Given our illustrious leader’s propensity for things gallic, shouldn’t we be planning more for Mme la Guillotine than the old rope trick? We don’t want to upset the Midlands Farmer, after all he’s going to be responsible for appointing us to various positions in his administration from which we will be expecting to skim a lorry load of bunce.
Help!!! cannot post!!! Have now given up all hope!!!
Cannot understand the vagaries in the use of this electronic thing…apologies mes braves!
Lets set up stall on the Isle of Man…employ “Putin” style expansionist tactics…
ROF can control the agricultural endeavours…
Bewick can, on a no night out basis erect one of M Gs devices on Dougla sea front,
MOB is off to Scandanavia to buy extra “Pinks”, relying on the IOMs Nordic past,
And Buzzer can seek a renewal of the "Auld Alliance " with our skirt wearing northern neighbours!!!
We are on our way…whey hey…
Cheerio for now.
Just an old Berliet, looks like it’s Dutch, Buzzer
Still looking for volunteers to build that Morecambe ramp.
Gentlemen, I’ve been out today procuring on your behalf, 
and a very successful day it’s been. I’ve found our leader transport to suit his exalted position
before the election, of course its Gallic so the electorate will love it. 
Unfortunately,the outriders will have to be on non-gallic steeds but we can’t have everything!!
Of course when he’s won the poll, we can resort to a more fitting mode of transport for our head of state.
I have also had some success over the problem of the ramp to the I.O.M. I shall enlighten you tomorrow on my solution.
Regards Kev. Ps. I dont know if the post of Minister of Procurement has been filled but I would like to volunteer.
I am afraid I have been forced to withdraw
My application for the post of minister for war kev . In the light of certain possible indiscretions in the past , I wouldn’t want any blemish on the government of our esteemed leader . Profumo was minister of war wasn’t he ? I may be seeking a less sensitive post later , merci , Dave
rigsby:
I am afraid I have been forced to withdraw
My application for the post of minister for war kev . In the light of certain possible indiscretions in the past , I wouldn’t want any blemish on the government of our esteemed leader . Profumo was minister of war wasn’t he ? I may be seeking a less sensitive post later , merci , Dave
That was a wise move on your part Dave. Considering your sordid affair with a certain Miss Jones and several other missis.How you found time to go to work beats me.It must have been rather difficult to drive with your trousers round your ankles. However your secret is safe with me.How about head of MI 6? I think that you could be well suited for the position.Regards Charlie
You’ll be wanting a campaign hospitality trailer. Robert 
As an alternative to the ramp and GUY Big J idea to get to the IOM what about a hot air balloon with a wacking great basket underneath which we could all get into, no need for gas as I think there would be enough hot air generated by us to propel the thing, just an idea cheers Buzzer.
In my procuring mode again, how about this tonka toy for building the ramp to the I.O.M.■■
Here’s a couple of helpers, we should be over the pond in no time!!!
Here’s the six wheelers big bro to help out!!!
Anyone care to try these “road skates” to check the angle of descent■■?
the short ropes operate the brakes!!! 
plus they can be used by the “ladies” in the Pink Pig to tout for business when things are slack 
I also came across this “mod con” to help the “ladies” with their toilet facilities!!! read the legend
Of course we must have some supervision from Manx to make sure we don’t miss the island
Regards Kev. Ps sorry
got the 8legger out of place.
Having consumed a number of glasses of “apple juice”- hee hee- I had the thought that those Road Skates seem to have had their original 240 Gardner power plants confiscated. should we send TNCSI to peep into a certain shed in ■■■■■■■■
Anyway, I don’t think much of the Hot Air Balloon idea, although I have to agree with the idea that sufficient lift would probably be generated by the basket’s occupants. Directional control would be un cheval d’un coleur different (just practising the lingo) as the wind would probably tend to direct us in a South-Easterly direction, resulting in landfall somewhere around Leatherhead. And we wouldn’t want that, would we?
I’m sticking with the ramp/Big J scheme so if the Minister for Procurement could lay his hands on a few RB22s we could get started on the project.
To arms, mes braves!
Evening Gentlemen, Pete, thank you for the picture…back to about 18 years old…yes, ilegal in todays world I know!!!
But back then…Foden S18, 4 pot Gardner, 18ft platform…you would be amazed just how much would fit on…(triple stack of course), plus the sheets, and the incentive to get out of the rain…(Millers had canopies that extended over the road whilst you loaded)!
Full tilt down towards the "Low Level, (GWR), station…all of 25 mph,…but boy that corner was an absolute killer when the cobbles were wet…and they were for me that November afternoon…really “lost it”, (as only a youngster can)!..bent ye…right hand front mudguard on the “bridge hole”…but not much coming the other way in the 60s!!!..Was I not lucky…of course I was…Another lesson learned, and much sobriety on the journey back to Church Stretton, and even more on to Liverpool with only one little light to guide me…plus the heat of a gargantuan bollocking to keep me warm!!!
