At the Bristol Cars' plant in Filton, Bristol,
tinyurl.com/2wer2t
Not sure how they managed to bring a crane in and a couple of lorries to dismantle 10 presses with no one noticing.
The police comment made me smile - " Anyone who has been offered large amounts of metal alloy for sale in suspicious circumstances is being urged to call police. "
Not the sort of thing you get offered from the man in the pub
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i find it a bit amazing that they dont even have a worker call in on a sat/sun morning to make sure the factory is secure,afterall aluminium is the in thing to steal at the moment as on the news thieves have been stealing fire brigade couplings made of the stuff in doncaster that are being used to get rid of the flood waters.
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>>Anyone who has been offered large amounts of metal alloy for sale in suspicious
>>circumstances is being urged to call police.
The thieves will know exactly where to sell their pickings on to without anyone batting an eyelid. There are plenty of scrap metal dealers who will buy anything - no questions asked. If you are really interested in knowing who in your area will buy scrap metal without worrying about its origins, just notice where the travellers go to sell on their wares.
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The presses were stolen by art lovers, offended by such god awful shapes being created and let loose on our roads.
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Snigger. OOh! Get her!
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The one in that link just looks like an old Jag :-S
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The one in that link just looks like an old Jag :-S
i thought the same
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>> The one in that link just looks like an old Jag :-S i thought the same
And from the back an old Senator, since that's where the lights are borrowed from.
www.bristolcars.co.uk/Blenheim3.htm
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How much would the car pictured in James's link sell for? The driver's door looks like it's come from a scrapyard - it doesn't fit and it isn't even the same shade of blue as the rest of the car. The whole thing has the air of the kind of minicab that looks as if the driver made it at home - the kind that makes me think I'd rather walk.
There are many fields in which traditional methods and craftsmanship are to be respected and encouraged, but I cannot even begin to imagine why anyone would want one of these things.
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Oh please dont go there, we have had this before. I would rather not be reminded of those sheds.
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"The presses were stolen by art lovers.."
And will soon be appearing as an installation, entered for the Turner prize.
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The police comment made me smile - " Anyone who has been offered large amounts of metal alloy for sale in suspicious circumstances is being urged to call police. "
It makes me smile as well. The presses would be for pressing alloy, not made of alloy.
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L\'escargot.
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The crane would be of the fixed variety and be used for maintaining the presses and other plant in the factory and not the mobile lorry type.
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It's incredable what people can get away with stealing. I worked for London Borough of Redbridge in the early eighties and they layed a new paved footpath on a main road in Chadwell Heath. The next day some enterprising chaps came along, took the whole lot up, loaded it in on a couple of trucks and drove it away.
It was not far from the police traffic garage and council vehicles used that road on a regular basis, yet nobody batted an eyelid at the "workmen" going about their business.
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"It's incredible what people can get away with stealing"
Indeed. But who thinks to challenge people apparently doing their job? If you wear the right gear and have your own lorry, it usually looks OK, and you need to be fairly positive to accuse a gang of heavies of stealing!
Funnily enough, our local school is being rebuilt, and a neighbour came upon a guy in overalls loading his pickup with (expensive) insulation panels. It being a Sunday, she asked him where he was taking them. If he had said "back to the depot", that would have been the end of it, but instead he said "none of your business", so she took his number!
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It used to be said that if you stand up straight and don't drop your aitches people will believe anything you say.
But last time I was in the UK it seemed like everyone was saying 'haitch' anyway!
I 'ope this makes sense to somebody.
And - while I'm here - what the hey is a 'Bristol Fighter'? Apart from somebody staggering about Old Market at 2am, that is.
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Terrible name mh, but may be a terrific motor. V10 twin-turbo thingie with gullwing doors and very little aerodynamic flimflam on the outside. Supposed to be capable of well over 200mph....
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And James May's champing at the bit because the manufacturer's won't let him have one to play with.
I had a teacher who used to say loudly, clearly and precisely:
"THERE'S ONLY ONE AITCH IN AITCH"
I come from Lu'on, famous for making 'a's (those things you put on your 'ead).
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Where will this 'haitch' thing end? I know - let's make all the letters begin with the sound they make. So if it's to be 'haitch', it had better be 'feff', 'lell' and 'sess' as well.
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Incidentally, did anyone else notice that the Daily Mail's swear filter had censored (part of) the word 'nightwatchman' in one of the reader comments?
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I also liked the comment:
Bristol Cars ... warned the raid could hit production.
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