Greg Cox (C8) may have been worried about being overtaken by semi-trailers,but Peter Miniutti of Ashbury can recall “being driven up the Swiss Alps in a car that I was too big to fit behind the steering wheel of,and being overtaken by bike riders ... and the odd cow or two.”
All this reminiscing about slow Morris 1100s (C8) reminded David Harrison of Winmalee of a high school friend in 1976 who owned a bright blue Morris Minor that he had done up with his dad. “One weekend he organised a short notice party,where he proudly showed all the guests a splattered moth on the windscreen. When we asked why this was worthy of celebration,he responded:‘It’s the first one I’ve caught up to!’”
Reading of all the ‘lucky’ Morris Minor drivers (C8),Roy Lawrence of Wahroonga thought back “to the 1950s when I had to come back up parts of Bulli Pass in reverse gear (the strongest) in my pre-war Dodge,with all passengers helping.”
According to Michael Britt of MacMasters Beach,Glen Innes (C8) was also a dangerous place in the 1950s. “My great aunt would drive her trusty Ford Prefect into town from her property at Deepwater once a week to shop. She only used second gear,so dropped the clutch on take off spraying gravel behind her. Locals knew to stay well away.”
To those mothers who carry their son’s bags to school (C8),Mary Thom of Roseville passes on something her soon-to-be daughter-in-law said many years ago. “Teach your sons to be self-sufficient so that when they marry they don’t expect their wife to be ‘mum’ who does everything for them.”
Paul Keys of Clouds Creek has an answer to Col Burns’ bird question (C8). “If the birds are still in the cargo hold,then the mass of the plane has not changed. Weight is mass times acceleration,so the plane has not become lighter unless the birds escape.” Alynn Pratt of Grenfell goes further,stating that the weight remains the same,“unless the birds are in flight (albeit still within the fuselage,enclosed or not) in which case the weight reduces by 10 tonnes,as the total weight,as measured by a weighbridge,is the plane only.”
Garry Champion of Jamisontown can’t answer Col Burns’ conundrum regarding birds and aeroplanes (C8),but he “wouldn’t want the job of cleaning up after landing.”
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