Tell us something really trivial about your life (Vol 29)
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DickyC said:
Jim AK said:
...my AM collection...
Starting with a Bamford & Martin Grand Prix car right through to a Valkyrie, I hear.I did give the matter a quick Google but couldn't see any obvious connection.
r imo.
dibblecorse said:
If Chertsey is close maybe Maidenhead is, as a fellow Italian I can recommend ... http://www.italiancont.co.uk/
Also if you are ever in SE London then you need Gennaros http://www.antoniodelicatessen.com/
Happy shopping ....
Thanks for that ,very useful.....Also if you are ever in SE London then you need Gennaros http://www.antoniodelicatessen.com/
Happy shopping ....
coopedup said:
Sure you weren't there trying to spot Chelsea players? 
Like shooting fish in a barrel ,more likely to see them there than SW3.....I nearly ran over one of their managers in the posh Oxshott estate ,forget his name ,they have so many in and out with the
revolving door policy.
I doubt Sr Conte will be there in August 2018.
coopedup said:
fatboy18 said:
Parking ticket day today 
Working in Cobham High street changing locks on a shop door and getting tickets.....Bar stewards, they can see im bloody working and it's a commercial Van 
Sure you weren't there trying to spot Chelsea players? Working in Cobham High street changing locks on a shop door and getting tickets.....Bar stewards, they can see im bloody working and it's a commercial Van 
The Players must get hacked off with that, then seeing a signed shirt on eBay for stupid money.fatboy18 said:
I go past the training ground at least a couple of times a day, there was a guy standing outside with a few football shirts hoping for some signatures earlier today.
He missed the sign saying "players will not stop for autographs" etc.I've no idea if some of them actually do stop.
fatboy18 said:
I go past the training ground at least a couple of times a day, there was a guy standing outside with a few football shirts hoping for some signatures earlier today. The Players must get hacked off with that, then seeing a signed shirt on eBay for stupid money.
You should stop in the Viper and offer to sign a few The Players must get hacked off with that, then seeing a signed shirt on eBay for stupid money.
Bomma220 said:
I had a Simon Snorkel fire engine:
Marvellous thing it was, one of my favourite toys when I was a nipper.
Thinking about it, I used to have a bit of a fascination with fire engines. I had another one with a working hose pipe, you filled the tank up with water and pressed a little plunger on the top to make the hose work.
Sometimes I'd fill it up with some paraffin from dad's shed. Quite spectacular when one of your pals is trying to extinguish a blazing Airfix model...
I have one of those in the loft, I'm due to go up there in a while so I'll look it out.Marvellous thing it was, one of my favourite toys when I was a nipper.
Thinking about it, I used to have a bit of a fascination with fire engines. I had another one with a working hose pipe, you filled the tank up with water and pressed a little plunger on the top to make the hose work.
Sometimes I'd fill it up with some paraffin from dad's shed. Quite spectacular when one of your pals is trying to extinguish a blazing Airfix model...
straight dad said:
Bomma220 said:
I had a Simon Snorkel fire engine:
Marvellous thing it was, one of my favourite toys when I was a nipper.
Thinking about it, I used to have a bit of a fascination with fire engines. I had another one with a working hose pipe, you filled the tank up with water and pressed a little plunger on the top to make the hose work.
Sometimes I'd fill it up with some paraffin from dad's shed. Quite spectacular when one of your pals is trying to extinguish a blazing Airfix model...
I have one of those in the loft, I'm due to go up there in a while so I'll look it out.Marvellous thing it was, one of my favourite toys when I was a nipper.
Thinking about it, I used to have a bit of a fascination with fire engines. I had another one with a working hose pipe, you filled the tank up with water and pressed a little plunger on the top to make the hose work.
Sometimes I'd fill it up with some paraffin from dad's shed. Quite spectacular when one of your pals is trying to extinguish a blazing Airfix model...
Bomma220 said:
Out of interest Dicky, would you happen to know if the Bamford chap was associated in any way with the Bamfords of JCB fame?
I did give the matter a quick Google but couldn't see any obvious connection.
The Can of Worms Dept.I did give the matter a quick Google but couldn't see any obvious connection.
Not as far as I am aware but where Lionel Martin's life is well documented, Robert Bamford is a bit of an enigma. They met as cycling enthusiasts as members of the Bath Road Club. They became friends and decided to go into business with a cycle shop in Chelsea (Henniker Mews, Henniker Place or Callow Street depending on which history you read). Before long they had branched out into motor cars and were selling Singers. They modified Lionel Martin's Singer for hillclimbing (Aston Hill eventually lending its name to the car). Customers were interested and asked for their cars to be modified in the same way. B&M realised there was a market for such a car and the first Aston Martin was registered in 1915, during the First War. They went off to do their bit; Bamford as a Lieutenant in the Royal Army Service Corps and Martin at the Admiralty. Neither were young men at the outbreak of war; Bamford was born in 1883 and Martin in 1878. Estimates vary but the little firm made between 50 and 80 cars by the time the company folded in 1925, selling largely to friends. Bamford left in 1920. When Renwick and Bertelli took over, Bertelli looked over the premises and the few machine tools and exclaimed he didn't know how they had done it. Wikipedia will tell you he went to university, he was an engineer, it mentions B&M, he married in 1919 and had a daughter and died in 1942. What it doesn't tell you is a snippet unearthed by the then AMOC Registrar of Cars - who had also been Secretary of the VSCC and owned one of the two 1922 French Grand Prix Astons. He found out that before he retired, Robert Bamford worked in a bike shop in Croydon where he was known universally as 'Mr Bamford in the back.'
Isn't that marvellous?
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