Snow.

[proactive]

Mobility? You know, the old 3wheelers.

 

[Glam]

I used work at the FilleyBrooks CO-OP in Stone, where Target windows is now. Every week without fail a bloke would chug up in one of these to buy a 4 pack of Strongbow. He stunk to high heaven of beer, cigarettes and piss. And our manager would send 1 of us out to take his money, because in his words, ''It's still a sale''.

 

[Gramaisc]

They must have been the most unreliable thing ever on the road, if you were really lucky it would fail to start whilst you were still at home.

There were a lot of similar looking variations - you could get one with an AC badge on it, which was a bit beyond a joke, although it was allegedly possible to get 80mph out of one, if you had the nerves, and the ear protection.



I've just looked out and it's quite foggy here now.

 

[proactive]

They must have been the most unreliable thing ever on the road, if you were really lucky it would fail to start whilst you were still at home.

There were a lot of similar looking variations - you could get one with an AC badge on it, which was a bit beyond a joke, although it was allegedly possible to get 80mph out of one, if you had the nerves, and the ear protection.



I've just looked out and it's quite foggy here now.

They were what AC became.

Not exactly a fitting epitaph.

 

[Gramaisc]

They were what AC became.

Not exactly a fitting epitaph.

They were a truly atrocious machine, symbolic of the country's decline. They were still being made in the late 1970s. They were as expensive as a real car and more expensive to run. I had intermittent contact with one and was horrified by it - it was like a school project that had been built in field, by kids who had never been in a car.

 

[proactive]

They were a truly atrocious machine, symbolic of the country's decline. They were still being made in the late 1970s. They were as expensive as a real car and more expensive to run. I had intermittent contact with one and was horrified by it - it was like a school project that had been built in field, by kids who had never been in a car.

I always assumed that they were given out by the state, as early Motability products, in the hope that they would kill many of their owners in accidents and thus lower the social security budged.

I further assume that the scrappage of all of them owned by the government was an attempt to protect HMG from retrospective legal action.

 

[Gramaisc]

Having had a go in one, you would have to be fairly brave to go fast enough to kill yourself - if you could get it to start.

Imagine one in the snow.......

 

[proactive]

Having had a go in one, you would have to be fairly brave to go fast enough to kill yourself - if you could get it to start.

I would have thought stability, at any speed, would have been somewhat suspect.

Like a Reliant Robin without the safety equipment.

 

[Gramaisc]

The Reliant was a massive leap forward - I have never been in anything anywhere near as bad. For the same sort of money, they could have had something based on a Morris Minor, or similar, but they seemed determined that it should be a single seater, for some sort of begrudging "OK, here's a car, but, it'll be of no actual use to you" attitude.

You could understand the initial one being done as a lash-up for the benefit of his mate, but producing so many and for so long is just inexcusable.

 

[staffordjas]

Can't imagine how the bubble car used to get around years ago , when we seemed to have more snow than we've had for a few years...

www.google.co.uk/search?q=bubble+car&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=DypfPoq7LbX2GM%253A%252C2qT1PgbAwwPrWM%252C_&usg=__r4INL_3CXce7vDrNYlSRz9-H04g%3D&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwij8MuC4o_YAhWNJlAKHZZSBwsQ9QEIKzAA#imgrc=DypfPoq7LbX2GM:

 

[bunique]

Oh No, Although with these conditions maybe for the best with people ending up taking barriers etc out. Any idea when it will be booked back in for?

Mid-Feb. When we are also prone to ice and snow

 

[bunique]

You are wrong. BMW drivers tend to be older, more experienced and more confident drivers. They are more affluent high quality people so set and meet very high standards. They are not prepared to accept the incompetence of other drivers who do not meet their own high standards.
I am an adviser to the Institute of advanced motorists and it is certainly the case that BMW drivers are better than most.

This is some top notch trolling right here.

 

[basil]

I used work at the FilleyBrooks CO-OP in Stone, where Target windows is now. Every week without fail a bloke would chug up in one of these to buy a 4 pack of Strongbow. He stunk to high heaven of beer, cigarettes and piss. And our manager would send 1 of us out to take his money, because in his words, ''It's still a sale''.

Never had David down as a cider drinker......

 

[Trumpet]

Having had a go in one, you would have to be fairly brave to go fast enough to kill yourself - if you could get it to start.

Imagine one in the snow.......

Many years ago Stirling Moss drove one and afterwards claimed it was the scariest drive of his life.

 

[Trumpet]

What a load of fecking shite.
(There, you've got me. I fed the farking troll)

He's not a troll, he's a very naughty boy.

 

[Glam]

I used work at the FilleyBrooks CO-OP in Stone, where Target windows is now. Every week without fail a bloke would chug up in one of these to buy a 4 pack of Strongbow. He stunk to high heaven of beer, cigarettes and piss. And our manager would send 1 of us out to take his money, because in his words, ''It's still a sale''.

Never had David down as a cider drinker......

You can go right off some people x

 

[Laurie61]

I am assuming snow, earlier this week, caused a bin collection delay as my green bin was not emptied Friday.

 

[Gramaisc]

I am assuming snow, earlier this week, caused a bin collection delay as my green bin was not emptied Friday.

The general rule is to leave it out and it will get done as conditions/availability allow.

I put one out in Ranton on Wednesday night, which didn't get emptied on Thursday, as usual, but I see that it is empty now. People out in Yokelsville and those in the tighter estates are most at risk from these situations.

 

[Lucy]

Ours got emptied on Thursday, it should have been Monday

 

[staffordjas]

I am assuming snow, earlier this week, caused a bin collection delay as my green bin was not emptied Friday.

My brown bin was collected on Monday as scheduled , the blue one was emptied on saturday afternoon. Must have been more or less impossible to empty most of them on monday, as well as the treacherous conditions most of the lids were stuck down, Managed to unstick mine with a claw hammer, but gave up on the others up our driveway.

Did notice that a house where the binmen normally go down the driveway to collect it from by the house, as it's an old couple who live there, was missed at first on saturday. Luckily the bloke managed to go up the drive and catch their attention as they drove back up the road. (I only noticed when I saw the lorry stopping on it's way back, or would have pointed it out to them myself) Must have been a different crew on than usual who hadn't noticed the instructions to collect it.