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I’ve got a T chest full of BSF/whit ring and open enders. When i worked for Shell Mex & BP they issued all the mechanics with a full set of metric tools mainly because they introduced the Rolls 220 engine in to the fleet.

My first socket set was Britool hexaganol, felt very inferior as all the other apprentices and mechanics were 1/2” drive. One of the directors where i first started work in 1960 bought my first set of tools from Brown Brothers, great chap no wonder he was knighted.

I had the 100e Anglia with side vale 10 hp engine. Ran it for about 6 months with no 3 piston u/s, thought it was just the rings worn using loads of piston seal until I stripped it down. Found adjusting the valves a real pain.

As you say predictive text can be a real pain which makes it important to preview your post, you can take It off but it can be useful when your brain stops working.

The one in the photo is a side valve, good engines but only had the thermosyphon cooling system with no water pump so no heater.

Bit like Leyland motors on the Wolverhampton new road, no point phoning either as they never answered the phone.

Hopefully still on thread. I know what you mean about laying on car parks repairing vehicles as my future Brother in Law had three coaches located on Coleshill car park, all repairs and maintenance work was carried out on that carpark.

During my 5 years bus driving after I took early retirement the most annoying passenger is the fare dodger. As in the TV programme the simplest way to catch the younger ones out was to ask their date of birth, any that had to stop and think were almost certainly older then they said they were.

I used to take my car to S U In the late sixties for the triple carbs to be tuned, the expert engineers would rip out all the old parts and replace with new if you asked them to which resulted in a vast improvement in performance.

Not sure which one you mean but I had a two tone 100e anglia that I bought shortly after passing my test in 1963. The top entrance to Rylands was to the Stores and car section, also big bill Whales office and cash office.

Hello Kieron. My first job after leaving school in the June of 1960 was as a trainee mechanic at Rylands. Started in the stores, as I wasn’t 15 until the September, then trained as a car and HGV mechanic. Worked there until 1964 then moved on to being a PSV mechanic. Great times and many...

Two of the cars outside Ryland were a Ford V8 pilot and a citroen, ford owned by the Foreman George Reedman and the Citroen by the chargehand Brian Crawford.

Same here. Using ipad with Safari.

Running boards would fall off if you jumped on them, at least they did when i jumped into my cousins car as a child.

I was also in the motor trade and by far the biggest rot boxes in the early sixties were the late fifties Vauxhalls. As far as foreign cars went the early Datsuns were almost as bad. I can remember going around the Triumph factory in Coventry and seeing all the rusting body shells waiting...

Try switching your router off and on again, I usually find that clears any faults.

Used mine once when some plonk drove out of a side road without looking left and collided side on to me. Full load of School children in an almost new Dart but luckily no one was hurt.

Disposable camera still issued to me in 2004 when I worked for Truronian here in Cornwall as mobile phone evidence not then accepted as evidence.

Just jumping onto an old post. All the eight wheeler Leyland I've ever worked on, including the pre LAD cab, were called Octopus. All the Hippos I've ever worked on were 6x4 six wheelers. Was the Hippo in the picture a Norde conversion where the second steer axle was added ?