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I have two microwave oven transformers that I used on my MOFO build before replacing them with chokes.

FOC to any regular forum member at Owston Saturday session.

Steve, if you need any parts for this ask on here. I've got a lot of things that in reality, I'm never going to use so I'd rather see them go to a good home.

All I really want to keep is anything particular to my 833a build.

Yes, there were many reasons why the British car industry disappeared.

At one time the only truly British car company's were TVR, Reliant and Morgan. Two of those have gone and the other is no longer truly British.

Homeless - Ladysmith Black Mambazo - A Cappella Cover | Cape Town Youth Choir.

One of my favourite choirs, listen on headphones if possible.

Apart from maybe Minis no one thinks of those cars in any kind of reverence that some do of say an Alfa though. There's a reason (or several) why we don't have a car industry any more. I don't have any experiences of Alfa cars, although friends told me the Alfasud was good until such time it rusted...

My first car was a yellow Austin Allagro. £600. It was the sports version as it only had 2 doors ;-). Only ever ran on 3 of the 4 cylinders. I remember jacking it up one day to change the wheel and the cill collapsed on to the jack because of corrosion. There was a little more ventilation in the ca...

Many years ago I was working for a Motor Factors in Heybridge, near Maldon in Essex.

One day I called at a small premises in Maldon town, and in the back part was a machine knocking out plastic (or nylon) Lockheed master cylinder screw caps as used on Minis and other British cars.

Another good actor gone, he had a great sense of humour.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39408742

andrew Ivimey wrote: ↑Thu Sep 28, 2023 3:51 pm It appears that a 16year old boy has been arrested. Someone will ask him 'why!?' I'm sure.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-66952980

What makes people do things like this ?

Whoever it was was obviously determined, wandering around chainsaw in hand.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-66947040

andrew Ivimey wrote: ↑Thu Sep 28, 2023 12:17 pm Thanks Phil, persuasive? Perhaps. Did the source describe the sample and size of 'Americans' who were asked this question?

Can't remember to be honest.

I saw a survey where Americans were asked "what is the most British car of all time".

The answer was the Mini Cooper, the original early 60s one not the BMW version.

andrew Ivimey wrote: ↑Thu Sep 28, 2023 10:17 am Ah, just read Phil's post. Looks like I'm wrong about the Mini. I've never heard of the British Greek chap.

You've never heard of Sir Alexander Arnold Constantine Issigonis CBE ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alec_Issigonis

andrew Ivimey wrote: ↑Thu Sep 28, 2023 9:59 am And I'm sure the geezer who designed the Mini also dreamed up the Lambretta scooter.He was not English or even British.

Not so Andrew.

Alex Issigonis was British /Greek and had no connection with Innocenti till British Leyland sub contracted Mini building and eventually took them over in 1972.

Erm I thought the mini was Italian. What ? :shock: Alex Issigonis was a British-Greek automotive designer. He designed the Mini, launched by the British Motor Corporation in 1959, and voted the second most influential car of the 20th century in 1999. There was an Italian modified version of the BMC...