Malcolm Robinson

My mate had one and swore by it, especially in the winter. I am sure he filled the suspension tubes underneath with old engine oil? Design brief was for a car that could cross a ploughed field with a basket of eggs on the seat and not break any. French peasants! The one I worked on belonged to a French student teacher who worked at St Bennies. She drove the thing from Normandy at about 30MPH because of a slipping clutch and had a biro stuck in the broken off mount to replace the indictor switch. The whole thing was held together with blue tack and elastic bands! (BTW Keef1 your favourite subject came up last night at the NCC meeting. Don't think any of them are in any doubt about the strength of feeling……………..)

Legal up to E190B.................

Sounds like happy days Keith!

Wonder if the Karlsruhe Court rules the ESM is illegal today...........well as far as Germany goes anyway. Pity we didn't have a designated legal body overseeing our constitution, course we need one of those to start with!

UURRRRRR Brian............. A bloke's wife goes missing while diving off the West Australian Coast He reports the event, searches fruitlessly and spends a terrible night wondering what could have happened to her. Next morning there's a knock at the door and he is confronted by a couple of policemen, the old Sarge and a younger Constable. The Sarge says, 'Mate, we have some news for you, unfortunately some really bad news, but, some good news, and maybe some more good news'. 'Well,' says the bloke, 'I guess I'd better have the bad news first?' The Sarge says, 'I'm really sorry mate, but your wife is dead. Young Bill here found her lying at about five fathoms in a little cleft in the reef. He got a line around her and we pulled her up, but she was dead.' The bloke is naturally distressed to hear of this and has a bit of a turn. But after a few minutes he pulls himself together and asks what the good news is. The Sarge says, 'Well when we got your wife up there were quite a few really good sized lobsters and a swag of nice crabs attached to her, so we've brought you your share.' He hands the bloke a bag with a couple of nice lobsters and four or five crabs in it. 'Geez thanks. They're real beauties. I guess it's an ill wind and all that... So what's the other possible good news? 'Well', the Sarge says, 'if you fancy a quick trip, me and young Bill here get off duty at around 11 o'clock and we're gonna shoot over there and pull her up again!

And that's exactly why it was used in schools, factories, etc.

Hope that's the News Post Leader Keef........

STATEMENT FROM A WHISTLE-BLOWER GIVEN TO ROBERT HALFON MP FOR FAIRFUELUK Key Points: This statement was given to us by a whistle-blower. He approached Robert Halfon MP (Photo) and his team voluntarily. He is a fulltime oil trader, who trades the UK oil futures commodity market on a daily basis. He has asked that his identity be kept secret, to protect his job and his family. Statement from an Oil-Trader: "I trade the oil market on a daily basis, and every day the price is manipulated - not just the daily benchmark price but the calendar spreads that make up a large part of the daily volume. All through July, for example, there has been a massive buying-pressure on oil futures for August and September 2012. Both were trading at around a $0.5c to $1 dollar premium. This gives a false impression of the market and inflates the price of the nearby oil price, making prices higher on retail markets so pushing up the price of petrol at the pumps.” "The FSA and the OFT should be asking: Why is the London market distorted, with prices kept artificially high? Who is pushing through these massive trades, to force up oil prices? Who is benefiting from this market manipulation? There is no fundamental need for the market to have a $1 dollar premium, for the price of September delivery over oil for October delivery. It seems to be a case of we can can do it so we will do it, and to hell with the damage it does to the country on the way. There is no world oil crisis. There is ample oil in the system to satisfy demand at the moment. Profiteering seems to be the only objective." "More specifically, the spreads are manipulated during the day and especially at certain times of the day when official prices are set. This is how some contracts are priced and passed on to the consumer. This movement is not the way a free market should trade, and moves in a way that bears no relation to economic fundamentals.” "One part of the problem is a lack of market transparency. In the oil futures market, huge volumes are offered and then withdrawn without trading - and unlike stocks and shares where large holdings have to be declared, in the oil market nobody knows where the money is coming from and who is ultimately profiting as a result. For example, large oil futures volumes are often placed on a bid, and then instantly withdrawn and a reverse offer is placed. There is no reason for this behaviour other than to distort market prices.” "Prices are particularly manipulated at the close of business, when "markers" are set on an average of trades in the last three minutes of the trading session. Every day, around these times, I see that the structure 04 September 2012 page 9 of the market is being moved to bring prices in line with the trading books of whoever is manipulating the market with huge volumes of trades. This is in order to fix the price and make sure a profit is shown on their books.” "I stand ready to work with the F.S.A., and the Office of Fair Trading, to help uncover this market manipulation in more detail." 04 September Email your local MP to ask them to attend the debate on September 13th in the House of Commons about getting a full scale Office of Fair Trading inquiry into UK fuel pricing.

