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.
Like a BMW Alpina or an M5 you mean.While you’ve obviously missed the last sentence.So which German saloon or coupe/convertible was it that was quicker ( and could handle better ) than a Series 3 E type or an XJ12 in 1972 let alone for the same price. .
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.
I was actually specifically referring to the 1970’s at least the early 1970’s before we joined the EU.So now it doesn’t even exist to be regarded as anything.The only reason it was ‘regarded’ as a ‘joke’ was becaue the bankers wanted it to be regarded as a joke because they’d invested their money in foreign industry.In which case no surprise the best way to get rid of the competition was to discredit their own country’s industry and it’s workforce.With the win win situation for the employers of creating a labour market in which supply exceeds demand.So we’ve got Thatcher’s promised land now look where it’s got the place.
welll lets think about it now … food on the table and mortgage paid or taking the moral high ground getting absolutely nothing !!!
lets face it most strike nowadays mainly on the grounds of more pay less work
Or more like the reality of 1970’s British engineering and exports given customers who weren’t afraid to spend a few bob.So what was the German competitor to that at the time although from experience those who built it were being paid less than their German counterparts at Faun.
matt f:
welll lets think about it now … food on the table and mortgage paid or taking the moral high ground getting absolutely nothing !!!
lets face it most strike nowadays mainly on the grounds of more pay less work
Most strikes through history have been about more pay for less work from the start point of the early 20th century which was actually an improvement in terms and conditions.Also in answer to price increases which mean more money required to buy less.No surprise that Maggie’s shop keeper mentality indoctrination of the population,involved the double standards of striking for more pay,for the same amount of work,being seen as bad,while retailers increasing their profits by putting up prices,is seen as being ok.However there aren’t many effective strikes ‘nowadays’ because the unions aren’t strong enough to win one and your logic will return things to how they were in the early 20th century so as they say be careful what you wish for.
shytalk:
I take it you didnt like history at school FB ? get the dvd one night in your cab called Brassed off , great film very funny very sad in parts…but will put you in the picture as will Billy Elliot.
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 will try and download it, thanks
I had a dream last night, no not a dream I think it was a nightmare. For some reason I was driving a lorry over the M62. I cant remember who for only that it had a tanker behind it. As I overtook a truck near birch services the driver wandered across two lanes. I drove around it and watched the driver. They were looking straight at me laughing, so I presumed someone recognised me or my lorry.
It wasn’t a dangerous move but a bit disconcerting. After the overtake the lorry was flashing lights and attempting to pass me again so I pulled into Birch. All in all there were three lorries pulled in, the one I overtook, the one behind and me. I went up to the other driver to see if he had seen what happened and he had, in fact I knew him from about 20 years ago so being brave and teamhanded I went to see what this other prat was playing at.
As I walked to the door the driver spoke to me and used my TNUK name. I said right because of what you have just done you either owe me a coffee or an explanation Coffee two sugars I said as I went to the toilet. When I came back there were three coffees but only the driver who I knew sat there. wheres matey gone? I asked.
To the bog, I thought with you. No I was alone, now either this was some ghostly experience or something odd was happening. The ladies toilet door opened and this driver walked across, smiling at us and introduced herself as Carryfast.
She looked just like Margaret Thatcher did 30 years ago
It is time to give up either drinking or using Trucknet or probably both. Bloody Weird if you ask me… I was so pleased to wake up early this morning before the alarm
Wheel Nut:
I had a dream last night, no not a dream I think it was a nightmare. For some reason I was driving a lorry over the M62. I cant remember who for only that it had a tanker behind it. As I overtook a truck near birch services the driver wandered across two lanes. I drove around it and watched the driver. They were looking straight at me laughing, so I presumed someone recognised me or my lorry.
