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So that explains the Louise thing... All just some mad science gone wrong
Why are there two 'no entry signs?
QUOTE: <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #444444; font-size: 12px;">Rolls Royce Pegasus </span>
(yes I can't be arsed trying to get the forum quote to work)
The Pegasus was my first thought but I thought I would double check. You might want to check the original inspiration for vectored thrust.
"Cash" "point"
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Austin Metro/Montego?
I mean apart from Lada (which at least had instant cult status) did anyone else in the developed world make anything quite as bad?
Even in the third world they at least just bought tooling for old cars and kept them going.
lets not confuse design with invention. Though the concept of vectored thrust was not novel, the pegasus was the first engine to be able to achieve it through design. Nobody else had been able to achieve it first, so absolutely qualifies as a British design. Bit like saying the Mini doesn't qualify because the concept of a car was already established.
You mean the third world, the world of objective contents of thoughts?
Sums up British design to me... eccentric solution to a non-existent problem.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/x0Dj7XA77hw
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A LandRover is not truly unique though, based on the idea behind the Willys Jeep!
The original full colour-coded fire extinguishers maybe? The EU even adopted it but dumbed the colour down to a band on a red extinguisher so they all look like CO2 ones.
The story of its design is brilliant. In practice it was brilliant. It’s only flaw was they named it after the wrong person. It was named after Herbert Morrison but it was Ellen Wilkinson’s project.
<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12px;">"Why are there two ‘no entry signs?"</span>
The one on the left with a white background can have exemptions put on a plate below it, the other one can't.
Beaten to the Millau by... at least three hours.
The windmill, probably not, however the Broads River Cruiser, most definitely
How does one edit the size of the image without having to guess the dimensions?
I’m also glad I’m not the only David Mellor nerd here
Mini 1 = Issigonis
Mini 2 = A team of brits being shouted at by Germans (i did some of the tooling for the cooling.)
Mini 3 = Essentially what they've got now, mostly German (think it had almost a complete platform change in 2007 or 2008)
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Thought the roundabout was a yank invention?
Anyone already mentioned the TV ?
Millau eh? OK, the architect is British. But the bloke who made it stand up is French.
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Designed by the person who also designed the Spitfire undercarriage, for his daughter, so she could get on a bus whilst still holding his grandchild. Ok so it chopped off a few fingers in America, but anyone born after 1972 probably sat in one.
Milky80The original full colour-coded fire extinguishers maybe? The EU even adopted it but dumbed the colour down to a band on a red extinguisher so they all look like CO2 ones.
Please don't be in a fire with me!
Old CO2 Black
Old Water Red
Was going to say the Black & Decker Workmate but
Ronald Price Hickman OBE was, it turns out, born in South Africa..
</span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12px;">I’m also glad I’m not the only David Mellor nerd here
LOL I was tempted to post some of his cutlery but didn't want to completely confuse folks
How about
Robin Nicholas
OK not that unique.
1) Napalm
2) The London Taxi
3) The Concentration Camp
4) Long Forked Hardtails
5) The Tank
6) Bike Parks (not shure about this one but hey for better or worse let's take the
credit)
7) Some great motorbike designs before the suits arrived
8) Hovercraft
BTW my MG Montego was fast as f...k and I loved it.
That was the point I was making but without any emoji's it kind of read funny. Seeing as the edit function didn't work I thought I'd just leave it and see if someone spotted it #winky emoji#
That Mini up there ^^ is British built but it’s a BMW.
[i]This[/i], on the other hand, is a PROPER Mini!:
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You sure about that Milky 😉 😮 🙂
Tarmacadam
"LOL I was tempted to post some of his cutlery but didn’t want to completely confuse folks"
I made a 500 mile round trip to Heathersage to replace my 25 year old Mellor £3 wooden spoon last year. Came back with £500 worth of Pride 🙂
Pretty much anyone who had the old cast alloy Workmate in their shed probably had a pair of Mellor's garden sheers in there too.
"Tarmacadam"
and before that - plain old Macadam. Although MacAdam didn't invent 'Tarmacadam' his nickname was 'Tar MacAdam'. He had a tar factory up the road from here but it didn't seem to occur to him to mix his tar manufacturing (which he used for waterproofing ropes) with his road building.
Alex Moulton's pioneering small-wheeled bicycle
Which directly inspired the
Never thought I would see a pic of Reg Varney on STW.
Crikey.
A British designed train wreck ? 😀
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^^ Just noticed he couldn't find an "E" in his play set.Lol 😀
Can we have Punk?
Can we have Punk?
Oh hells yes
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