Things you always wanted to know the answer to [Vol. 4]

[Roofless Toothless]

Johnspex said:

I think way back they were coloured, then pure white possibly with coloured stripes, and now many have black trim.

I think only offering in one colour saves on the options list and avoids the 'will it clash with the car?' Question.

Clashing with the car is one I hadn't thought of.

My question was prompted by driving past a motor home the other day that had a quite vivid colour scheme. I know many motor homes are white also, but colour schemes are not rare. It is, though, very unusual to see a caravan that isn't white.

This is what put me off of the reflects the heat reason, as motorhomes and caravans would be equally affected.

Are there any rules about this in caravan sites?

[Mothersruin]

Roofless Toothless said:

Why are caravans always white?

...and why would you call one the 'Swift Rapide' when it's sole purpose is to block up Cornish roads so everyone has to do 15mph?

[Frimley111R]

Rostfritt said:

Something I have been wondering for a while, why do most three-door hatchbacks have fixed rear windows? It can be pretty claustrophobic in the back and you can't even pop them out on most cars.

I suspect that cost is the first reason and demand is the second. People who buy 3dr cars probably don't have many rear seat passengers so why go to the trouble of fitting wind down windows? it may also be that the body design does not create enough space to drop windows down far enough.

The Aygo/C1 have pop out rear windows and they are 5dr and I am sure that's a cost thing.

[popeyewhite]

GT03ROB said:

Roofless Toothless said:

Why are caravans always white?

Reflects the sun, keeps them cooler...…

….absolutely no idea if that's correct

Not sure about this, but may be correct. Unlike the popular misconception that white is the coolest colour clothing to wear in summer. An exception to that is all things Miami Vice.

[simoid]

Planes. You turn the engines on, and nothing moves. Have they got the brakes on? With the added insurance of the chocks? Or is it that the engines are on, but with insufficient power to move the plane?

(Or D, all/none of the above)

Edited by simoid on Monday 22 July 15:00

[Dr Jekyll]

simoid said:

Planes. You turn the engines on, and nothing moves. Have they got the brakes on? With the added insurance of the chocks? Or is it that the engines are on, but with insufficient power to move the plane?

(Or D, all/none of the above)

Usually the brakes are on when the engine starts and are plenty powerful enough to hold it, if there are no brakes you use chocks. And yes most of the time when stationary they are at low power, though not all the time.

[LimaDelta]

simoid said:

Planes. You turn the engines on, and nothing moves. Have they got the brakes on? With the added insurance of the chocks? Or is it that the engines are on, but with insufficient power to move the plane?

(Or D, all/none of the above)

Edited by simoid on Monday 22 July 15:00

A bit of everything. Brakes on, prop feathered (or zero pitch), idle throttle. Depends on the aircraft. Some can go to 'negative pitch' and instead of pulling them along, the prop pushes them backwards.



With 'jets' it's just a case of idle throttle, and brakes. Just like in most cars, you will be developing insufficient power at idle to move the car from a standstil, but once rolling (after a bit of throttle), idle power can keep it moving along slowly.

[Speed 3]

Aircraft brakes are generally pretty powerful. You can line up on a short runway in an airliner and apply some significant power without them slipping. Getting out of Scatsta in a 146 was always fun doing that. IIRC you get it at London City too with full loads.

[Lily the Pink]

glazbagun said:

Roofless Toothless said:

Why are caravans always white?

To reflect the suns rays/stay cool?

I remember noticing in Australia many years ago that a much larger proportion of cars were white than was then the case in the UK. I assumed that it was to reflect the heat better.

Edited by Lily the Pink on Tuesday 23 July 20:48

[V8mate]

Mothersruin said:

Roofless Toothless said:

Why are caravans always white?

...and why would you call one the 'Swift Rapide' when it's sole purpose is to block up Cornish roads so everyone has to do 15mph?

Because it's much quicker at annoying other road users than other models in the Swift range?

[Shakermaker]

How much does a roadside sign cost? For example: a repeater sign for a speed limit?

They've just put a load of new ones up on the road towards my parent's house, prompted me to think as I have wondered for a long time

[SpeckledJim]

Shakermaker said:

How much does a roadside sign cost? For example: a repeater sign for a speed limit?

They've just put a load of new ones up on the road towards my parent's house, prompted me to think as I have wondered for a long time

Sign: £30
Post: £15
Cost to the public purse once it's been through the system, £9,750.00

[HTP99]

Shakermaker said:

How much does a roadside sign cost? For example: a repeater sign for a speed limit?

They've just put a load of new ones up on the road towards my parent's house, prompted me to think as I have wondered for a long time

Probably an astronomical amount that has no reasoning apart from the manufacturer having to have x licences to produce such a thing and there is only one manufacturer in the whole of the world who can do so and so therefore can charge what they want.

[vonuber]

Couple grand for the engineering/ approval side.
Another couple for installation, especially if TM is required.

[moneymakestheworldgoaround]

How do really wealthy people store their money?

As in, say you’ve just won the lottery of £150M, could that be held in one account or would it have to be split over many different accounts etc.

[lowdrag]

You'd be a damned fool to keep it in one bank to start with. And anyway, you will be taking a spread of investments like amongst others property, stocks and shares et. etc. Spreading your risk.

[Doofus]

It's not as if £150m is ever going to run out, so why bother with investments, stocks and shares and the like? It's a mind-numbingly tedious subject at the best of times, and if I didn't need my momey to multiply, I'd stay well clear. Life's too short.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

Doofus said:

It's not as if £150m is ever going to run out, so why bother with investments, stocks and shares and the like? It's a mind-numbingly tedious subject at the best of times, and if I didn't need my momey to multiply, I'd stay well clear. Life's too short.

At the very least you would want to spread it out across many banks. If stored in one bank, and they go bust, you would lose all of it apart from the £85,000 protection that the government provides.

Edit: That's £85k per banking group, not £85k per brand, so you would want to account (no pun intended) for that.

[Speed 3]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

At the very least you would want to spread it out across many banks. If stored in one bank, and they go bust, you would lose all of it apart from the £85,000 protection that the government provides.

Edit: That's £85k per banking group, not £85k per brand, so you would want to account (no pun intended) for that.

That means you'd have to find 1,765 separate UK banks to guarantee all of it

[Doofus]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

Doofus said:

It's not as if £150m is ever going to run out, so why bother with investments, stocks and shares and the like? It's a mind-numbingly tedious subject at the best of times, and if I didn't need my momey to multiply, I'd stay well clear. Life's too short.

At the very least you would want to spread it out across many banks. If stored in one bank, and they go bust, you would lose all of it apart from the £85,000 protection that the government provides.

Edit: That's £85k per banking group, not £85k per brand, so you would want to account (no pun intended) for that.

I know all that, I would just see no point in investing to make more money.