It wasn’t a dangerous move but a bit disconcerting. After the overtake the lorry was flashing lights and attempting to pass me again so I pulled into Birch. All in all there were three lorries pulled in, the one I overtook, the one behind and me. I went up to the other driver to see if he had seen what happened and he had, in fact I knew him from about 20 years ago so being brave and teamhanded I went to see what this other prat was playing at.
As I walked to the door the driver spoke to me and used my TNUK name. I said right because of what you have just done you either owe me a coffee or an explanation Coffee two sugars I said as I went to the toilet. When I came back there were three coffees but only the driver who I knew sat there. wheres matey gone? I asked.
To the bog, I thought with you. No I was alone, now either this was some ghostly experience or something odd was happening. The ladies toilet door opened and this driver walked across, smiling at us and introduced herself as Carryfast.
She looked just like Margaret Thatcher did 30 years ago
It is time to give up either drinking or using Trucknet or probably both. Bloody Weird if you ask me… I was so pleased to wake up early this morning before the alarm
Maybe it’s a message from the ghosts of all the miners like the one portrayed in the film Brassed Off.In the next life she’ll be driving a wagon through a picket line with no one else on her side and they’ll be waiting for her on the picket line.
Maybe it’s a message from the ghosts of all the miners like the one portrayed in the film Brassed Off.In the next life she’ll be driving a wagon through a picket line with no one else on her side and they’ll be waiting for her on the picket line.
The only other person who goes on so much about Margaret Thatcher and Jaguars is John Prescot Hmm. Didn’t he spend some time in America with some cowboys too! I think he once went on a ship as well
Maybe it’s a message from the ghosts of all the miners like the one portrayed in the film Brassed Off.In the next life she’ll be driving a wagon through a picket line with no one else on her side and they’ll be waiting for her on the picket line.
The only other person who goes on so much about Margaret Thatcher and Jaguars is John Prescot Hmm. Didn’t he spend some time in America with some cowboys too! I think he once went on a ship as well[/quote
Blimey next you’ll be saying he was a trade unionist who didn’t support New Labour and Blair and Blair’s support of Thatcher’s policies and tore up his Labour Party membership in protest.
Howdens were trying to shut Runcorn for a few years. IIRC the distribution contract would have been up for renewal this year. Shame really, not a bad bunch of blokes up there.
Farnborough boy, why is the word Scab a northern thing? Everybody all over the country knows what it means. You are either badly educated or too young to know, and so you assume that it’s a northern thing…Always good to pigeon hole people
I liked the old Princess.
I remember my dad bringing a new one home
For young kids in teh back it was fantastic you felt higher up than the front and it lit up beautifully in the dark.
Big improvement on our ■■■■■■ anyway.
Looks like in the next election you’ll get two choices.
Tory or pretend Tory Maggie Milliband.
Think of me as Maggie, says Ed Miliband
Ed Miliband has likened himself to Margaret Thatcher as he tries to emulate her appeal as a “conviction politician” at the next general election.
Soldier z:
Ed Miliband has likened himself to Margaret Thatcher as he tries to emulate her appeal as a “conviction politician” at the next general election.
It’s ironic that he’s got a Marxist background and seems to respect Maggie’s ‘convictions’ when one of the main beneficiaries of her policies has been the Chinese Communist Party.Whereas things would probably have been a lot different if Shore had won the Labour leadership contest during the late 1970’s and there doesn’t seem to be anything in Miliband’s ideas which would match his.Which is what it would take to even have a chance of getting the country out of the economic zb up which Callaghan’s,Thatcher’s and Blair’s policies have put the place into.‘Democracy’ in this case seems to be all about an American president ( probably backed by the Chinese government ) telling the British electorate that they can’t leave the EU let alone the global free market economy.
degsy4wheels:
Farnborough boy, why is the word Scab a northern thing? Everybody all over the country knows what it means. You are either badly educated or too young to know, and so you assume that it’s a northern thing…Always good to pigeon hole people
Northern thing…pigeon hole. Do you still keep pigeons int’ garden?
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