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3 hours ago, John Liley said:

Demolition in Aylesbury (1970?) At its height, during World War II, the Harvey-Taylor company operated 20 narrow boats.

 

 

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I love the single digit phone number

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18 hours ago, PeterScott said:

On this day in 2018

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Claydon Lock18 Southern Oxford

 

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Clattercote Wharf

When we moored there, I once asked Gregg about the history of his boat. The answer was somewhat convoluted, but I gathered that it was part ex-working boat, part not, and that it had a Ruston & Hornsby engine.

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Today in 2006 work started to change the engine. The engine was a 2 stroke GM 4 cylinder which made serious smoke and also engine oil was getting into the gearbox. When the Antwerp GM expert tried to fix the problem we discovered that the engine was a Russian version made under license during WW2 and made to metric measurements whereas the American engines were AF. Whilst some parts fitted others did not and seals were one of these.

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This afternoon 2021

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spacer.pngBarbridge Junction SU 

 

The housing development has now been completed.

 

Of the pubsign which survived both the demolition of the pub and the erection of the builder's boundary-fencing, there was no sign.

 

Compare

#1847 (1984) 

#5779 (2002) 

#5657 (2013) 

#3937 #3983 (2014) 

#4081 #4085 (2015) 

#5652 (2017)

#5659 (2018)

 

 

 

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This afternoon 2021

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Compare

#4355 (1994)

#1285 #1343 (2004)

 

Now, about those instructions:   

Hmmmm

It shows (1) top lock FULL

and (2) bottom lock EMPTY.

And (5) empties the top lock.

 

Where does the water go?

There's nothing to hold it in the bottom lock.

 

Gosh, they could borrow the diagram fom the 1994 picture below, which is an improvement on its successor.

 

(although the old instructions get you into a loop when instruction 6. tells you to repeat instruction 3. and so "Enter into top lock" again.)

 

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Today 2005. We were having the new engine fitted by a company on the Albert Canal in Antwerp. Just upstream there is a bend in the canal which was no problem for the smaller barges but when these very long ones appeared they had problems with it despite their very powerful bow thrusters. There was a proposal to alter the line of the canal which would have meant the end of our engine firm but I’m not sure wether anything came of it

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