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Reassembled front end - with re sprayed rad panel and apron (by a local guy). Pig of a job getting some of the nuts on the attachment to the n/s wing. Fitted a s/s exhaust whilst it was off the road too.

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There IS an alternative. Checkout the Road Traffic Acts (Para 43 .. or is it P.143?).

You can deposit £1,000,000 with the Attorney General, so effectively insuring yourself.

Barbara's incident with a supermarket articulated curtain-sider, on the M4, was such a case. They simply ignored all our mail. Luckily we had paid the extra £10 for Legal Cover.  LV found out what was going on.

LV sued the Perps, who paid up on the court house steps ... but it took time. Prompt refund increased premium, and re-instatement of full NCD.

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Glen I bet that was spectacular to someone watching.

As always I use an Android thickphone and can't get any images.

Hi,

Due to a case of "Its not what you know!" .... and telling his bosses to "get stuffed", my father finished the war building Halifax bombers. An amusing little tale. If anybody here didn't read it first time round ..... ?

Dad said the Halifax was a precision instrument, while the Lanc was a "lash up". But the Lanc was the better aircraft.

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I’m using Safari as I always do (though I’m in France at the moment) and I can’t see the pics either… 

We're working on it.

A few users can see the images, so they exist, what are they doing that's different to those who can't see the mages

 

I'm on a PC using Google Chrome if that helps.

A few years ago I was driving a fast service from Tonbridge to Ashford one summer evening. It’s a 26 mile journey at 100mph, in an almost totally straight line. Around halfway I heard the sound of engines and when I looked out to my left I saw that I was being followed down the line by a Lancaster flying at low level. They kept pace with the train for a minute or so, then pulled up and away with a tip of the wings and, I think, a wave (I was having to watch where I was going too 🤣).

It was quite a moment. 😃

When I mentioned it to others at work, one of the old boys said that aircrew (on both sides) had used the railway lines to help navigate during the war, and that the pilot had probably taken the opportunity of pacing a 100mph train as a challenge they’d unlikely to be able to repeat. He also pointed out there are an unusual amount of ponds along that bit of line, and that they’re all round, because they’re the result of luftwaffe crew jettisoning their unused bombs on the way home.

We're working on it.

A few users can see the images, so they exist, what are they doing that's different to those who can't see the mages

 

I also cannot see the photos.

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