bigr250:
Believe it (or not) this gutless wonder of a V6 1619 Merc had just returned from Gdansk in Poland having taken ships stores to a new ship Harrison Line had built in 1981, (The Author) along with three other vehicles from the firm. A Scania 81 also a day cab, a 2600 Daf (sleeper) & a 2800 (sleeper) pulling fridge trailers.
Is this the same Acock that’s now Transworld at Widnes?
The same!! When the pic’s were taken they had a depot on Rimrose Rd Bootle (now Outdoor World opposite Lexus Liverpool)
chazzer:
Knowing Brian Hogg he probably owns most of Crete, it’ll be his rate cutting that’s got Greece into the enconomic mess that its in now.
Can only hope he’s holding loads of Greek Euros…
Being the slippery git that he is he probably has loads of the old Drachma under his mattress and when Greece defaults and leaves the Euro as is inevitable so the Greeks have to return to the Drachma then the parity with the Euro and Drachma is likely to be 1 to 1 so he’ll make loads of money again…
chazzer:
Knowing Brian Hogg he probably owns most of Crete, it’ll be his rate cutting that’s got Greece into the enconomic mess that its in now.
Can only hope he’s holding loads of Greek Euros…
Being the slippery git that he is he probably has loads of the old Drachma under his mattress and when Greece defaults and leaves the Euro as is inevitable so the Greeks have to return to the Drachma then the parity with the Euro and Drachma is likely to be 1 to 1 so he’ll make loads of money again…
Hullo Charlie,
Come on mate, you surprise me. Catch up over the weekend on Skype. Are you back North , or are you still in Texas ?
Cheers, Archie.
chazzer:
Knowing Brian Hogg he probably owns most of Crete, it’ll be his rate cutting that’s got Greece into the enconomic mess that its in now.
Can only hope he’s holding loads of Greek Euros…
Would those be the same as French,German,Spanish and so on Euros…
Postman Paul,
No, each country within the Euro issues its own currency,and each coin has its own number/letter code that signifies its country of origin,so if you are caught with a load of Greek Euro’s when they do go belly up,you will have lost a lot of money,as no one within the Euro community will take your Greek Euro’s!
5thwheel:
No, each country within the Euro issues its own currency,and each coin has its own number/letter code that signifies its country of origin,so if you are caught with a load of Greek Euro’s when they do go belly up,you will have lost a lot of money,as no one within the Euro community will take your Greek Euro’s!
David
Not sure you’re right about that David, and I hope you are wrong. Nobody I know bothers to study each note and coin that passes through our hands. One reason is that they pass through far too quickly.
I did hear the other day that the Netherlands no longer issue 1,2 and 5 cent coins. The smallest being the 10. I asked my Dutch friend about this and whether they would be allowed to refuse those from other countries and she thought that they would have to accept them.
I also said that that must make Holland a more expensive country because anything priced at 65 cents would be rounded up to 70 rather than down to 60, which was our experience in the UK after the change to decimalisation. She replied that no, everything was rounded down. Yeah right.
I live in Slovenia and never have problems with Euros i often go to Austria and Germany Italy so what you saying does not make a lot of sence and i would think if Greece came out of the Euro it would still take Euros as well as the Drachma, as do other EU countries that do not have the Euro ,okay if you had many thousands and you where caught with them any authority would want to know how you obtained it because of the money laundering laws
Hullo,
I woke up this morning thinking about a Village in France, I don,t know why, I just did. This village was in France on the Border with Luxembourg.The question is where is it ? It is bugging me. If you were going down the Map you were in France and on the right hand side Of the road obviously, but on the same road but on the left hand side was Luxembourg. When you were coming back up then you were on the Luxembourg side, you were going down a fairly steep hill, but there were at least ten Filling Stations all selling lovely cheap diesel, ( you could of course pull over to this side if you were going South too ) it was always quite busy with Trucks filling up, as usual you always got a good Coffee ( occasionally a Bottle too ) I can see it very clearly even now. But where was it ? Loads of us went that way so somebody must know. It must be old age Altziemers setting in.
Cheers, Archie.
Archie Paice:
Hullo,
I woke up this morning thinking about a Village in France, I don,t know why, I just did. This village was in France on the Border with Luxembourg.The question is where is it ? It is bugging me. If you were going down the Map you were in France and on the right hand side Of the road obviously, but on the same road but on the left hand side was Luxembourg. When you were coming back up then you were on the Luxembourg side, you were going down a fairly steep hill, but there were at least ten Filling Stations all selling lovely cheap diesel, ( you could of course pull over to this side if you were going South too ) it was always quite busy with Trucks filling up, as usual you always got a good Coffee ( occasionally a Bottle too ) I can see it very clearly even now. But where was it ? Loads of us went that way so somebody must know. It must be old age Altziemers setting in.
Cheers, Archie.
Evening all, Archie, were you thinking about Differange, on if I remember the N31, close to Mont Soleuvre? Or Attert on the N4? Cheerio for now.
The Sealink ashtrays pictured above got the grey matter all stirred up, I had a big glass affair that I confiscated from a Sealink ferry, kharma come around soon enough and kicked me in the arse for my transgression though, tilting the cab to perform some surgery or another on a Transcon and the ashtray launched itself onto the windscreen, luckily on the passenger side so I could carry on without too much of a problem, but the screen was mullered
Archie Paice:
Hullo,
Evening all, Archie, were you thinking about Differange, on if I remember the N31, close to Mont Soleuvre? Or Attert on the N4? Cheerio for now.
Bonsoir Monsieur Saviem,
Merci beaucoup, mais il nes’t pas Differange et il nes’t pas Attert. Mais j’avez trouvez le place je pense, il sont le ville de Martelange, sur le route N4. en Belgique. Bon Regard, Archie.
p s Pronunciation and Spelling is still as bad as it was in School, 60 years ago . Oh well back to my dreams
Martelange - on the left going up was Lux,on the right was Belgium. The Belgian customs had spies with binoculars in the houses opposite the garages & anybody with too many ■■■■ would be stopped at the bottom of the hill in Belgium.
Harry,you are of course correct.It was Martelange,or ‘Gasoline Alley’ as some used to call it.
I think that yourself and Archie Paice are somewhat at odds with ‘ups and downs’.Up the hill,(southbound),you’re correct(Lux left)
Up the map,(northbound) Archie is correct (Lux on the right).Sorry,folks.I was just trying to get it correct in my head.
5thwheel:
No, each country within the Euro issues its own currency,and each coin has its own number/letter code that signifies its country of origin,so if you are caught with a load of Greek Euro’s when they do go belly up,you will have lost a lot of money,as no one within the Euro community will take your Greek Euro’s!
David
Not sure you’re right about that David, and I hope you are wrong. Nobody I know bothers to study each note and coin that passes through our hands. One reason is that they pass through far too quickly.
I did hear the other day that the Netherlands no longer issue 1,2 and 5 cent coins. The smallest being the 10. I asked my Dutch friend about this and whether they would be allowed to refuse those from other countries and she thought that they would have to accept them.
I also said that that must make Holland a more expensive country because anything priced at 65 cents would be rounded up to 70 rather than down to 60, which was our experience in the UK after the change to decimalisation. She replied that no, everything was rounded down. Yeah right.
I was quoting from an article in the financial supplement in the Telegraph newspaper,anyway,fore warned is fore armed,I would change my Greek Euro’s as soon as I could,if I had any that is!!!
