Oh yes! Proposed new Science Museum

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/..._pictures_technology0s_hidden_past/html/1.stm

I had no idea that the SM was holding onto stuff like this. I've never
seen a Connie in the flesh, for a start.

 

I'd love to be able to go and see that lot.

 

Excellent , that'll be well worth a look
--
Alex

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I'm fairly sure you can go & view the stuff anyway - they certainly
have open days for schools. The site's just up the road from SWMBO's
cafe, & has been under development for a while now, so I'm pretty sure
it's past the 'proposed' stage.

That Connie's the one used by the Rolling Stones for their Australia
tour in the early '70s.

--
Krusty
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Talking about Ernie 1:

"The machine, replaced in 1972, is cleaned with saliva and cotton buds
to remove the residue left by cigarette smoke."

ewwww. I hope you only have to lick each bud once.

 

I've been round a couple of times on their public open days, mind you
that was <cough> a while back

 

I've been there to a model aircraft show a couple of years ago. It
_pissed_ down and blew a few shop tents away. The shop I was working for
had lots of customers in, they held onto the tent for us.

 

and in other news

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/oxfordshire/6962448.stm

<GULP>

 

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

Be interesting to see if he gets a heavier punishment than this guy:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/6960166.stm

won't it? Prace bets now!

--
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Well clearly people who steal 911's should be hanged.... slowly

 

I keep on getting a 404 on the link.

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I went around it about 15 years ago. Mindbogglingly brilliant.

 

Be good to see some of that stuff properly displayed. I knew they had
piles of gear they simply don't have room for at the main venue, but I
didn't know quite how much.

From the Stones to cows, all in a year. Ah well, Keith Richards probably
dropped plenty of shit down the back of the seat before that.

What intrigued me was the 1904 electric car - 50 miles on a charge. I'd
expect a century of development to have made more difference than it
has.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

Teach a man to fish and he and his pikey mates will have the
river cleaned out in a day.

 

Send the whole fucking lot to the crusher, seriously, what is the point of
hanging on to all this crap, none of it has any practical value
whatsoever, a machine is either useful and used or not, there is no
purpose whatsoever in having all that junk just for gawping at.

I reckon it should be abolished as an unnecessary expense, dewy eyed,
rose-tinted, preserved in aspic, kleptomaniac weirdos, 20th century
trash, the whole country is going to the dogs.

 

Believe it or not, electric cars were big news in the US at the turn of
the century. Have a google.

Quieter, smoother, more reliable than early IC engine powered cars. And
nobody drove any great distance.

The Model T changed all that.

 

Plaster the entire vehicle in solar collection systems. Maybe not
enough for a car doing 500 miles a day every day carting some sales rep
around the countryside but for all the ones parked in my street at 10 to
9 and 10 to three every day ample by any measure.

 

Krusty wrote

What? I don't believe you.
I once owned a Connie myself - it was a 1960 Royal Enfield and I can
hardly imagine the Rolling Stones achieving that objective with it.

 

My mother owned a couple of Connies - good they were, whizzed about on a
cushion of air.

 

platypus wrote

It had fantastic torque - it was genuinely capable of pulling from below
20 mph to the Ton or over in Top (if the damn (famously fiddly patented
RE scissors type) clutch on mine had not started slipping at 80-ish.
Never sorted it).

The crank/flywheel was an awesome one-piece forging weighing 24 pounds.

 

When my mother died and we cleared the house, we took both of hers down the
dump. They still worked, but nobody wanted them and we didn't reckon they
were worth anything.