Running In

[John F Collier]

At the age of 80, Stirling Moss fell down a lift shaft in 2020 breaking both feet and ankles he also had serious back injuries, he was a
tough old bird and still managed to have a laugh and joke, he lived for another ten years and died aged 90 earlier this year RIP.

[Keith at Tregenna]

Just some trivia from Wales, that may be of interest in this thread:

Motoring and aviation pioneer Charles Stewart Rolls who together with Fredrick Henry Royce co-founded the Rolls-Royce car manufacturing firm, was born on 27th August 1877 in Berkley Square, London, the third son of Lord and Lady Llangattock and throughout his life Rolls would retain a strong connection with the family’s Gothic mansion of The Hendre, near Monmouth.

After graduating with a degree in engineering from Cambridge, Rolls went to Paris to buy his first car, a Peugeot Phaeton, whichs incidentaly was one of the first three cars owned in Wales. He then began a car dealership in Fulham, during which time he met with Henry Royce, who was manufacturing the two-cylinder Royce 10. Rolls agreed to take all the cars Royce could make and this was the beginning of the famous partnership with, Royce building and Rolls selling.

The pair worked to improve the reliability of cars and had a very meticulous attention to detail. Their cars were designed for the richest people in the country and Rolls was the first person to take George V and Queen Mary for a ride in a car in 1900. By 1906, they had formally bound their names together as the new Rolls Royce Company and launched their classic Silver Ghost.

Rolls was also involved in forcing an increase in the national speed limit from 4 to 12 miles per hour and was a founding member of the Royal Aero Club. He also enjoyed flying balloons and planes. In 1910, he became the first pilot to fly across the channel and back in a single journey, but tragically later that year, aged just 32, he was the first man to die in an aeronautical accident when the tail of his Wright Flyer broke off during a flying display in Bournemouth.

As said, hope it is of interest, added before all gets air brushed.

Keith.

[happy daze john in oz]

thats very cheap for a service on Land Rover

No Tony, that was just the price of the battery.
The total service cost was another $650 on top of that.

[Colin Wood]

Join me in regressing. Have bought an MG ZS, 3 cylinder turbo charged. Automatic and cruise control though had to get extra window tint to for use in tropics. Gret drive and have joined local MG Car CLub.

[Tony Taylor]

No Tony, that was just the price of the battery.
The total service cost was another $650 on top of that.

ha ha, that sounds more like it!

[John Arton]

If for some reason your car battery runs flat, don't bother to use a battery charger to charge it up, instead Halfords in the U.K sell for £45 a battery booster. Connect that to your car battery, switch it on and hey presto it will give your battery sufficient charge to start the car. This assumes you don't have jump leads and access to another car and that your alternator is working. The booster is charged using a standard home electrical socket.
Rgds
J.A.

[Ivan Cloherty]

#79 but please do read the charger's and your car's handbook before connecting anything, as mis-connecting can blow all your car's electrics or ruin the diagnostic system and your car is unlikely to start at all should the latter occur and each car manufacturer has their own systems, some terminal to terminal, some one terminal to one terminal and the other terminal to the cars body, or even a specially designed bolt instead of the body.

[Fouro]

Tony Taylor #68. Stirling Moss drove for Vanwall but never won the world title, runner up a few times. I think he only drove British made cars unlike Mike Hawthorn who won the title driving for Ferrari.

The Vanwall driven by Stirling Moss won the International Trophy at Silverstone in 1956.
At Aintree in 1957 the Vanwall again driven by Moss succeeded in getting a first World Championship win for a British car against the might of Lancia-Ferrari and Maserati cars.
Stirling Moss was also the first British driver to win the British Grand Prix in a British car.

Regards from
Fouro.

[John F Collier]

Today's batteries are maintenance with sealed tops, everything has advanced so much that cars almost look after themselves, when I got my
first car, I knew nothing about car maintenance, the car was an old banger, no hand book to learn from and nobody to give me advice, like so
many others of that time, I learnt the hard way, it was common to see roadside breakdowns mainly because the drivers lack of care for their car.
Fast forward a few years, at BT, I was on call out duties and could be called out at any time at night, also on night shifts, 7 nights a week 6 or 7 weeks
at a time, so my cars were always properly maintained, I carried basic spares and tools for running repairs, I even had a hydrometer to keep an eye on
the battery condition, those cars never let me down, I called it "Belts and Braces" . One night we were working alongside the A127 Arterial road on a Coax cable, these cables could carry thousands of conversations at a time, they passed through repeater stations where the conversations were unscrambled, they worked on a much higher voltage than the residential area cables, and needed to be switched off to isolate a the section being worked on, this was always done at 11:00 and we were given a token that showed the cable was safe to work on. While we were on the grass verge preparing
the Gennies, lights and gas bottles etc, a highly polished big Rover saloon came to a stop, the driver got out, came over and asked if I could help as the car struggling, the two blokes were wearing dress suits and the women in the back seat had fur coats, they were really concerned as we were miles
from anywhere and they were obviously going to a do of some sort, so I lifted the bonnet and asked him to turn the engine over, I could see a broken leadsparking as it touched causing an intermittent fault in his electrics, I had a gas heated solder iron so it was a quick and easy repair, the car was
running fine, the driver got out and said thank you and held out his hand to give me a 50p coin, I was insulted and said, "keep it you need it more"
Talk about Fur coat and no knickers ,cheers

[happy daze john in oz]

ha ha, that sounds more like it!

Then came the 180,000 service which includes so much change over of not just oil but all fluids and more.
That set me back about $1800.00
But I bought the vehicle for longevity, second one I had.
I am not a car person, all I want is a good reliable vehicle and this one will see me through.
It has been estimated by Land Rover that 75% of all the ones ever made going back to the first in 1948 are still on the roads somewhere in the world.
One of the reasons is the body work, not plain metal but galvinised and some Ali as well.