Spotted - "Police" Train

"Neillw001" <wormwood001@m> wrote in message
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> If I remember right, the story that went around about that ad was that
> they painted the loco concerned with the wrong paint, that didn't wash
> off as expected. They then had to drive it a considerable distance to
> to get a repaint, with it still wearing its Police livery.

Indeed that was the case - the paint was supposed to wash off, but didn't.
With the filming done on the Newcastle-Carlisle line (IIRC), 37093 was taken
to Stratford for a repaint back into standard blue.

> Isn't it a legal requirement to carry a spare wheel in a car?
>

No, but if carried it must be legal. Counter-examples: Honda Accords,
which come with a sealant/inflator spray and no spare wheel.

ian

<i.g.batten@batten.eu.org> wrote in message
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>> Isn't it a legal requirement to carry a spare wheel in a car?
>>
>
> No, but if carried it must be legal. Counter-examples: Honda Accords,
> which come with a sealant/inflator spray and no spare wheel.

I think nearly all BMWs now come with run-flat tyres and no spare by
default. Even if you can buy an optional spare, it'll be a skinny space
saver. That presumably also applies to the Mini as well (and RR too?).

And, of course, even if a car has the now rare luxury of five full size
tryes, if you get a puncture and replace a wheel, you'll be driving for
a while with no usable spare, so it can't be mandatory to have one.

mike. buckley wrote:
>
> Hmm, cute advert, slightly before my time. Anywhere know where 47829
> was going? Scrap?

See my earlier response (at 00:02).

"Stimpy" <stimpy1997ukm> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:09:38 +0100, Recliner wrote
>>> Honda Accords,
>>> which come with a sealant/inflator spray and no spare wheel.
>>
>> I think nearly all BMWs now come with run-flat tyres and no spare by
>> default. Even if you can buy an optional spare, it'll be a skinny
>> space saver. That presumably also applies to the Mini as well (and
>> RR too?).
>
> My partner's recent 5-series had run-flats as standard and no spare.
> A spare was an extra-cost option

Yes, that's one of a number of things that put me off buying yet another
5-series last year, after having had a series of them from 1988. For a
variety of reasons, I bought a car that does have the option of a
full-sized spare (which I took). But the huge, (and, in my view,
unnecessarily) wide and heavy wheels of many modern cars do steal a lot
of boot space, which is why so many manufacturers no longer offer
full-sized spare wheels, even as an option.

In message <0001HW.C502F80E02CBF7C7F0407648@news.eclipse.co.u k>, at
20:35:26 on Fri, 26 Sep 2008, Stimpy <stimpy1997ukm> remarked:
>> I think nearly all BMWs now come with run-flat tyres and no spare by
>> default. Even if you can buy an optional spare, it'll be a skinny space
>> saver. That presumably also applies to the Mini as well (and RR too?).
>
>My partner's recent 5-series had run-flats as standard and no spare. A spare
>was an extra-cost option

It was once said that the steering wheel on a BMW was an extra-cost
option. (And don't laugh, paint really was an option on Transit vans).
--
Roland Perry

Pyromancer twisted the electrons to say:
> there are huge numbers of drivers who's vehicle knowledge stops at "how
> to drive it".

There are huge numbers of drivers whose knowledge stops well short of
that point.
--
These opinions might not even be mine ...
Let alone connected with my employer ...