Confessions from quality control - The Frontera factory

[Pommygranite]

Pledged for a printed copy from Perth, Australia.

Mr Worldwide Author....

[The Moose]

What's the deal with hardcover copies? It seems I can only see paperback??

[The jiffle king]

So if I want 2, I pledge 18 quid and it adds in the other 2 quid to make 20?

FiL was in quality control at Jaguar so will love this as a Christmas gift

[Pommygranite]

The Crack Fox said:

The Moose said:

What's the deal with hardcover copies? It seems I can only see paperback??

It's paperback only. I'm happy to stuff two bits of cardboard inside the sleeve if you like

There's something pleasingly ironic about this 'fix'

[Vaud]

The Crack Fox said:

It's paperback only. I'm happy to stuff two bits of cardboard from a different book, but the same publisher inside the sleeve if you like

FTFY

[Pommygranite]

The Crack Fox said:

Pommygranite said:

Pledged for a printed copy from Perth, Australia.

Mr Worldwide Author....

Thanks. I will arrange for all the words in your copy to be printed upside down so you can read them

You bloody ripper, that'll be better than the time I rooted me old Sheila in the back of my Sandman ya big galah.

Or something like that.

[Morningside]

Pledged. Looking forward to reading it. I mean, who cannot miss stories about the quality control at Rover.

[Flooble]

Morningside said:

Pledged. Looking forward to reading it. I mean, who cannot miss stories about the quality control at Rover.

That'd be a really short book, based on my experience don't think there was any ...

[fredd589]

Pledged!

[Rangeroverover]

Is there any way of making this downloadable via amazon or similar, also I must have missed the link to pre order can you re post it so I can order a copy if a download isn't possible

[Krikkit]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bodgesballsup...

It'll be in a pdf for digital format - readable on all devices inc Kindle etc.

[hidetheelephants]

The Crack Fox said:

What they should have done on paper, and what they did in reality, were often quite different, in my experience. Actually, it's about the characters, the people, the union hard-heads, shop-floor bodgers and other people who lurk in car factories doing often quite unspeakable things.

That's kicked the databanks into action again; the sideshow bob lookalike who worked in roadtesting was very serious about his job and knew every off-junction cafe and greasy spoon within 150 miles of Longbridge, and the manager with the bad hair transplant that looked like a field of crops on his forehead; it was a sight to behold and being in a meeting with him was pretty odd as no-one could bring themselves to look at him for fear of staring at it.

[Craikeybaby]

They're probably at JLR...

[Tonsko]

The Crack Fox said:

Probably. I've never been in the factory there but have pranged a few things on their test track.

Dodgy brakes? Mismatched wheel sizes? No steering wheel?

[BenWRXSEi]

Completely missed this until now! Sounds fascinating. Pledged

[StescoG66]

pledged. look forward to it

[havoc]

Craikeybaby said:

They're probably at JLR...

They are. Back when I worked for a Tier-1 a few years back, one of our TVM contacts was a fossil relic from the BL days who bored regaled everyone with his tales of working at Longbridge and Solihull, and was proud to have worked alongside Red Robbo. Never seen anyone take pride in skiving off before...

Needless to say both us and his JLR colleagues did our best to work around him.

[KAgantua]

just pledged dude

[TooMany2cvs]

The Crack Fox said:

I'd love to meet Red Robbo. I think he is still alive. I've tried to track him down a few times without success. I'll bet he could add a chapter or two to my book

Seems he is, but he's 90 next year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Robinson_(trad...

(Don't get confused by obits - different Derek Robinson - http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/sep/15/de... )

[Tonsko]

I'd not heard of Red Robbo before. How did anyone get anything done at all?

Perhaps they didn't. BL doesn't exactly have a stellar rep