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Braukuche
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 Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2022 7:23 am Post subject: Re: John Moxon's Lowlight from 1958 |
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Nice score!
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John Moxon 
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John Moxon
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| Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2022 5:41 am Post subject: Re: John Moxon's Lowlight from 1958 |
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A common occurrence with ring binders was if there were a lot of pages and no page compressor a large number of the pages curl on the rings and make reading the contents a far from easy business. This was the case with both volumes of the 1958 Type 1 workshop manuals I recently bought.
I have some experience repairing books and in this case individual pages that had minor tears due to careless extraction from the ring binder. There were forty or fifty pages that needed repair of the punched holes and as many that needed to be flattened.
Having done that and reassembled the manuals in page order, to make the operation effective I needed to find a couple of page compressors to hold the pages flat...not so easy. The VW Workshop Manuals are 6 Ring Binders and a week of online searches have revealed, nobody makes page compressors for them; 2, and 4 yes, 6 no way. I bought a pack of plastic compressors for 2 ring binders and broke them in half as a stop gap. If anyone knows of a source for Page Compressors for a 6 Ring Binder, please let me know.
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calexican
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| Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2022 6:47 am Post subject: Re: John Moxon's Lowlight from 1958 |
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| I don’t know about ring binders, but in reference to the tweed jacketed mechanics and lack there of, I might point out that the young man has a tie on to make up for his not so sartorial coveralls. |
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Trylon
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| Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2022 6:51 am Post subject: Re: John Moxon's Lowlight from 1958 |
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Perhaps tweed lurks under the twill?
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John Moxon
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kingkarmann
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| Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2022 7:21 am Post subject: Re: John Moxon's Lowlight from 1958 |
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If anyone knows of a source for Page Compressors for a 6 Ring Binder, please let me know.
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Perhaps fabricating your own using a plastic ruler?
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crocteau
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| Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2022 7:58 am Post subject: Re: John Moxon's Lowlight from 1958 |
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| I don’t know about ring binders, but in reference to the tweed jacketed mechanics and lack there of, I might point out that the young man has a tie on to make up for his not so sartorial coveralls. |
Ah now you've sent me on a quest for Karmann factory pictures for workers with ties on the assembly line...  |
Wouldn't wearing a tie on the assembly line have been considered a safety hazard even in those halcyon days of yore? Maybe the operator of the dynamometer occupied a niche apart.  |
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John Moxon
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| Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2022 12:07 pm Post subject: Re: John Moxon's Lowlight from 1958 |
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This morning was perfect weather for a drive in the local Hampshire countryside.
I took the opportunity in searching the churchyard of St. Margaret's Church for the grave of my great grandfather and grand mother. My mother's family are all buried in the churchyard around the tomb of the notable lady whose picture you see on the signpost but I still haven't found them.
So today's quiz question is who is the notable lady whose image you see on the signpost? No Googling please. 
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Ian Godfrey
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| Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2022 3:00 pm Post subject: Re: John Moxon's Lowlight from 1958 |
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beautiful picture.
my partner is taking a punt on the lady on the sign being St. Margaret? |
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kingkarmann
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| Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2022 4:01 pm Post subject: Re: John Moxon's Lowlight from 1958 |
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I’m going to guess Jane Austin because that’s the only famous Victorian (Edwardian?) British person I know😃
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John Moxon
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kiwighia68
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| Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2022 12:13 pm Post subject: Re: John Moxon's Lowlight from 1958 |
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| I think then she’s related events in Crimea in the 1850s. She spent a lot of time looking after injured troops and impose new standards of hygiene and sanitation which greatly improved survival rates. The Lady with the Lamp. |
Florence Nightingale's work in Crimea preceded her efforts in South Africa where she intervened in Lord Kitchener's concentration camps during the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902. According to British records some 26 000 Boer women and children died in those camps due to malnutrition, freezing conditions, contagious disease and lack of medical care. Nightingale not only exposed those horrors to the British public but worked tirelessly to improve the treatment of the women and children (including my grandmother as a 16-year old) in those camps.
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Trylon
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| Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2022 12:19 pm Post subject: Re: John Moxon's Lowlight from 1958 |
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| I think then she’s related events in Crimea in the 1850s. She spent a lot of time looking after injured troops and impose new standards of hygiene and sanitation which greatly improved survival rates. The Lady with the Lamp. |
My Antipodean friend wins the cigar...do we have a name for her and the "cheery" Woodstock hero who is a big fan of her achievements? |
Wavy Gravy was pretty cheery.
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John Moxon
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| Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2022 10:42 pm Post subject: Re: John Moxon's Lowlight from 1958 |
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| I think then she’s related events in Crimea in the 1850s. She spent a lot of time looking after injured troops and impose new standards of hygiene and sanitation which greatly improved survival rates. The Lady with the Lamp. |
Florence Nightingale's work in Crimea preceded her efforts in South Africa where she intervened in Lord Kitchener's concentration camps during the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902. According to British records some 26 000 Boer women and children died in those camps due to malnutrition, freezing conditions, contagious disease and lack of medical care. Nightingale not only exposed those horrors to the British public but worked tirelessly to improve the treatment of the women and children (including my grandmother as a 16-year old) in those camps. |
Yes our ancestors lived through shameful and barbarous times Chris, I often wonder if we've moved on at all. 
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