Bikers targetted for speeding

Previously on usenet, sweller said...

I was doing routine maintenance and light repairs on army Minor
Travellers in 1978. I think they were still using them up until 1982.

 

Funnily enough I remember my dad once bringing a matt green traveller
home. It had a, IIRC, small roundel on the bonnet. That would have been
about 1977.

But the factory had stopped building them in 1971.

 

Of course the rider should be stopped and subjected to the full force of
the law. It's an Imperial Stormtrooper FFS!

 

Previously on usenet, sweller said...

My dad and I both ran Travellers when I was younger. We had a garage
filld with spare wings, doors, gearboxes and engines, all courtesy of
the MOD

I know, but a fair few were built for the MOD from spares stock after
that.

 

I knew someone would do that.

 

You state a valid point, Ben. IIRC, the 30mph limit was instituted as
yielding a "safe" stopping distance for cars when they were fitted
with rod-operated drum brakes. Consideration towards raising it to
40mph was made in the '80s when just about all cars had servo-assisted
discs and radial tyres. Then the "safety lobby" kicked in and now it
looks like 20mph in urban areas will be the norm.

Naah. Just you.

 

Sounds good to me..........................

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Pip wrote

Yebbut the thinking distances have quadrupled in the last 25 years.

 

Hmm... 100m to stop once brakes applied.

therefore 300m thinking distance.

140mph = 140x1609= 225,260metres per hour = 63 metres per second.

300m/63 mps = 4.75 seconds.

Hmm... looks a bit slow, though not excessively so.

 

I'd leave the thinking to others if I was you.

 

I love the noise that decent brakes make on ventilated disks.

 

I get the same end result using NLM (and assuming the same rate of
deceleration) but I can't figure out where 7s @ 35m/s comes from.

 

Gunga Dan wrote

Some notional amount of time spent braking against average speed?

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Champ

As opposed to:

ZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzsshhhhhh-ping!-clatter-BANG

as made by bodged carriers? ;^)

 

That was a leprecaun, you fool.

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Umm, I dunno maybe, I'm sure it's right. I think I are just being thick.

He's assumed deceleration of 1G which is where he gets 7s from (I assume)
but you can just use S=(v^2-u^2)/2a without doing any intermediate steps.
s'what I did anyway.

 

The GPO (as was) considered having Morris make them bespoke Moggy vans,
with all the major parts different-sized from standard, such was the
pilfering rate of spares. The idea was dropped when Morris gave them a
costing on it.

The Army, eh? Cutting edge technology.

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I was told that the MOD ordered the Minor with hardboard interiors, no
trim extras etc in the name of cost reduction. (this is in the era when a
heater, mirror and sun visor were optional extras)

Morris then took the standard interior out of the production line models,
replaced them with hardboard and charged the MOD extra for the time and
materials.

AFAIR only Land Rover had a separate MOD production line.

 

Previously on usenet, Grimly Curmudgeon said...

GPO used Moggy vans with funny looking rubber front wings for a while.

http://www.beardmorebros.co.uk/website pages/gpo_van.htm

 

Istr one of them around Glasgow in my yoof - it would have been ex-gpo
at that time.
What the **** was used as a wing repair kit - a jonny?

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