But of course. Rites of passage including the cutting of ones fingers on the tin plating and chewing up finger tips trying to hold nuts without a spanner when tightening screws...
my mates had a jetex engine. I liked the ed bee as it was simple and you could tweak it and I liked the whiff of the fuel with ether in it. Us kids could buy a tin of it without problem. Ether and diesel is very inflammable stuff. my brothers built a free flight five feet wingspan plane powered by an ed bee. sadly the plane was lost one day over the Ashdown Forest as they put wing fuel tanks on it and it flew too far and out of sight. Great days they were.
Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School. Who were his mates? I can remember teacher Quelch and he had a sister called Bessie. Harry Warton I seem to remember. Was there a Bob Cherry.
Saw a group play live called Billy Bunter and his Gastric Band ...a very heavy rock band , they were supporting Starve Crow .
the ED Bees have stood the test of time, there are a few up on ebay. I don't know if you can still get the ether fuel now, probably banned not sure what happened to our old meccano collection, but my Hornby Dublo 3 rail stuff is still with me and I am adding to it in my old age thanks to ebay, and last winter I started to build a layout. The cast metal Hornby Dublo was quality built at the Liverpool factory and far better than the plastic stuff that came later and still named Hornby. I have had to replace the old Hornby transformer and controllers with safe modern but the rest of it is original Dublo.
Had great fun with my upright Mamod engine. We had races to see who could keep theirs going the longest with stopping - mine eventually fell to pieces I've still got the steam car and Traction engine
I've got one of those! And I'd have killed for Meccano but it just wasn't for girls back in olden tymes. And I remember getting an oblong plastic frame of tiny car pieces in my cereal. You pulled the parts off and snapped then together. Fab. And I had a tiger tail from a petrol station that we hung out of the tank. How we laughed! I think mum still has a load of 'free with petrol' glasses too. Why don't petrol companies still do that? We'd drive for miles to get the right station and add a glass to the collection.
Am fairly sure no one was married to a sheep....unsure how one might be an adulterer any other way... I think Ffwrchio is the word we are after.
Petrol glasses now theres a thing of the past. For my sins I still have six tumblers, six sherry glasses, and six wine glasses all collected over one long hot summer when life was a little more carefree and my vehicle of choice only did 12mpg. Oh and I was single too
