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Careful there laddie they ( West Auckland ) once won the world football cup.
Careful there laddie they ( West Auckland ) once won the world football cup.
Indeed.
April 12 1909, exactly 55 years before I was born, West Auckland beat a Swiss team 2-0 in the final of the Sir Thomas Lipton trophy, acknowledged as the precursor to the modern World Cup, and 2 years later did the same by beating Juventos 6-1. Not bad for a team made up of coal miners from what was a sleepy pit village.
And Sir Thomas Lipton, born in the Gorbals in Glasgow in 1848, was the same man who established the Lipton's Tea empire. Again, not bad for a man who was born into poverty, left school at 13 and signed on a steam ship as a cabin boy.
My Old Landy
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This turned up today. I am not a fan of digital stuff but thought I would give one a go!
brightspark
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yea but a mechanical one is either metric or imperial and you cant zero them from your last measurement .also when your mince pies are failing the readouts aren't so clever . handy if your lathes imperial and you need to convert to metric
How about this,taken in 1984 ,in the next village,I lived in mid Sussex then,and I think this was carrying a railway carriage from the bluebell railway.
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Johnsons used to haul for Poclain when I worked there, and took on our Bradford-based driver who did the Case skid-steer loader demos when we all got made redundant in 1981
The cheap Makitas you get in Screwfix, B&Q, etc often come with plastic gearboxes to keep the price down and are junk. But I've stripped several Makitas bought from a proper tool supplier & they had all metal gearboxes in them. In fact I have been very impressed by the build quality of Makita stuff in general, miles ahead of Dewalt & their spare parts prices are cheaper.
There’s a chap near me who was an engineer there,weren’t they in Hull?
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I don’t know Nick, in those days I never went further north than Banbury
Very Wise.
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so what locates the insertion depth of the blade for repeat re sharpens
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Mk1 eyeball.
The excavator manufacturer in Hull was Priestman, Packed up years ago. A good tough machine, to many buy outs, take overs etc.
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In a weak moment, I gave a set like that away years ago, still kicking myself for doing so.
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No pictures.
But a new job. Started today.
A steep learning curve ahead of me.
But a new job. Started today.
A steep learning curve ahead of me.
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Two pairs of new to me speakers, B&W DM610s and Tannoy F4 customs, currently in the living room to test on my housemate's Sony amp but I'll buy my own soon. Undecided whether I should go for stereo or find even more speakers and go surround sound.
Haven't had the B&Ws on much yet but first impressions of the Tannoys is they're bloody good, fifty quid well spent.
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I got some cutting fluid and a 14mm end mill to try out. Don't know the quality of Swiss Tech but at £7 not a lot to lose!
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Swiss tech are pretty good.
I like that MWF fluid, got a nice smell compared to rtd
