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Chris

Thanks for the link. There's some nice stuff on there. Unfortunately I forgot the mention that I'm after 00 gauge figures, those on the link seem to be 0 gauge :(

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( The blue three wheeler bike / van at the top of the page ........ a chap used to own one down our avenue back in the mid 60's, can't remember what these contraptions were called ? )

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Chris

Reliant Regent?

Thank's

Have consulted an old motor mechanic ( Used to work in a Mobil garage ) and he said it might have been a Raleigh Karryall Van. In a way the Reliant Regent is the same thing as it was made using old Raleigh tooling I understand.

It must have been a bit noisy inside the cab

Chris

Was that a garage that used Mobil oil or a garage that was MobilE?...

Sorry but it's one of those things that grate with me, like when someone tries to impress by saying "Well he is an engineer you know" without quantifying the 'qualification' - grrrrr!

On 10/10/2008 08:25, Jerry said,

Personally, if someone said they worked in a Mobil garage it would take that to mean that they worked in a Mobil garage :-) Exactly the same way as we talk about the Shell garage or the Texaco garage.

But in all my time I've never seen a Mobil, Texaco or Shell garage, I've seen garages that use their products, I've even seen *filling stations* that sell their fuels but I've never see a garage run by any of them. Yes a tad pedantic perhaps but as I said, it just grates on me.

Put it this way, we all know that a LMS Jinty could be called 'Thomas', a GWR Pannier could be called 'Duck', so would we (as railway enthusiasts) not get annoyed by a parent pointing out a Pannier tank to their tot and shouting out "There's Thomas"...

In message , Jerry writes

I thought Thomas was a Southern loco.

" .... when someone tries to impress ..... "

Not my intention at all, he was a great foreman motor mechanic, but I was not attempting to impress anyone but simply implying how long ago it was when he was a motor mechanic.

I can't remember the last time I actually saw a Mobil service station as they are all under the ESSO banner these days, hence my reference to it and Mobil themselves are part of EXXON.

To put your mind at rest the garage in question sold Mobil fuel & lubricants ( a gallon of 4 star was 5 shillings & 6 pence or about 27 pence ) and had illuminated The Flying Horse logo above the main workshop doorway. I wish I could have bought the logo for myself but apparently it was destroyed by the demolishion gang who were making way for a road widening scheme that never happened. :-(

Chris

Here in New Zealand the oil companies own some petrol stations. (Mobil, Shell, BP etc)

Regards, Greg.P.

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( The blue three wheeler bike / van at the top of the page ........ a chap used to own one down our avenue back in the mid 60's, can't remember what these contraptions were called ? )

Just a few clicks further and it tells you:

Reliant.

On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:43:11 +0100, "Keith W" said in :

I believe Beaulieu have one. Another here:

Guy