100 years ago today

[971wright]

Hi Guys 100 years ago today , the first tanks went into action 9 of them (it was supposed to be 40 ) but 31 broke down in the assembly area.
It was the start of what we love .

regards pete

[wibblywobbly]

Hi Guys 100 years ago today , the first tanks went into action 9 of them (it was supposed to be 40 ) but 31 broke down in the assembly area.
It was the start of what we love .

regards pete

Which also gave birth the to the British Car Industry that carried on similar traditions for many years.

[HERMAN BIX]

Hi Guys 100 years ago today , the first tanks went into action 9 of them (it was supposed to be 40 ) but 31 broke down in the assembly area.
It was the start of what we love .

regards pete

Which also gave birth the to the British Car Industry that carried on similar traditions for many years.

HHHHHHHaaaaaaaaaaa,hhhhaaaa !!!!!!!!!!!

BSW hex head bolts, seized, and oil leaks

[wadsworthj]

Who made these 40 tanks , Heng Long ?
Cheers and thanks for the info.
Wads.

[jarndice]

I don't think Heng Long could have made them "WADS",
The one thing they had no problem with was an ability to make SMOKE!!
Shaun.

[jackalope]

Range Rover still carries on that bold tradition of breaking down to this day, just ask Mr.Clarkson of Top Gear.

[jarndice]

Are we really going down the road (sic) of insulting national car makers if so I humbly submit "EDSEL" although I must admit that the British car industry has produced some real disasters,
An ogival shaped steering wheel anyone? The 50s Standard 8/10 when you put it in to the garage for a new clutch that was when the fitter discovered that the transmission was mounted so close to the car body you were not able to undo the bolts from underneath, So get inside the car and roll back the carpet and NOTHING,
Just a one piece floor.
To change the clutch, first the Garage had to cut out an access hole in the floor of the car , then undo the Bell housing bolts and make up a new plate for the floor that could be bolted into place,
You buy a cheap car you get big bills.
The watchword of the day was "Export or die",
We blo*dy well deserved too exporting that kind of rubbish.
Shaun.

[HERMAN BIX]

While we are in the kicking mood !..........

Turned up to a race meet and went to scrutineering, a couple of British bikes were ahead of me...............hemorrhaging out of the engine cases like a cheap sieve, and they were all standing there like new-borns fathers................came to mine(Japanese state of the art) and they busted my ass for having a catch bottle to small in volume for the regs...................
To which I responded along the lines of how the 'F' can those things go on the same track as me without being in a F'n huge bottle that will catch the entire pile of shit as well as the oil leaking out of it

They called a course steward, I was made to explain myself, so they got the same tirade and were asked to explain THEMselves about why the scrutineers should keep their accreditation for blatantly selectively applying the rule book

So, I went racing(with a bigger bottle taped to the frame) and those two old things got to spend the day trying to stop oil from seeping out of the engine cases
WINNER

[HERMAN BIX]

I also walked the ground not far from Cambrai where the early use of Tanks occurred. Was quite humbling to know that was where it all began.

[jackalope]

Shaun, really...an Edsal? Come on man I can go you better then that. Chevy Corvair, Ford Pinto, Pontiac Aztec, GM's wonderful 4,6,8 multi displacment engine of the 70's, how about a 500 cubic inch engine that made a screaming 190 some hp! All the diesel cars and trucks of the 70s and 80s. You Brits won't hold the record for crap cars without a fight mr.!

Of couse we never a wood frame on a modern car either so you do have us there.