The Oxford had the 1500cc ‘O’ series engine which I always considered to be little more than an oversize ‘A’ series.

As Bazv has already stated it was the B series engine in the Oxford. The O series was a development of the B series used in the later Morris Marina/Ital and Austin Princess/Ambassador and later as a 2litre turbo in the MG Meastro/Montego

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BL_O-Series_engine

Martin

1 ..Inconsiderate swines who park in disabled parking spots when they are clearly able bodied

I have another version to that, in the people who park in the Parent and Child spot who clearly dont have kids.

2. nitwits who like to broadcast to the world their crap taste in music through their mobile phone instead of using a mp3 player and earphones.

3. People (usually women) who insist on having a 20min conversation with the checkout person (again usually a woman) instead of packing their shopping – In the words of Jeff Dunhams Walter, ‘Welcome to WalMart. Get your crap and get out. Have a nice day’

4. Injury claims ads – If you watch where you are going instead of yabbering/texting on your blasted phone you wont fall over!

5. Aisles/doors of shops that are too narrow for my pushchair and people who look ar you like you are something they stepped in when you politely ask them to let you passed them

Jeff Dunham, anyone?

My favourite comedian at the moment. Saw his ‘Arguing with myself’ DVD and his ‘Spark of Insanity’ show on TV recently and was in tears with laughter and I cant go into Asda now without having a quite giggle to myself, especially as the greeter looks like Walter. Dunham does tread that fine line a bit but what I like is that he knows when to back off. A lot of ‘edgy’ comics out there take it too far.

Jasper Carrott is another of my favourites too as well as Peter Kay although Kay has gone off the boil a bit for me with his other projects he has done lately.

Martin

Cracking thread. My first car was a 1976 Vauxhall HC Viva, which had gaffer tape holding the doors together. 3 months later it got written off. I sold the engine and gearbox to a mate who wrote his car of about a month after that.

Martin

For any one who hasnt seen the original film and has 5 mins here is a quick recap.:D:dev2:

The Dam Busters (1955) in 5mins

I agree with Dave Homewood on this was interested to see the interview with Stephen Fry in his link. My ears perked up when Fry said he had visited Peter Jacksons collection of aircraft which included some Lancasters. Does this mean then more have now been built? It seems foolish to invest all this money in building these aircraft to ‘back burner’ the project. I shall remain on the fence on this one until either a) the film is released or b) there is official word from PJ himself.

Martin

Pete,
Most of the 25-yd range butts on RAF Stations were regularly “de-leaded” – i.e the bullets that had been fired into it were removed. I don’t think this was to recover the scrap value of the metal (the experts will, no doubt, give their thoughts) but was more to do with avoiding ricochets from incoming rounds from those already just below the surface! But as the Cpl i/c the Range at Benson used to explain to me “No problem with your rounds, Sir. They’re probably embedded in the woodwork holding up the corrugated iron roof!”. I presume the same procedure was applied to the longer ranges.
HTH
Resmoroh

I did a range officers course with the air cadets a few years ago and we covered range construction and it is true that barrack ranges are regularly deleaded because of the ricochet risk. Also the other reason ranges are deleaded is the risk of lead poisoning particularly when small arms ammunition (.22 etc.) has been used, as these dont have the ‘full metal jacket’ assault weapon ammunition has.

There was an incident, earlier this year, at Fort Blockhouse (ex HMS Dolphin) in Gosport where some admin bunny was rooting through the records of the place and found that a large Naval mine had been buried in the narrow spit of land between the main camp and the fort area for use if the the Germans ever invaded during WWII. However no records were found of its removal post war. So they went ove the area with a ground mapping radar and found a large anomaly about the size of said mine, so the base was shut down over Easter while the bomb disposal people came in to poke around. thankfully it was just some stray pipingfrom elsewhere in the sites history and nothing else was found in the area.

Martin

Griffon Engined Spit just flew over Gosport about 15 mins ago

Martin