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And do you remember how you indicated to a police officer directing traffic that you intended to go straight on?
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A trip down memory lane. Last week I actually saw a marked police car on the M1. Well, on the hard shoulder of a slip road where he would be difficult to see coming round a long left bend, downhill immediately after being released from a long 50 limit. But I think he was waiting for the tail end of the queue for the next exit to come into view so he could report back to base that the regular congestion was well under way.The queue was about 2 miles long when I reached it on my return journey about an hour later Had he stayed he might have had to wait a while longer. |
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With no hand signals?
Well I've taken the chance of this snow day to spend time in the office. It was a long and hard journey to work, much interrupted not so much by snow as cats lying on the stairs here at Tyler Towers. WFH does have its advantages :-) I've not even been outside today. MrsMM just gone for a walk "to look at the snow" but I can't say it fascinates me. I'd rather stay in the warm. FWIW I learned to drive in a Rover P6 2000, passed my test second time in the instructor's Fiesta. I've only failed the one driving test in my life, passed motor bike and HGV first time. |
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I've got an old (1929 I think) copy of The Highway Code somewhere at home that also shows the 'hand' signals that should be made when driving a horse and cart, but using the whip! (I'm sure Baub will be back any moment to describe what they are...)
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I too was a Viva graduate, the school car was still in action about 15 years later, goodness knows how many clutches that had munched through in its time.
In heavy snow many years ago I was piloting an artic up Bluebell Hill (the one with the ghost) when it became obvious there was little point continuing so I peeled off onto the slip road which led down to a crossroads where I could go under the dual carriageway and head back home. Just before the junction there is a slight gradient so I engaged the diff lock and for good measure raised the rear tag axle on the unit so more weight was on the central drive axle. At the crossroads was one of our boys in blue who, seeing I was struggling for grip and indicating right, stopped all the other traffic and took a step to the left. When I reached the junction I waved a merry 'thank you' and turned the wheel - the truck continued in a dead straight line and the bobby had to leap into a snowdrift to avoid being hedgehogged. The truck was obviously see-sawing on the drive axle thus no steering. I have often wondered if he thought I'd done it deliberately. I now had no option but to continue up the hill and turn round at the top - took me about 6 hours to do the 10 miles back home And the tales I could tell of the misery of freezing diesel - doesn't seem to be an issue these days. |
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Remember my X-reg Jetta diesel suffering from frozen DERV in about 87 - as you say I think they winterize the diesel a bit better now so many use it - certainly haven't seen a truck with a mini-bonfire under it for many a year
Passed my test (2nd-time) in Dad's A35 converted van, in December 67 - it was a sobering thought a few weeks ago that I'd been driving over 50 years....My test-pass story was of arriving at the finish for the Highway code questions and being asked "What do you do when you see a steep hill sign?" - so I gave the approved "change down a gear" answer.......to then be asked "Why didn't you ?" .........After a discussion about the test route which didn't involve any steep hills more than about 50 yards long, and therefore didn't seem likely to produce any brake fade.....nice man said - "Well you know all the answers - just put them into practice!" and gave me the treasured pink slip |
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Colin, you realise that talk of ‘tag axles’ and ‘diff locks’ will go over most heads on here.......
Freezing diesel? On the farm it was a constant winter problem when I were a lad! |
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[QUOTEit was a sobering thought a few weeks ago that I'd been driving over 50 years....][/QUOTE]
Oh! Have you removed the P plate yet, after 60 years you can consider yourself, experienced. January 1958. And still learning. That is important. |
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And the tales I could tell of the misery of freezing diesel - doesn't seem to be an issue these days.[/QUOTE]
Not freezing diesel, But had freezing heating oil this week, well not the oil but drops of water in the heating oil. Wednesday morning -5c heating starts as normal hour later boiler cuts out and will not restart. Check filter on tank outlet full of ice, clean filter and hair dryer on the oil pipe and 2 hours later we have heating, have not turned heating off since, just keeping oil flowing. Just part of living in rural Norfolk. We don't offen get a frost on the coast, but Wednesday we could't get out of the village all roads blocked. Happy days |
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While you're all watching the steam trains I'll rattle on about trucks a bit more. One of my first trucks was a very secondhand Volvo F88, the 250GTO of old trucks in terms of values these days. It was so worn out that you couldn't see what any of the switches and levers were supposed to be for. One of the switches brought on a yellow light on the dash so on the basis that it was probably better to be on rather than off I drove it around for a couple of weeks until I took the side out of a parked car because it wouldn't go round corners. Yep, diff lock. They built them tough back then!
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