Well a friend of mine operates this on behalf of Tate & Lyle. I’m sure a quick Google followed by the good ol’ telephone would have helped them, but as ever, indolence among these people is the real star of the show.

It’s a 1913 McCurd by the way.
Please note, how relatively crude it is. Most peoples idea of an ‘old’ vehicle is much more firmly rooted in something from a later period–say the 1930’s/40’s or even the 50’s these days.

Still doesn’t hurt to get it right though.
A.

I never really got into Foyle but what I did have some hope for, but as ever was disappointed by, was the BBC’s much trumpeted ‘The Village’.
I actually turned off after 15 minutes of episode 1. I was initially hoping that it would be an accurate depiction of life in the pre-Great War era but of course it isn’t. Alarm bells were ringing straight away in scene 1, act 1 when the bus came down the lane looking suspiciously modern with pneumatic tyres (subsequently five minutes Googling established it to be a modern replica built in the 1980’s to be a rough facsimile of a charabanc). Things went rapidly down hill from there with alcoholism, domestic abuse and sadistic school teachers. It seemed to me and others that a BBC steering group (or whatever the hell they call themselves) sat down in an office in Woodgreen and collectively decided that a) it’s grim up North, and b) it was unremittingly grim years ago. All without reference to anything–certainly reality.
No one I actually know has so far succeeded in watching a complete episode, and while I do realise that life was somewhat harder back then, I fail to believe it was completely without humour or joy.
Listening to ‘Front Row’ on Radio 4 recently, the TV critic on there compared it, somewhat less than favourably I think with Peter hall’s 1974 film ‘Akenfield’, about life in a Suffolk village in the same period.
Short clips of Akenfield are available on Youtube but sadly a DVD of the film is very difficult to track down.
It was also compared (again unfavourably) with the German TV series ‘Heimat’ which was screened some years ago.

To finish, I know that I’ll be accused of nit-picking about the bus, but surely years ago the BBC in particular were famous for going the extra mille to depict accurately background period shots.
And if they can’t be bothered with the small stuff, why should I believe in the bigger overall picture of life that are attempting to portray..?
Andy.

PS. And there was a ‘Routemaster’ in Foyle the other week.

Seeing as the Chief constable has spoken at his ‘dismay’, I can’t see PC Jones ever pinning up her sergeants stripes.
I’d like to be a little fly on the wall at her promotion board–should it ever come to pass.
They work in mysterious ways you now–their wonders to perform.
Andy.

Looking at a cost of 35 million in the long term its not credible to get a return on that kind of investment from a museum project of this kind and I am not sure where you could get anything to display that is appropriate and interesting enough to draw visitors in.

I agree with that David.
You’re going to have to have some heap big medicine on show to recoup that sort of investment.
Have BCH actually got a Lancaster–their website shows one??
I sometimes wonder how people think the heritage/leisure industry works.
‘ON SMALL MARGINS’ is the one I commonly hear.
And unless the weather improves–smaller ones yet..!

My guess is this. That there isn’t actually enough money around at the moment to sustain the stuff that is preserved nationally. If it wasn’t for huge injections of private money, I reckon the old aeroplane trade, and by definition many airshows, museums and probably this forum would cease to exist.
Sadly, I rate this one alongside ‘The Peoples DH.98’.

However, what amuses me is if it was just an ordinary member of the public this wouldn’t even make the news and wouldn’t even be discussed on here. People make claims for stuff like this regularly, it’s the ‘in’ thing nowadays.

Yes but ordinary members of the public are not being paid a considerable amount of money to offer the rest of the tax paying public a service.
If you don’t want to spend your life running about about looking at scenes of crime, then don’t join ‘the filf’, and if you’re so stupid or otherwise retarded that you haven’t considered the risks attached, then you deserve all you get.

Spoke to someone quite close to home (my home, not Norfolk Police) on this today.
Apparently if PC Jones was injured whilst on duty, a substantial collection of paperwork should have been completed in the aftermath of the incident.
I think the main form is known as an ‘injury while on duty’ form.
This would make Norfolk Constabulary aware that one of their officers had suffered minor injury while carrying out Police duties.
This would start the mechanism of compensation for the officer into operation.
The fact that Norfolk Police appear not to even know of the incident appears to indicate that this paperwork may not have been completed.
The person I spoke to also indicated that if PC Jones didn’t complete this paperwork then she is ‘screwed’ from a number of angles.
The person also stated that they doubted there was any injury at the time and this is just a try on.
We’ll see.
A.

I sometimes wonder if ‘The Filf’ have a special think tank who sit with the sole purpose of dreaming up ways of making themselves look like w*nkers in the eyes of the paying public.
After all, it is the mainly law abiding, tax paying public who pay their wages. The same tax paying public they show less and less respect for. The problem seems to me that the coppers are more institutionalised than many long term criminals and therefore without much original thought. Made worse I think because many of them are recruited from the military.
As to this moronic, untidy and scruffy looking individual (see stories in media for very uncomplimentary pictures), all I can say is, I wouldn’t want her attending any crime I was the victim of.