I've met many a lady who can quote you chapter and verse on parts and our local auto factors has a very knowledgable lady on the parts counter.
Generally with the increase of electronics and computer technology the business of sorting out the correct part is not a surprising job for a lady and I know many women who go on car maintenance courses.
What surprised me was to see a quite pretty young lady prepared to get oil under her fingernails all day and every day..
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So MB Stratford actually exists then? I wandered in there looking for Porsche Centre East London which had previously been at that address and found a large deserted sales floor with just a few lonely Es* scattered around like occasional tables.
Only person there was a HUGE great burly bloke who seemed to be there to stop me taking too close an interest in the Es, although he did know where Porsche had moved to.
Most incongruous.
*I've read this again and feel that I should clarify that I am referring here to an E-class Mercedes. Just in case you were worried.
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Es* the size of coffee tables.
Funnily enough, I've only ever been into the parts section!
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* Whatever the 'E' - alarming!
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I only said they were scattered like coffee tables. Not that they resembled them.
BTW - How do you put a line* in a post?
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*I mean the horizontal black character in your post - this is getting worse! sorry.....
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Plenty of the fairer sex working in the motor trade if you keep your eyes open.
Reception desks, parts counter, delivering spare parts etc are all part of the cv.
In fact one reception lassie at my local VW dealership probably knows more about the various models (and can usually proffer a pretty good guess off the top of her head as to what the problem/answer might be) than many of her male colleagues.
All power to their elbow...:-)
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Press the shift key & the hyphen key.________--------________--------_______-------
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Oh - its just an underscore. Silly me.
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Anybody know what a shaft of irony is?
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Anybody know what a shaft of irony is?
Part of the drivetrain of a Lada? ;-)
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We had a keen young girl on work experience a few years back, don't know if she carried on in the trade, though.
& Jane, 40 something boss in the MoT centre, next door has more qualifications & skills than all the mechanics in our village.
Thats a compliment to all, by the way!!
VB
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The queen was trained as a vehicle mechanic during the war, in the Women's Royal Army Corps (or something similar - not sure of exact name). In a motor mag. I've seen a wartime colour photo (a rarity in itself) of the then Princess Elizabeth, dressed in a khaki boiler suit, among some army vehicles.
Apparently there's a tale of a motorist who was broken down by the roadside in Norfolk, probably somewhere near Sandringham. A passing car stopped and the woman driver, who happened to be the queen, got out and fixed the broken down car!
Cheers, Sofa Spud
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The ambulance she drove during the war is sitting in a garage near Laucenton, Cornwall in a state of disrepair. Apparently it was mobile only a few years ago.
On topic now, the rise of females at the oily end of the trade is probably matched by the rise of females in engineering and manufacturing.
OK for years women have been driving parts delivery vehicles, operating service receptions etc, but not many have had the courage (and I mean courage in the best sence) to enter the man's (?) world of the service bays.
The truth is that many females I have worked with have a much closer attention to detail and are less sparked off by egos than male counterparts. Having worked for a company that was literally run on egos in the last few months I was there, this would have made a very nice change.
Hugo
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In the 70's I used to work in a garage on Grimsby fish docks. One day a very petite young blonde girl drove up in a mini (car). She knew exactly what the problem with the car was, didn't want to do it herself and just wanted it fixed. Nice foreign accent, she turned out to be Danish, and a motor mechanic. I remember her saying that one of her girl friends was also a motor mechanic, and that female mechanics weren't that unusual in Denmark.
More recently, I often have to visit the local HGV testing station,(vehicle and driving test), and often see young ladies there taking their HGV (LGV) driving test.
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I'm currently working for the local Audi dealer on a summer job away from uni, and aside from various admin females on site, three out of four Service advisors are female (and all attractive), and two of 10 sales people are female. Plus just started this week we have a 16y/o female apprentice who is training to become a full Audi qualified technician, they do exist...
Chris
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Called into the Peugeot dealer today and there was a girl on the parts counter - blonde, tall, pretty, about nineteen and, I hate to say it, absolutely useless: reluctant to help and showing no knowledge or enthusiasm whatsoever.
However, in the interests of fairness, I should point out that, apart from being prettier, she is no different from any of her male colleagues.
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Wasn't Kylie a mechanic in Neighbours? (Wife used to watch it, not me, honest).
Five inch fingernails, 300 dollar hair-do and always the same cute little grease mark on her cheek. Very realistic.
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I wonder if pictures of Her Maj in uniform exist...
My Dad has often said the Queen was "a very attractive lady with a fantastic figure" in her youth.
A photo would put a smile on his face.
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one of the daily tabloids (Sun,i think!) ran some photo,s of her in uniform, and under the bonnet of a truck, as part of the "golden" celebrations, maybe they have the photo`s in an archive, and may be prepared to let you have some?
billy.
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The thought just occurred to me that if we had lost the war her Majesty might have been forced to find a job in the local garage.
I conjured up a mental image of her rolling out from under a car on a trolley, giving the dreaded mechanics low whistle and saying to the customer ' ones big end appears to be gone'....
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