!But back to today…
An easier one, the sun shone, the grass grew, the ■■■■ matured, and the Wheat made an appearance, …and what is far more important…the first Swallows came back!!! Oh true bliss…
So away to a Barn I went to “tidy up”…(lost for hours in a bliss of “why did I keep this I wonder”■■?Well between a set of continuous drive wheels for a BV202E Snow Cat, and a set of Radios, and Commander seats for a Russian T34 Tank, what did I find but a new…old stock…still in the box…Michelin Bibendum, (Michelin Man), in pristine as new condition…what we all needed back in the 70s perched on our mirror arm!!!
But back in the 70s I had given up driving, for selling…(but it was there in my soul…and oh how it burned)!! So how did I acquire it?
But perhaps a little history is in order, so we all may enjoy the background to the “Michelin Man”…
The Michelin brothers , Andre, and Edouard, inherited the families business which manufactured rubber components for the agricultural industry, back in 1889. But with the boom in cycle manufacture they created a “silent” brake pad, a solid rubber pad to act upon the wheel rim…unlike the steel on steel version of their rivals.
But the real breakthrough was Eduard endeavouring to repair a punctured Dunlop Pneumatic tyre…it took him over 12 hours…the glue had to set…before he was successfull… But the idea was there in Edouards head…ease of repair was the key!
The Michelin "detachable, (via 16 screws) was created…A bicycle tyre, but without compromise…The Paris-Brest-Paris race was won by Charles Terront on the Michelin Tyre, beating his Dunlop mounted rival Joseph Laval by 12 hours…despite a puncture en route…the system worked…
But what of Motor Vehicles…and the Lorry Tyre we all love…
1895 the worlds first pneumatic car tyre was developed by the brothers…no one would buy it…SO…
The Michelin Brothers created their own car…Peugeot Chassis, and Daimler-Benz boat engine!..The "Lightning Flash…(L`eclair), and entered it in the Paris-Bordeaux- Paris car race… The car was a failure in the race…but it finished…and by so doing proved the worth of the Michelin Tyre…
The "mad " Belgian, Camille Jenatzy…“the Red Devil”, defied the medical professions warnings that the human body could not stand the strain of the pressures of exceeding 70kph…and drove his Michelin tyred car “La Jamais Contente”…(never satisfied)…at 100kph!!! Michelin tyres had arrived!!!
But what of the Michelin Man who graced our mirror arms…well…
There was a cartoonist by the name of O` Gallop, who proposed to the brothers that their 1898 Lyon Show exhibit of stacks of tyres, with the largest at the bottom, and the smallest at the top could be a “man”…just add the arms and legs…made in tyres of course!
But what of the Latin phrase , “Nunc est Bibendum”? , (now is the time to drink)? Remember that Andre stated back in the 1893, that “his tyres could drink up obstacles”…So Michelin can, “drink up all that the road can throw at us”!!!
So the Michelin Brothers tok their product, and the battle to the UK, the home of the pioneer Dunlop…81 Fulham Road, Londres, is the attack centre…(though today no longer a tyre headquarters)… but a gastronomes delight…but Bibendum is there…and he still is…And now well established with us lorry men! I would always have Michel in as my steer axle tyre, (even if I favoured…( oh sacrilidge)…Bandags, on my drive axles).
So Gentlemen that is the (potted), origin of our mirror arm companion…the Michelin Man!
So where did mine come from?..but my friends at “Agenziia Italiana Pneumatica, Milano”…for making sure that the Black, and Red Berliet 350 V8, …all had Michelin rubber to “put their power down onto that Italian tarmac”!
Oh what happy days…
Cheerio for now.
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I will ensure that all pink coaches are fitted thus…Michelin on the steer, for safety, and Bandags on the drive for economy…as most of the chauffers already look like Michelin men, you can keep your model safely in its box…
ooooooh , that was a bit below the belt fergie , for those that can still find their belts that is . i find a mirror useful for fastening mine . i’m going on a diet ….tomorrow .
Fergie47:
I will ensure that all pink coaches are fitted thus…Michelin on the steer, for safety, and Bandags on the drive for economy…as most of the chauffers already look like Michelin men, you can keep your model safely in its box…
hiya,
Michelin man indeed, as a prospective driver of the pink transportation omnibus’s I’ll have
you know for an old un’ I’m quite sylph like in fact often described as a gypsy’s greyhound.
thanks harry, long retired.
I thought this was very restful on the eye. A trim tilt indeed. Robert
Hi,Saviem,another couple of pics for you,1st loading bays under the warehouse opposite the millhouse,them bags would come flying down those highly polished chutes![dated aug 1972]the rear of the bulker pulling out was the 1st leyland bison millers bought[bradburn+wedge]think it was on 2nd engine at 15k miles. 2nd pic showing loading bay behind weighbridge and the old man having a look at front wheel,ta,Pete