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Old 10 Dec 2011, 09:11 (Ref:2997930)   #251
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Those old 50s buses were one of the highlights of our holiday in Malta a couple of years ago.

Very cheap basic transport around the island. Reminded me of the old school buses we used to have back in the day.

Now being replaced with Euro poo.
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I went on a bendy bus once in Romania, utterly terrifying. walking is the safest form of transport out there.
Unless you happen to be standing on a corner when one passes by!
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Old 10 Dec 2011, 10:42 (Ref:2997960)   #253
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My licence came back today, it was posted on Wednesday so I can only blame the post man for the delay but then he is nearly as old as Delta and takes two days to walk up our road.
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My licence came back today, it was posted on Wednesday so I can only blame the post man for the delay but then he is nearly as old as Delta and takes two days to walk up our road.
Mine too (my Clerks and Stewards licence that is) but my postman is French (he smiles a lot but doesn't seem to speak much English!) and only seems to come 2 or 3 times a week - and I thought the Post Office was one of the last truly British institutions?
I shall, of course, spend the rest of the weekend, reading my new Blue Book!
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Old 10 Dec 2011, 12:07 (Ref:2997985)   #255
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Getting back to those bendy buses didn't some of them have a massive flywheel that is activated when they put the brakes on and then the stored energy is used to pull away ?
I think I saw these in Holland years ago, obviously a forerunner of KERS
Maybe it's my brain getting old !
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Gordon, think you are right about the bendies KERS. After my first across Europe trip stuck at 90kph in October the thought occurred that trucks should have a 'KERS' button so that they could actually overtake the Lithuanian (other nationalities are availabe) 38 tonner that refuses to lift rather than sit alongside for eternity....
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After my first across Europe trip stuck at 90kph in October the thought occurred that trucks should have a 'KERS' button so that they could actually overtake the Lithuanian (other nationalities are availabe) 38 tonner that refuses to lift rather than sit alongside for eternity....
On a similar subject, I've heard that anything over 3.5 tons isn't allowed to overtake on any two lane autoroute in France, Belgium or Holland, I thought it was just where signs dictate. Has anyone got a definitive answer to this?
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I shall be drawn towards "Pit Lane - speed limits - penalties for exceeding" Can't think why?
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Old 10 Dec 2011, 12:52 (Ref:2998014)   #259
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Getting back to those bendy buses didn't some of them have a massive flywheel that is activated when they put the brakes on and then the stored energy is used to pull away ?
I think I saw these in Holland years ago, obviously a forerunner of KERS
Maybe it's my brain getting old !
About 10 years ago I did some work for a company who were developing a system to do the same with the Underground trains. I'm not sure if it ever happened but it was pretty amazing technology at the time.
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I shall be drawn towards "Pit Lane - speed limits - penalties for exceeding" Can't think why?
John, you've made my day

Tim, have a read of this document just found. Interesting stuff starts at page 17.
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Old 10 Dec 2011, 14:23 (Ref:2998055)   #261
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Getting back to those bendy buses didn't some of them have a massive flywheel that is activated when they put the brakes on and then the stored energy is used to pull away ?
I think I saw these in Holland years ago, obviously a forerunner of KERS
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Fantastic technology - until the elastic band breaks.
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Tim, have a read of this document just found. Interesting stuff starts at page 17.
Thanks for that Mike, very interesting reading.
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Those old 50s buses were one of the highlights of our holiday in Malta a couple of years ago.

Very cheap basic transport around the island. Reminded me of the old school buses we used to have back in the day....
As a schoolboy I used to travel on some of the Malta buses when they were new in the '60s - lived out there for 3-years when my father was stationed there. They were a great way to travel - celebrated my 50th birthday out there a few years ago and it was great to see some of the old buses still going strong.

Our transport to school out there was on the back of Army wagons of the era - loads of kids crammed into the back of them - don't think it would go down well with health & safety these days. But good times.
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I was told that to do your driving test in Malta, you drove around various cones in a car park. and if you hit the cones, the examiner moved them farther apart!

My old man bought a wee place in Stella Maris St, St Pauls Bay in 1971 when I was about 14. I learnt to windsurf there, out to St Pauls Island and back, great stuff.
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Mine too (my Clerks and Stewards licence that is) but my postman is French (he smiles a lot but doesn't seem to speak much English!) and only seems to come 2 or 3 times a week - and I thought the Post Office was one of the last truly British institutions?
I shall, of course, spend the rest of the weekend, reading my new Blue Book!


Can thoroughly recommend pages 345 to 406 John,hopefully I'll finish reading it tonight. No comments about" letters" and "french" postman btw.
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That's mainly about karting ......... or is yours' a different edition?
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Just checking! Well done that man.
New Instructors license is on its way John,its now possible to do it on-line.
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We can't renew our clerks/stewards licences 'on line' ....... probably because its beyond our capabilities?
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As an Instructors license is issued as an Officials license,that it a bit odd.Surely they all come from the same source?
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On a totally separate note, there are quite a number photos representing 'our' racing in the site's photo comp this year, so worth a look to those who don't normally bother!
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It may be odd but we're talking about the MSA here. Our renewal is purely a paper based system which has to be completed by the end of August each year --- or you're 'struck off'. Don't know why it's like that and never bothered to ask!!!
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Probably for the best!
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All this blue book stuff is blooming boring. I am reading "No Angel". Bernie Ecclestone book. Thats not boring.
Been karting at Shennington today.
I was leading the finnal two laps to go and some young upstart with all the karting gear on and fancy painted crash hat put me in the barriers.Still came third and fastest lap,then the cheeky wot not took my "fastest lap "trophie. Whats the world coming too.
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