’d call that a British Leyland car that will reach more than 155 mph.Although just the standard car was fast enough to sort out any of it’s standard German opposition when it was introduced in the early 1970’s.
I wouldn’t. I’m talking about a car that comes straight off the line from the factory.
ref all those 155mph bl motors,
i was not aware that bl invented the flux capacitor.
probably the only way a bl would go beyond 88mph. lol.