As we are more than just a car club/ how are you all coping with COVID-19

[boosted]

Not allowed to wear a mask....



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[Casey]

I'm surprised they are preventing you from taking sensible protection action. Can they really do that? What happens if you don't comply? Is there anything in your job contract that prevents you from wearing a mask?

It seems likely that official advice will change soon to state wearing a mask has benefits, providing precautions are taken in removing it, and clarifying its not a substitute for social distancing.

[Jamie R]

Well I dunno how many of you know Jesse? (Hobbawobba)

There is a worldwide pandemic going on and this kid manages to get chickenpox !!!

He’s definitely one in a million lol


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[boosted]

I was livid tbh...my 2 workmates complied and took them straight off which left me the nail sticking out...so i didnt leave the workshop for the rest of the shift and put my phone on charge...
People are thick rumours went round that the engineers have the virus and thats why there wearing masks......



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[Grant Monkhouse]

I work all over the country, mainly down south and mostly in and around the London area. Sainsbury's and tesco that I do work for have stopped most works, so I'm at home in my. New house trying to work on my car as much as I can

Kids are annoying, can't go anywhere, I have just recently started judo with my son and now we're stuck not being able to go to that.

Other than that, I have a little cough, caught from my daughter who has a had a horrible flemmy cough for a few weeks now.

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[jinx]

Random act of viral diversion…a Michael Caine moment.

Contentedly drooling over pictures of Italian exotica (from the nineteen forties - something of a guilty passion for me) I idly wondered why the beautiful Alfa 6C Cabriolet was right hand drive.  One link led to another and the question about why so many get it ‘wrong’ as regards their choice.

Driving (or even walking) on the left was common sense until the late 1700’s for the obvious reason; it kept your lance or sword hand on the same side as the guy coming the other way.  This in turn meant most people followed the military practice of mounting a horse from the left to avoid striking the poor beast with sword or scabbard whilst getting on.  The UK government’s first ever ‘keep left’ recommendation in the General Highways Act of 1773 was therefore only an extension of common practice.

In France, the keep left rule was adhered to for all the same reasons but also biased by social class.  The rich and aristocratic (the ones with swords) used the left, the rest using the right - presumably looking over their shoulder a good deal. Come the revolution, the smarter aristocrats began using the right to identify with what was unquestionably, already the winning side. In post revolutionary Paris the first ‘keep right’ rule was laid down in 1794, at the height of 'The Terror', lifting it beyond a reflection of 'people-power' to make it the law.

Naturally the sword rule applied practically everywhere else and might have left the French out on a limb were it not for Napoleon….who was left handed.  His army marched on the right because he wanted his sword arm facing the other guy - the common soldiery were obviously expected to take their own chances.  By the time he had finished annexing various parts of Europe the ‘keep right’ rule had currency in more and more places.

In an age of empires it became a straight fight. Anywhere we went, we took the ‘Left’ rule with us. Similarly, the French exported their own ideas, which takes us to America.  The French had a guiding hand in the former British colony around the time of its independence. (Because they liked the British about as much as Americans did for broadly similar reasons and were well up for revolutions; their own being in full flow at home.)  Courtesy of one General Lafeyette, the first written rule on which side of US highways to use dates from 1792 on the Lancaster to Philadelphia turnpike, both places being, at one time or another, the capital of the new nation until 1800 when a different town got the job full time. Washington DC was a clean sheet, green field site; the whole city being designed from scratch…by a Frenchman.

Italy drove on the left until 1924 and even after it officially swapped across, lots of drivers preferred a right hand drive car because most roads were narrow and they were accustomed to gauging distances from their right. Throw in a little of the French class distinction and even when the bottom of the market moved the wheel to the left, prestige marques, many with a racing pedigree, kept the wheel on the right. (Racing cars often adopted a RHD solution to improve corner sighting on the predominantly clockwise tracks. Even though Brooklands, the world's first purpose built race track, mostly ran anti-clockwise.)

There is a suggestion that after 1924, RHD made it easy, safe and quick for the Italian chauffeur and passengers to slip seamlessly to the pavement after the car pulled up. Since cars have doors both sides that seems less convincing than a resistance to change by person’s of quality …few of whom would surely have cared what risk the chauffeur had to run to get the relevant back door open.  The 1924 drive on the right law followed the crooked election that put Mussolini into power thanks to mob rule. He was famously all for the right… in anything… so presumably did not care.

That answered my original question, but it left the outstanding one as far as this forum is concerned….Why do the Japanese drive on the right?  Our fault again it turns out.

The general Highways Act of 1773 enshrined the Keep Left rule for the road and when railways arrived it was natural they would adopt the same standard for ‘iron roads’ too.   What does this have to do with Japan?  Well, we sold them and built their first railways.  The Japanese inherited the 'keep left' rule for trains from us in 1872, almost three decades before cars got their start. With almost a century of UK convention lending it weight, even before the country mechanised, Japan was applying the 1773 UK act’s logic in reverse - railways to highways as opposed to the other way round.

I thought it was interesting and I can’t promise the virus won’t strike again but if you read this far, you know just what I mean. 

[Jamie R]

What virus?

I found it interesting regardless


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[clive]

Thank you Andrew, sad git I am I love reading this sort of thing.

I had heard a minuscule explanation of the fact that initially four wheel  motorised vehicles even in America were RHD, but never with such detailed reasoning so thank you. I love trivia so keep em coming.

So here’s a poser, how did one way systems originate and are supermarkets going to be instigating one way systems to stop people contaminating each other.

On a different shocking note, I confess I did exclaim this morning after seeing the New York burials, that sadly it was the same as  something from medieval times  

[re japi]

Random act of viral diversion…a Michael Caine moment.

