I was looking up Austin 7s after watching the veteran car run today and discovered that the first BMWs were actually Austin 7s made under licence, and the first Nissan also used the Austin 7 design (although they didn’t license it). I found it interesting, but I imagine that if I lived in the Midlands […]
Entries from November 6th, 2006
Old Bangers
November 6th, 2006 · Comments Off on Old Bangers · Life, Technology
Today was the 110th London to Brighton veteran car run. The cars set off from Hyde Park in the morning and head off for the coast. Traditionally they stop off in Crawley High Street as it is more or less the halfway point, and it provides an interesting spectacle for the town. In past years […]
Tags: Brighton·Cars·Crawley·London·Nostalgia·Photos·Pink Floyd·Traffic
Broadband badness
November 6th, 2006 · Comments Off on Broadband badness · Technology
Something has been wrong with our broadband all day, preventing me from going to every sports site on the Internet to gloat over West Ham beating Arsenal. It was off in the morning, and as we came up Woodmans Hill on the way back from town I saw a couple of vans at one of […]
