Really old things amazingly still in service.......

[Contract Killer]

I spent a little time working on BTCC's hospitality bus, and was amazed the thing was on a L plate - so registered around the mid 90's!! and imported from Austria I believe.

Don't get me wrong on the top deck its pretty nice, nothing like the F1 etc hospitality trailers, but far worse places to spend time

But couldn't believe how old it was, when I assume there must be the funds to have a nice new one built.



So what other old things do we know of that are still in service, that should have been replaced years ago?

[Dynamic Space Wizard]

Theresa May

[Spare tyre]

I work in it

Often see dos 3.1,

Solaris 2.3/5.3

Seen some software running that is as old as me

For years the local cops here were running round in an L reg escort, think it might have retired into some sort Youth / school liaisons role

Had the old style spinning light on the roof

Not seen it for a few years now

[essayer]

Trains up north

[mph999]

Church organs ...

For example, although updated and refurbished, some parts of the organ at Guildford Cathedral date back to around 1866

[Pericoloso]

I don't suppose the mileage of the BTCC bus is particularly high ,a tour of a few UK circuits each year.

My contribution is a 22yo 142000 mile FIAT.

[AdeTuono]

The pillar drill in my garage. 75 years old and still going strong.

[Digger]

David Attenborough.

[67Dino]

Plenty Victorian lampposts still going strong (now there’s a sentence I never thought I’d use)

[bloomen]

My dishwasher is 33 years old and still doing fine.

[Spare tyre]

My todger

[Riley Blue]

My parents gave me a Parker fountain pen when I passed the 11+. I still use it, I'll be 70 this year.

[crofty1984]

Some of the storm surge pumps at Crossness date between 1914 and the 1930s. Apparently if they don't work when needed a lot of London floods.
I'm not talking about Bazalgette's steam pump, that's just for display.

It's a really beautiful building.

[legless]

When my dad was born, my grandfather treated himself to a new Omega Seamaster. I use and wear it pretty much every day. My dad is now 64.

On an everyday note, pretty much the entire fleet of HSTs are still in use across the country. The newest of these is 37 years old and the oldest 44 years old.

[Butter Face]

bloomen said:

My dishwasher is 33 years old and still doing fine.

Does your Mrs know you call her that?

[GliderRider]

The De Havilland Chipmunk our club uses for towing gliders most weekends is approaching its 70th birthday.

At work I got fed up with the cheap Chinese bench vice without a quick release, so I took my own in to use. Whilst giving it a bit of a clean it up, I noticed the year of manufacture on the side; 1917!

About eighteen years ago we had a family trip to Norfolk, and rented a motor boat on the Broads. Whilst returning the boat my Dad mentioned to the owner of the boatyard that he had rented an old sailing yacht for their honeymoon in 1955. Dad remembered the name of the yacht, and the owner said, they still had it and it was still in use and was over 100 years old.

Edited by GliderRider on Saturday 30th March 21:36

[blueST]

US Air Force B52 bombers are closing in on 60 years old I think, and I think they are being tarted up to last another 30.

[sparks_E46]

A Victorian era house we rented a few years back still had some of it’s original plumbing, which 120 years later worked fine.

I believe parts of London’s tube network is largely untouched and original.

[Doofus]

I have an RGD transistor radio in the garage that I use daily, and I was given on my sixth birthday. I'll be fifty this summer.

[Baby Shark doo doo doo doo]

We’ve a milling machine at work from 1936 that is still going. It’s older than the one at the local museum