Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[tikay]

Moribund as usual I see.

FFS Tony. Put some effort in.

Lol, go away. I got in trouble for fraternising with you on your bloody Diary!

[Lucky]

Moribund as usual I see.

FFS Tony. Put some effort in.

Another cliquey contribution!

[Lucky]

By dint of "MBWA", I used to tour the factory every single day.

i love doing this, great way to get people motivated to do great work.

We also used GOYA for managers who needed encouragement to practice MBWA

[tikay]

By dint of "MBWA", I used to tour the factory every single day.

i love doing this, great way to get people motivated to do great work.

We also used GOYA for managers who needed encouragement to practice MBWA

As in Get Off Your Arse?

[mulhuzz]

By dint of "MBWA", I used to tour the factory every single day.

i love doing this, great way to get people motivated to do great work.

We also used GOYA for managers who needed encouragement to practice MBWA

As in Get Off Your Arse?

one would assume so

[Dino]

I use to love these, the Railways had hundreds of them. Tiurning circle was smaller than a bike.

Restoring a scarab,if you have a spare hour to watch all 4 parts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y93t44AhsEQ

Oh wow, it even shows the turning circle to which I referred. (Only watched the linked one so far, time probs this morning).

Tom will love that too (suddenly I almost feel guilty saying that!), I'm a little older than him (RAISE), but I'm sure he well remembers them too. They were pretty much the universal method of road freight transport, rigids apart, & were, I guess, the forerunner of the artic as we know it.

They were incredibly basic inside - totally bare. Brag alert, I drove one once......just one seat, one dial, (speedo), no heater, no radio (as if!), nothing. They were the workhorse of the roads, thouigh, & I remember them with great affection.

Thank you for that find - keep them coming please.

Salvage Squad ran for 3 series and they restored about 30 pieces of classic machinery.
Amongst them were a steam lorry,a Blackpool coronation tram,a steam fairground ride,a watermill, a steam roller.
Most of these are on you tube just search for Salvage Squad.

[tikay]

I use to love these, the Railways had hundreds of them. Tiurning circle was smaller than a bike.

Restoring a scarab,if you have a spare hour to watch all 4 parts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y93t44AhsEQ

Oh wow, it even shows the turning circle to which I referred. (Only watched the linked one so far, time probs this morning).

Tom will love that too (suddenly I almost feel guilty saying that!), I'm a little older than him (RAISE), but I'm sure he well remembers them too. They were pretty much the universal method of road freight transport, rigids apart, & were, I guess, the forerunner of the artic as we know it.

They were incredibly basic inside - totally bare. Brag alert, I drove one once......just one seat, one dial, (speedo), no heater, no radio (as if!), nothing. They were the workhorse of the roads, thouigh, & I remember them with great affection.

Thank you for that find - keep them coming please.

Salvage Squad ran for 3 series and they restored about 30 pieces of classic machinery.
Amongst them were a steam lorry,a Blackpool coronation tram,a steam fairground ride,a watermill, a steam roller.
Most of these are on you tube just search for Salvage Squad.

Gotcha, thanks, bit short of time today & tomorrow, but I'll have a gander at the weekend.

[tikay]

Hi Tony,

Have a look here http://photojournalismlinks.com/ he gives a weekly round up of what is happening in the world of photography & photojournalism.

I've been involved in my own small way in this field for the past 20 years or so. Some of the best work has been produced in the past year.

We lost one of the best this year, Tim Hetherington.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Hetherington

A life cut short, but boy did he pack it all in. A friend & hero to so many.

Ooh, thank you, a veritable treasure trove there. These sort of things are always welcome here, but if you get any photos of toffee hammers or hacksaws, they are better suited to Tom's Diary.

As to Tim, so sad - only 40.

Did you see this, on his Wiki page?

Just days after Hetherington's death in Misrata, the Libyan city of Ajdabiya renamed its largest square after him. Anti-Gaddafi protesters also held a march to the newly renamed Tim Hetherington Square in his honour. "We have named the square after this hero and I now consider Tim as one of our martyrs," Al Jazeera quoted a Libyan surgeon in the city as saying

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I use to love these, the Railways had hundreds of them. Tiurning circle was smaller than a bike.

Restoring a scarab,if you have a spare hour to watch all 4 parts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y93t44AhsEQ

Oh wow, it even shows the turning circle to which I referred. (Only watched the linked one so far, time probs this morning).

Tom will love that too (suddenly I almost feel guilty saying that!), I'm a little older than him (RAISE), but I'm sure he well remembers them too. They were pretty much the universal method of road freight transport, rigids apart, & were, I guess, the forerunner of the artic as we know it.

They were incredibly basic inside - totally bare. Brag alert, I drove one once......just one seat, one dial, (speedo), no heater, no radio (as if!), nothing. They were the workhorse of the roads, thouigh, & I remember them with great affection.

Thank you for that find - keep them coming please.

On the "keep them coming" topic, (addressed to all), I'm still very keen for any "Best of 2011" Photo galleries when they start to arise. Their annual arrival, just before the New Year, but after Xmas, is one of the few reasons that, personally, I look forward to Xmas for. I know, go figure.

When I was a little boy, my dad used to weigh in at Tommy Elvin's scrapyard in Wath on Derne. They had a Scarab which they used in the yard as a shunter. I was fascinated by it, and in those glorious pre health & safety days, I was often allowed to ride alongside the driver as he trundled around.

The first chance I got, I crawled underneath investigate the mechanism behind that amazing turning circle. It works on exactly the same principle as a dodgem car. One powered front wheel with a 360° lock. You could turn the steering wheel around so far they the truck actually went backwards.

If you were to keep turning the wheel in the same direction. you could make the truck go forwards, backwards left or right.


Does that make sense to anyone?

[tikay]

Lovely piece Tom, terrific photo, too, thank you.

It was not my recollection, however, that they had those direction indicators on the roof - I think it was "hand signals" only. Maybe, to travel on the rosd to Shows legitimately, they were retro-fitted?

[tikay]

On the Radio 5 Traffic News @ 4.30pm today, they warned of a 2.5 hour delay to exit the Shopping Centre Car Park in Croydon.

R5 earlier reported one of their favoured "we are all gonna die, doom & gloom" pieces about the recession, in which they reported that some Retailers are starting their Boxing Day Sales this Saturday......

Bit of a black art these days, this retailing lark.

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There are several pictures of Scarabs with those indicators on the roof, which would suggest that they were a factory addition rather than a retro-fit

They were present on the one in this pic (Which I suspect is a later model) but they were fitted lower down.


Note the Wonderful J type Bedford in the background.

Click to see full-size image.

[Bad Beat]

 These might keep you going:

 http://blogs.reuters.com/fullfocus/2011/11/21/best-photos-of-the-year-2011/#a=1

[Bad Beat]

 These are good too:

 http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-most-powerful-photos-of-2011

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These might keep you going:

 http://blogs.reuters.com/fullfocus/2011/11/21/best-photos-of-the-year-2011/#a=1

These are excellent.