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#1 mab01uk

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Posted 23 June 2021 - 06:41 PM

Edd China's Workshop Diaries Episode 6 (Outspan Orange Part 1)


Edd China's Workshop Diaries Episode 8 (Amazing Outspan Orange Part 2)

 



#2 panky

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Posted 24 June 2021 - 01:32 PM

What looks like a robot in the background of the second vid is, I'm almost certain, a demonstration piece of welding different metals together. It was made by BOC in the 70's to show what was possible with the gases and equipment available at the time. I remember it in the foyer of BOC's then head office, Great West House, on the great west road in London, I visited  as a young(ish) plant tech to see a demonstration of the new hand terminals used for gathering machine logs - PDET's or Portable Data Entry Terminals, all very high tech for the time but portable was a bit of a stretch of the imagination.


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Posted 24 June 2021 - 02:12 PM

Honest question:

If one piece of fuel pipe had ruptured, with the potential for loss of vehicle and lives, wouldn't most of us replace the other similar vintage hose, while we were at it?



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Posted 24 June 2021 - 03:02 PM

Probably not?Steve..

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Posted 13 August 2021 - 09:04 AM

I used to work in the family Greengrocers in Amersham when these Outspan Oranges Mini Cars? used to come round and take children for a ride back in the 70s, they used to be stored in Berkhampsted.






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