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Re: How easy we engineers have it now!
maltheviking wrote:I wouldn’t have time to dunk a second rich tea 😆
Very, very good reply Mal (love the avatar by the way that is brilliant – all your own work I wonder?)
kwatt wrote:That was the point I was trying to make in a way earlier.
Your point wasn’t lost Ken by the way, I for one know where you are coming from as I’ve been there, done that mate, no worries 😀
Overall its a great job, and it has its many rewards in many ways over and above our weekly wage.
Ooooh must dash – Ive just got a Repairs@ email, oooh Hotpoint Tumble dryer gone bust?….Lovely jubly….!!! 8)
Re: How easy we engineers have it now!
GB senior has just seen me reading this thread, and now he’s talking about a Commer Cobb? C-reg, with no heater. What the ‘H’ is a Commer Cobb? Then he says he was upgraded to a Morris Minor, with a heater 🙂
He’s a little upset actually 🙁 He went to fix a twin tub last week. He always asks the customers how they got in touch with us, and this one said…
“I rung ********* Services, and they siad that they didn’t have an engineer old enough to fix twin tubs! Ring Grahame 👿
Re: How easy we engineers have it now!
Goatboy wrote:GB senior has just seen me reading this thread, and now he’s talking about a Commer Cobb? C-reg, with no heater. What the ‘H’ is a Commer Cobb? Then he says he was upgraded to a Morris Minor, with a heater 🙂 He’s a little upset actually 🙁 He went to fix a twin tub last week. He always asks the customers how they got in touch with us, and this one said…”I rung ********* Services, and they siad that they didn’t have an engineer old enough to fix twin tubs! Ring Grahame 👿
Commer Cob was the van derivient of the Hilman Minx mkIV. C reg would have been 1965 vintage, quite a modern vehicle to have issued. The later Cob was from the Hillman Imp, and became the Hillman Husky. Useless thing, as the engine was in the back, and meant the rear access was poor.
My 1st issue was a 1962 Ford 100E van. Side valve engine with 3 gears & no syncho on 1st. As a result I can still double de-clutch when selecting gears, despite owning an automatic these days. No heater, no screen washers, only one sun visor etc. No radio, there again there was nothing to listen to. (Radio 1 had just been invented and was rubbish, except Peelie, who was on Sundays). The wipers were driven off the vacuum in the manifold. Which meant if the van was pulling, there wasn’t a vacuum, and the wipers would barely move, as soon as you took your foot of the throttle, they would beat frantically across the screen. After commuting to work on a motor bike, this was bliss.
Beats the chariot that was just before this.
Alex
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