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From: Steve Firth on 12 Jun 2010 08:06 Dave Plowman (News) <dave(a)davenoise.co.uk> wrote: > Any one hear 'Uncool Britannia' this morning at 10.30 on R4? All about the > Montego and Maestro, etc. Typical journalistic knocking so rather one > sided but worth a listen. It was a bit over generous to the festering piles of shite.
From: Jerry on 12 Jun 2010 08:44 "Steve Firth" <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote in message news:1jjz3u5.u13hjg5zt3p2N%%steve%@malloc.co.uk... : Rob <ngonly(a)gmail.com> wrote: : : > : > Yes, I think 'entertainment' more than anything. The stories about : > sabotage - coke cans in the doors, loose bolts behind the hub caps - : > incredible if true. : : Oh that was true. Ford suffered from it as well though. One of my : father's Ford cars had runnign problems. He stripped down the : carburettor and found the float wedged with a metal disk that had "HA HA : BOLLOCKS TO FORD" stamped on it. Your father ran/worked for a Ford dealer?...
From: Steve Firth on 12 Jun 2010 10:51 Jerry <mapson.scarts(a)btinternet.INVALID> wrote: > : Oh that was true. Ford suffered from it as well though. One of my > : father's Ford cars had runnign problems. He stripped down the > : carburettor and found the float wedged with a metal disk that had "HA HA > : BOLLOCKS TO FORD" stamped on it. > > Your father ran/worked for a Ford dealer?... Well that's news to me.
From: Jerry on 12 Jun 2010 11:08 "Steve Firth" <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote in message news:1jjzd8f.iocu5ybvk5vsN%%steve%@malloc.co.uk... : Jerry <mapson.scarts(a)btinternet.INVALID> wrote: : : > : Oh that was true. Ford suffered from it as well though. One of my : > : father's Ford cars had runnign problems. He stripped down the : > : carburettor and found the float wedged with a metal disk that had "HA HA : > : BOLLOCKS TO FORD" stamped on it. : > : > Your father ran/worked for a Ford dealer?... : : Well that's news to me. Then stop talking shite!
From: David Billington on 12 Jun 2010 12:39
Rob wrote: > On 12/06/2010 11:02, Dave Plowman (News) wrote: >> Any one hear 'Uncool Britannia' this morning at 10.30 on R4? All >> about the >> Montego and Maestro, etc. Typical journalistic knocking so rather one >> sided but worth a listen. >> > > Yes, I think 'entertainment' more than anything. The stories about > sabotage - coke cans in the doors, loose bolts behind the hub caps - > incredible if true. > > Rob I was told by a chap I know that he had picked up a IIRC a Mercedes Benz from the factory for a customer and drove it back to the UK. It had a clonk occasionally from one of the doors and so he took it to a MB dealer in the UK before delivery, the dealer said he'd sort it and did. When pressed for what the fault was the dealer admitted it was a beer bottle. It seems the workers were allowed beer on the line in those days but the management was trying to stop the practice. The workers protest was to leave the occasional bottle in the cars. |