Contentedly drooling over pictures of Italian exotica (from the nineteen forties - something of a guilty passion for me) I idly wondered why the beautiful Alfa 6C Cabriolet was right hand drive.  One link led to another and the question about why so many get it ‘wrong’ as regards their choice.

Driving (or even walking) on the left was common sense until the late 1700’s for the obvious reason; it kept your lance or sword hand on the same side as the guy coming the other way.  This in turn meant most people followed the military practice of mounting a horse from the left to avoid striking the poor beast with sword or scabbard whilst getting on.  The UK government’s first ever ‘keep left’ recommendation in the General Highways Act of 1773 was therefore only an extension of common practice.

In France, the keep left rule was adhered to for all the same reasons but also biased by social class.  The rich and aristocratic (the ones with swords) used the left, the rest using the right - presumably looking over their shoulder a good deal. Come the revolution, the smarter aristocrats began using the right to identify with what was unquestionably, already the winning side. In post revolutionary Paris the first ‘keep right’ rule was laid down in 1794, at the height of 'The Terror', lifting it beyond a reflection of 'people-power' to make it the law.

Naturally the sword rule applied practically everywhere else and might have left the French out on a limb were it not for Napoleon….who was left handed.  His army marched on the right because he wanted his sword arm facing the other guy - the common soldiery were obviously expected to take their own chances.  By the time he had finished annexing various parts of Europe the ‘keep right’ rule had currency in more and more places.

In an age of empires it became a straight fight. Anywhere we went, we took the ‘Left’ rule with us. Similarly, the French exported their own ideas, which takes us to America.  The French had a guiding hand in the former British colony around the time of its independence. (Because they liked the British about as much as Americans did for broadly similar reasons and were well up for revolutions; their own being in full flow at home.)  Courtesy of one General Lafeyette, the first written rule on which side of US highways to use dates from 1792 on the Lancaster to Philadelphia turnpike, both places being, at one time or another, the capital of the new nation until 1800 when a different town got the job full time. Washington DC was a clean sheet, green field site; the whole city being designed from scratch…by a Frenchman.

Italy drove on the left until 1924 and even after it officially swapped across, lots of drivers preferred a right hand drive car because most roads were narrow and they were accustomed to gauging distances from their right. Throw in a little of the French class distinction and even when the bottom of the market moved the wheel to the left, prestige marques, many with a racing pedigree, kept the wheel on the right. (Racing cars often adopted a RHD solution to improve corner sighting on the predominantly clockwise tracks. Even though Brooklands, the world's first purpose built race track, mostly ran anti-clockwise.)

There is a suggestion that after 1924, RHD made it easy, safe and quick for the Italian chauffeur and passengers to slip seamlessly to the pavement after the car pulled up. Since cars have doors both sides that seems less convincing than a resistance to change by person’s of quality …few of whom would surely have cared what risk the chauffeur had to run to get the relevant back door open.  The 1924 drive on the right law followed the crooked election that put Mussolini into power thanks to mob rule. He was famously all for the right… in anything… so presumably did not care.

That answered my original question, but it left the outstanding one as far as this forum is concerned….Why do the Japanese drive on the right?  Our fault again it turns out.

The general Highways Act of 1773 enshrined the Keep Left rule for the road and when railways arrived it was natural they would adopt the same standard for ‘iron roads’ too.   What does this have to do with Japan?  Well, we sold them and built their first railways.  The Japanese inherited the 'keep left' rule for trains from us in 1872, almost three decades before cars got their start. With almost a century of UK convention lending it weight, even before the country mechanised, Japan was applying the 1773 UK act’s logic in reverse - railways to highways as opposed to the other way round.

I thought it was interesting and I can’t promise the virus won’t strike again but if you read this far, you know just what I mean. 

Wow, thats really interesting

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[clive]

Hope your all still well.

China, never one to miss an opportunity, the offers of dodgy coils and tin foil exhaust's has finally stopped, instead we are getting these mails all the time now !

Provide KN95,N95,disposable mask/high quality/low price

[boosted]

Just got 1 of my pension statements....jesus Covid 19 has hit that hard!!! couldve bought a mint rx7 fd with the money lost!!!  

[clive]

Thread resurection, how are you all getting on.

This amused me about the lock down.

Just be careful because people are going crazy from being in lock down! Actually I've just been talking about this with the microwave and toaster while drinking coffee and we all agreed that things are getting bad. I didn't mention anything to the washing machine as she puts a different spin on everything. Certainly not to the fridge as he is acting cold and distant. In the end the iron straightened me out as she said everything will be fine, no situation is too pressing. The vacuum was very unsympathetic... told me to just suck it up, but the fan was more optimistic and hoped it would all soon blow over! The toilet looked a bit flushed when I asked its opinion and didn’t say anything but the door knob told me to get a grip.😬 The front door said I was unhinged and so the curtains told me to ........yes, you guessed it 😝.....pull myself together.

[Jamie R]

Right my first gripe about covid19

Couriers and deliveries.

When you order supplies on a Sunday and it’s still not here on a Thursday.

I could have walked to Redruth quicker and fetched it .

Does Boris not realise I have a rotus to build


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I bought an undertray for mx5..3 to 5 days...then when got the despatch note 10 to 15 due to covid....i cancelled and got refunded...so made my own..

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[Jamie R]

I bought an undertray for mx5..3 to 5 days...then when got the despatch note 10 to 15 due to covid....i cancelled and got refunded...so made my own..

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Good work mate !

Looks really good. You going any further back ?

I wish I could make my own polyester resin, I’d save a fortune !


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