Bennets Insurance - Treat as Toxic

Sounds like its similar to the Swiss system - you get a reminder a
couple of months before the due date, with the renewal premium and
exact level of cover all laid out, and have until the renewal date to
decide whether to a) just let it automatically renew, b) change your
cover with them or c) switch to another insurer.

In the case of C) I believe that you don't specifically need to inform
the old one, as it will initiate the production of a new vehicle
license (reg. doc.), as it's only there that the insurer is recorded,
with no certificate issued as such.

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In Switzerland it is taken as a legal proof, _even if you never
actually received it_. So if it's, say, a summons or a final tax
demand that you deliberately avoid picking up from the PO, you'll
still be equally liable to the consequences as if you had received it.

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Dans l'article <2f2b8e46-43df-4b6a-933b-
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native? check.

genuine? all family is from west of Algeria, near Moroccan border.

intelligent? currently proud owner of several boxes of Guzzi pieces and
one running 350 Jawa.

Perhaps it will change in frogland with the moving of the mail/letter
business from state-operated to private (already done for parcels).

IANAL but I can see that we'll then need to use "Huissier de Justice" or
lawyer service: mucho dinero and PITA.

But what do I know, I'm just a thickheaded tightfisted Guzzisti.

 

I do believe that I've already requested that you leave off Cab.

D.

 

Same here. It is the "Date de première présentation" that is legal
proof.

 

Interesting. I think in the UK that it is certainly strong evidence,
and in some cases it may be taken as legal service of documents
(summons, etc)[1] but when I was taking legal action against a
particularly irritating **** and produced a sheaf of recorded delivery
slips for the demands I'd sent him, and which he denied ever
receiving, the court told me that if he'd signed for them, then he'd
received them, but if he said he never saw them it was for me to prove
that he had. They drew a distinction between *sending* a recorded
delivery item and *receiving* it.

Interestingly, I see Germany makes a similar distinction:

"If service is effected by recorded delivery letter with
acknowledgement of receipt, the acknowledgement of receipt is
sufficient as proof (Section 175, second sentence, ZPO)." (http://
ec.europa.eu/civiljustice/serv_doc/serv_doc_ger_en.htm) In other
words, proof only if the letter is signed for.

Whereas in the UK, ordinary post is deemed sufficient for service of
legal documents. Well, well.[1]

[1] Paging CT and other lawyers

 

Oh dear, another faux Froggie ;-)

Don't diss the Mighty Jawa. This was mine:

http://www.chateau.murray.dsl.pipex.com/images/Jawa.jpg

<Small voice>

I like Guzzis too

</small voice>

 

ITYM: `thickheaded tightfisted Guzzista'.

 

I believe it has to do with the 'status' given by the respective
countries to their 'fonctionnaires'. I don't think that postal workers
here are 'assermentés' (=~ 'have sworn an oath'); we teachers certainly
aren't, but in general if the postman says that he deposited the 'avis
de passage', then a court will take the postman's word over the pleb who
says he never received it.

D.

 

It all depends, though. In TOG's weird, ever-so-slightly fucked-in-
the-head world, if you came to whatever country you live in before you
were five, then you get to call yourself the nationality of that
country.

'course, that means that Israel's current President 'isn't really
Israeli', and that one of the France's most influential post-WWII
Presidents 'isn't really French', but well ... no one ever accused TOG
of being rational. Especially where I'm concerned ... which is what
all this is about.

D.

 

But, Des, that's what *you* say: you are `French' because you spent
time there as a child and because you have moved there as an adult.
Admittedly, you abandon this rule when it suits you (Wolfe Tone was
not Irish enough), but it is your stated rule.

 

I think you'll find (if you bother to look back), that I base my
nationality on a little more than some holidays here as a child, plus a
move here eleven years ago ...

Yeah, yeah ..

D.

 

Dans l'article <a33bf9e6-925b-4f8f-91ec-
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écrivait...

<ma_vie>
Algeria was french, a few members of the family were native algerian
(and considered themselves Kabyles rather than Algerian) even if more
were french, born in "Départements français d'Algérie" or not.
So I am a french citizen, even if from a cultural point of view I am

Nice.
Too clean to be a real Jawa (Photoshop?), but nice.

My V11 Sport
http://francis.chartier.free.fr/V11s/2.0/V11S_2.0_01.jpg

My 1000 Strada when I got it.
http://francis.chartier.free.fr/Strada/Alternateur.jpg
http://francis.chartier.free.fr/Strada/p6160124.jpg
http://francis.chartier.free.fr/Strada/Bobines.jpg

 

Not according to TOG, you're not.

Heh. It's great when his crap comes back and bites him on the arse.

D.

 

Looked back, couldn't find it. What's your definition?

I still find it hard to believe that any Irish republican would
consider Wolfe Tone not Irish enough.

 

Interesting. There's a difference between being a 'French citizen' and
being 'French' IMHO, and as you imply, a lot of it is cultural. And I
don't even know what Kabylian is.

<Googles>

Well, I'm damned. Never heard of the place, but it looks fascinating.

Cheeky bugger. It was very, very clean at the time, though.

Oh, now that is nice.

<snip hard-to-load pictures of old Guzzi>

I always liked the 1000 Strada as a back-to-basics Guzzi. Just an
update on the T3, really.

My wife's V50, circa 1986

http://www.chateau.murray.dsl.pipex.com/images/v50.jpg

And my Spada, same date

http://www.chateau.murray.dsl.pipex.com/images/spada.jpg

 

Camus is very good on it. There is a nice collection of some of his
writings from Algeria which has coverage of life there.

 

Dans l'article <a84c3396-eeb7-4d59-97c9-49fb5d1fd503
@b1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>,
écrivait...

Mine is constantly leaking oil from heads, exhausts, oil pump, carb,
etc.
Apart from that it is rather pleasant to ride, for a pre-glasnost value
of pleasant.

The engine is quite different with bigger valves and domed pistons, and
PHF36 with accelerator pumps. It is more a 1000S (VN first series, not
the Dell Orto 40mm one) disguised as a basic tourer than a T3 slug.

Nice bikes the V50/V65.
I had a 1984 V65C that I sold last year to rebuild the Strada, I miss
it.

 

I didn't realise that it was modeled after British bikes of the 50's,
60's and 70's..

Phil

 

Or even BMWs from the 21st century.....