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[WelshGas]

Love it.

'Welcome to Luton' stunt panics Gatwick Airport arrivals

YouTuber, Max Fosh, says the "prank" is to put smiles on faces and is sorry for any confusion caused.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Amarillo]

Expect long tailbacks if the wind drops.

 

[Amarillo]

Apparently you can tow three trailers, but only behind a traction engine...

A47 steam engine towing three vehicles stopped at 5mph

The steam engine was towing a caravan, a 4x4 and a trailer at 5mph on the A47 in Norfolk.

www.bbc.co.uk

Item	Class of vehicles	Exceptions
1	A straddle carrier	—
2	An invalid carriage	—
3	An articulated bus	—
4	A bus not being an articulated bus or a mini bus	(a) 1 broken down bus where no person other than the driver is carried in either vehicle or (b)1 trailer
5	A locomotive	3 trailers
6	A motor tractor	1 trailer, 2 trailers if neither is laden
7	A heavy motor car or a motor car not described in item 1, 3 or 4	2 trailers if one of them is a towing implement and part of the other is secured to and either rests on or is suspended from that implement, 1 trailer in any other case
8	An agricultural motor vehicle	(a) in respect of trailers other than agricultural trailers and agricultural trailed appliances, such trailers as are permitted under items 5, 6 or 7 above,as the case may be; or (b) in respect of agricultural trailers and agricultural trailed appliances — (i) 2 unladen agricultural trailers, or (ii)1 agricultural trailer and 1 agricultural trailed appliance, or (iii)2 agricultural trailed appliances

 

[The Pox]

Apparently you can tow three trailers, but only behind a traction engine...

A47 steam engine towing three vehicles stopped at 5mph

The steam engine was towing a caravan, a 4x4 and a trailer at 5mph on the A47 in Norfolk.

www.bbc.co.uk

An original Roadtrain only a bit slower.

 

[andyinluton]

Extract from an article below about complaints re Traction engines causing delays on roads - was published in 1912 - nice to see somethings don't change.


Tractor or Traction Engine?
There continues to be no small measure of confusion in the public mind as to the differences between tractors and traction engines. The whole series of these road engines are classed together, and the smaller and more modern steam-horse is anathematized undeservedly.
The tractor is a light machine, constructed in accordance with the Motor Car Acts and the Heavy Motor Car Order, which -must weigh not more than five tons unladen, and which must. haul not more than a single truck behind it, whilst a traction engine may weight anything between 3 and 14 tons unlad-n, and may haul three ponderous trucks with an additional watercart. Thus, the tractor is never responsible for those undue delays on the road for which marey a traction engine and its train of wagons are to be blamed at times.

 

[Vagophile]

Good old Fred D would have given chapter and verse.
I used to live on a country lane about two miles from the showground at Stoneleigh and at least three times a year we had scores of steam traction engines and road rollers passing the end of our drive on the way to and returning from events. I think most planned their route to cause as little inconvenience as possible. Nowadays many that are hobby vehicles are trailed on low loaders.

 

[GrumpyGranddad]

Drink don’t drive.

 

[This Eva]

A spot of lunch needed some ketchup. Not the normal leading brand but very nice. So I read the label

 

[Corradobrit]

A spot of lunch needed some ketchup. Not the normal leading brand but very nice. So I read the label

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Haha. Tosser's unite.

 

[Amarillo]

A spot of lunch needed some ketchup. Not the normal leading brand but very nice. So I read the label

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Reading all that makes me want to buy a bottle.

 

[This Eva]

Reading all that makes me want to buy a bottle.

It tasted lovely so I think I will buy some too.

 

[Amarillo]

 

[WelshGas]

Well this is one way of stopping a car thief.

Australian man uses forklift to stop would-be thief stealing his car

Brendan Mills used the forklift to suspend the car - and the would-be thief - until police arrived.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[larrylamb]

 

[The Pox]

Whilst on Holy Island it was great to see the National Lottery funds be used for such good purposes...

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[Amarillo]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1541501121931386880

 

[Vagophile]

Ref #1116, Why?

 

[Amarillo]

Ref #1116, Why?

To prove that the wheel can be reinvented?

 

[Amarillo]

Ref #1116, Why?

Art?

 

[Amarillo]

Ref #1116, Why?

Engineering challenge?

 

[Amarillo]

Ref #1116, Why?

To circumvent “no bicycles” signs?

 

[Vagophile]

To circumvent “no bicycles” signs?

So if it's not a bicycle, what is it?

 

[Amarillo]

So if it's not a bicycle, what is it?

I don’t think it’s a unicycle, because it has more than one wheel. It’s not a bicycle because it doesn’t have two wheels. It is not a tricycle because it doesn’t have three wheels.

I think it’s a uni- plus two demi-cycles.

 

[Vagophile]

Is it British? It's this kind of thinking that made the country great. Some-one has gone to a lot of trouble to produce this and demonstrae that it works. Then what?

 

[Amarillo]

Is it British? It's this kind of thinking that made the country great. Some-one has gone to a lot of trouble to produce this and demonstrae that it works. Then what?

The park where it is being ridden doesn’t look like it’s in the UK.

I’m not sure what practical purpose it might serve. I see it bumping down the kerb, but wonder what would happen bumping up a kerb if the demi-wheels were not aligned correctly.