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philf:
Will,

Avros and ICL.

Which AVRO? Woodford or Chadderton?

Woodford is (was) about 5m from me and ICL the same distance in the opposite direction. I know people who have worked at both.

The AVRO Heritage Museum has just opened at Woodford. I was lucky enough to get a sneak preview of the museum on the day the Vulcan gave its last fly-past.

Phil.

Imagineering:
We Apprentices got our own Back on a rather unpopular Shop Steward who had recently migrated to NZ from 'Auld Blighty'.
He happened to drive a Mini, one of the original ones, we happened to have an Alleyway between the Buildings that just happened to be as wide as a Mini is long, and not quite as wide as the diagonal of a Mini.
It was a Friday night, and he was having drinks with Management.
It wasn't there on Monday morning. Don't know how the hell he got it out as we had removed and hidden the Spark Plug Leads from the only Forklift ...

PeterE:
Hmmm, that sounds very much like what happened in Gothenburg harbour a good many years ago.

One of the dock foremen had an irritating way of parking his car in all the wrong places as he was doing his job supervising loading/unloading. Of course that did not meet well with the dock personnel so one day he seemed to have lost his car!  :bugeye:
What had happened was that the dock personnel finally got fed up and lifted his car up on top of a two-container stack, ...

... and it was only by truthfully swear the he would park the car appropriately from that moment on that he would get his car back - dock cranes are useful at times.

/Peter

leg17:
"Go to the tool crib and get me a spool of pipe thread"

Lew_Merrick_PE:
Many years ago I was working on a major US Government project.  A (30 year old) "kid" shows up with 100% brand spanking new tools and all new tool chests who did not know the difference between metric and Imperial measure.  [According to his paperwork he was a "Master Mechanic."]  So, over the first couple of days we sent him on "runs" for: prop wash, a vapor lock key, and a muffler bearing puller -- and he never caught on!  He drover more than 300 miles (in his own car at his own expense) and, whichever depot he got to would explain that their last "stock" of whatever item had just been pulled.  It turned out that he was a Congressman's kid and, going home for the weekend, his dad got him "transferred" to another project...

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