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JohnG

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    Chelmsford
  • Cars Owned:
    2 Triumph motor cycles, then;
    A mini traveller (1963 I think, reg; 1321 PG) then, a 1965 mini 850, rebuilt with 1000 engine and 1100 gold seal g'box and diff assembly - sold

    1969 1600 Cortina, rebuilt with 1600 GT engine and 1600E diff assembly - sold

    Then some newer stuff, a 2.0S MK Cortina, a couple of 1.6i Ghia Orions, in the days when the 'i' was important, and including a Mondeo, an SRi Cavalier, 2 Rover 600's an S-Max and finishing with a Honda Accord 2.2 TDi; a very nice car for cruising long distances.

    We had a Ford Kuga for comfort, carrying capacity and the grandchildren but that's now gone
    A Mercedes SL500 (via an SLK200AMG and a Boxster) for long distance comfort travel, also gone.
    Next was a late 2012 black SL350 AMG followed by a mistake . . .an XC60.
    12 weeks later I bought a MB GLc 250D AMG, which was promptly stolen

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Left school with half a dozen O levels, but just one grade A (in art!).

Rebuilt a couple of motor bikes and thought I enjoyed it, so looked to do "Engineering"

Trained on model stationary steam engines, centrifugal pumps & small inboard petrol marine engines at Stuart Turner Ltd of Henley on Thames, a long, long time ago, when Brakespeares beer was still brewed in the town using Thames water.

Did a year at Albon Saunders, a precision engineering company in Milton Nr Didcot, contracting mainly for the nuclear industry and Culhams JET project, before I moved on to generate electricity with the CEGB on Didcot PS, when it was a new site, now, it's gone.

I was a guide during the official opening in 1975 (I think it was)

Then, via a small hydraulics operation in Bicester and Lucas Fluid Power in Coventry, I spent my last 28 years with a big American corporation, travelling the world, meeting loads of brilliant people and a very few . . . . .less brilliant, all whilst not working as hard as the corporation thought I was.

Now . . .I'm retired and volunteer for the National Trust.

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