I’d be good with that but my mrs wants it to look perfect, she wanted to spend £400 on a piece of rock and I got the broken one for £50
I’m just glad I never spent the £400, if I wasn’t there she’d spend £400 and get it delivered for an extra £100...Surely you could find similar for nothing, down the coast.
My dad once referring to the turning circle of a black hackney told me “it can turn on a tanner” - probably an old saying. I asked if I could have it translated to pounds and pences please!Loved the slang for the old money, tanners, bobs, dollars, half crowns, etc.
The turning circle of an official London Cab is 25 feet to allow them to turn at a roundabout by one of the posh old London hotels . Obtained by upsweeping the front end of the chassis and a small & short wheel base .My dad once referring to the turning circle of a black hackney told me “it can turn on a tanner” - probably an old saying. I asked if I could have it translated to pounds and pences please!
If I could find rocks like that down the shore and get a few hundred quid for them I’d be retired by now...Surely you could find similar for nothing, down the coast.
The Triumph Herald had a similar turning circle.My dad once referring to the turning circle of a black hackney told me “it can turn on a tanner”
The Triumph Herald had a similar turning circle.
So
So did my Lotus 7. I wonder why that might be.........
The Triumph Herald had a similar turning circle.
Was it a vertical circle per chance or an axial one ?
If I could find rocks like that down the shore and get a few hundred quid for them I’d be retired by now...
Never glued it together, ended up mounting it in two halves, just need a pump as water comes out the end of hammer & chisel...View attachment 197280
hotel..the savoyThe turning circle of an official London Cab is 25 feet to allow them to turn at a roundabout by one of the posh old London hotels . Obtained by upsweeping the front end of the chassis and a small & short wheel base .
A tanner ..six pence ..small coin app 2.5 new pence … very small .
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- The Victorian etymology sounds like guessing, and it is.
- John Sigismund Tanner, originally from Saxe-Coburg, was a medallist and designer at the Royal Mint. The sixpence he designed for George II popularly gained his name and this stuck for all the other designs right up until decimalisaton. The only nicknames I have heard for coins in circulation today, are a "ten-bob" referring to a 50p coin since it's the same value as a ten shilling (bob) note was and, less frequently, the word "nuggets" or "nugs" for pound coins - no doubt due to them being thick for their size and the colour of gold nuggets.