10-11-2020, 09:16 PM
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Re: When I grow up, I want to be a...
Originally Posted by realspeed
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Joking apart I wanted to be a car mechanic but left school too early to get any qualification. The Motor Trade loss not mine. Learnt a lot doing hands on and worked on so many cars I lost count
10-11-2020, 09:17 PM
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Re: When I grow up, I want to be a...
Originally Posted by Minx
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That’s an awesome job!
10-11-2020, 09:18 PM
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Re: When I grow up, I want to be a...
Originally Posted by Longdogs
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When I was little, I had a sit on bus with a steering wheel and I can remember taking the time to park the thing properly between the clothes horse and the radiogram. Of course I had to journey up and down the hall and stop for fares too.
10-11-2020, 09:23 PM
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Re: When I grow up, I want to be a...
A scientific glass blower. My father had a friend who used to be just that. When I was five it was pure magic what he could do.Then a manufacturing jeweler like my dad.
Finally a physicist. Graduated as such but soon "followed the £" and moved into industry.
10-11-2020, 09:23 PM
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Re: When I grow up, I want to be a...
Originally Posted by Minx
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I’m sure you still get to fix your own car now and then
Back in the 1960/70 it was spanner and screwdriver type of thing you could almost repair /replace broken or worn out parts. Taking an engine apart was easy, now you dearn't touch it.
Half the art back then was listening to know if an engine was running properly. You could even put your ear onto a long screwdriver and rest the screwdriver. on the rocker cover to heard for noisy tappets.
Changing a clutch plate only took a very short time, now who knows
10-11-2020, 09:46 PM
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Re: When I grow up, I want to be a...
Originally Posted by scot37
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My father had a petrol/paraffin Ferguson on his small croft in the fifties,
..No, a Policeman.
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