Its really quite distasteful! http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmregmem/120903/brown_gordon.htm About £1.7M per annum ........... indexed linked Ex PM pension and MP salary to boot!

Looks like a lot of airframe for not much payload GGGG?

Mario Draghi…. Master of the Jedi mind tricks! So super Mario says the he will backstop the Euro come what may and to whatever end! I bet there were a few heated discussions with Frau Merkle when she read the text of his speech! What this means in effect is that the ECB will buy bond issues for the EU counties not able to use that facility for raising state debt and we see the interest payable on certain bonds coming down. Course it is still at uncomfortably high levels for the likes of Spain, Portugal, Italy etc. but it's all OK now coz the ECB will buy any amount of issue those countries throw out. This might just make sense if we saw strategic investment into economic infrastructure in those countries but what we really see is debt being issued to pay maturing debt and countries needing to borrow to pay day to day running costs. The UK is included in that bit as well! This can only work if we see increases in production (for the same cost base) and therefore GDPs growing. Looking at Spain, Portugal and Italy the stats look to be going in EXACTLY the wrong direction! Spanish Industrial production index………………..… . -5.4% (SA) Portugal Industry Turnover for July…………………… -3.8% (Domestic sales -8.2%!!!) Italy 2nd Quarter 2012 Services Turnover index....….. -6.8% These are not good numbers for countries stuck in austerity programmes because they show no real growth in their economies and looking at employment and wages the social costs must be at breaking point in other words……..Jedi mind tricks!

You got any Xmas crackers left then Keeef?

Now this looks cool..............

Citroen 2CV upgrade............

Personal transport......Russian style.

Is it a Citroen Diane? I once did a clutch on one of these and I had to take the front wings off and then the engine out. Isn't the suspension oil filled tubes.....makes going aorund corners something of an art! French version of a Beetle. Had to be able to transport livestock over a ploughed field while the farmer driver drank a bottle of vino!

I liked them.................

HOW BOOBS GOT THEIR NAME , I had no idea. You learn something every day. This is much simpler than I thought ! No need to thank me, Just trying to keep friends informed and educated!

Some people just randomly hit the keys Keaf and its dumb luck if what come out is intelligible........ Or maybe we still have the trolls.......

Ohhhh..........errrrr............what's the crack Sarge......

Unless you have at least £50K on deposit with them I wouldn't worry.............There is a government cast iron guarantee you get that back. It isn't in anyone's interest, pardon the pun, to see any bank foreclose on its depositors, that is what has just cost us circa £400 Billion now, although the way it looks to me is that shareholders were securitised never mind depositors! Course with present policy everyday we see inflation debauching the currency and the cost of living rising. Maybe things will change once the financial elite have stolen everyone's cash! Either that or people wake up and start throwing ropes over lamp-posts!

Ripped off ZH........... "The central bank of Spain just released the net capital outflow numbers and they are disastrous. During the month of June alone $70.90 billion left the Spanish banks and in July it was worse at $92.88 billion which is 4.7% of total bank deposits in Spain. For the first seven months of the year the outflow adds up to $368.80 billion or 17.7% of the total bank deposits of Spain and the trajectory of the outflow is increasing dramatically. Reality is reality and Spain is experiencing a full-fledged run on its banks whether anyone in Europe wants to admit it or not. The Spanish ten year now yields a 6.81% and their thirty year is yielding 7.34%. Spain has now set up a fund for its regions to tap of $22.6 billion and this, in my opinion, will not even be close to what is asked for or required with the regions needing some $50-75 billion in assistance in my estimation. Many of the regions in Spain are not paying suppliers or their other local debts and the situation is clearly out of control."

I know Keeaf, its maybe foxy campaigning for new members?

And everyone says I say the wrong things!!!!!!!!