Resignation

stevej · Post by **stevej** » Tue Dec 05, 2017 4:47 pm

This day in 1966

Barrie · Post by **Barrie** » Tue Dec 05, 2017 4:50 pm

Poor chap!
What a Christmas present to himself.
Still, he was in my opinion holding the company back.

Post by **sespie** » Wed Dec 06, 2017 2:49 am

Your place names never cease to amuse. "Sodington" and "Mamble" are delightful - which prompted me to look up the house on Google Earth. Magnificent!
Just the place to have Jensen prototypes strewn about the gravel driveway.

stevej · Post by **stevej** » Wed Dec 06, 2017 3:17 am

It sure is !

Post by **sespie** » Wed Dec 06, 2017 3:28 am

Bang on the money.

kees · Post by **kees** » Wed Dec 06, 2017 10:20 am

Wrong car. Richard Jensen would have turned in his grave!
Kees Oudesluijs

taximan · Post by **taximan** » Wed Dec 06, 2017 6:05 pm

Wikipedia has it half wrong too as I'm sure they don't realise there was a fifties Interceptor and would be referring to the 66 to 76 models.
Shaun.

Post by **shaun** » Wed Dec 06, 2017 7:13 pm

The wording from Wikki is:-
The Jensen Interceptor is a Grand touring car which was hand-built at the Kelvin Way Factory in West Bromwich, near Birmingham in England, by Jensen Motors between 1966 and 1976. The Interceptor name had been used previously by Jensen for the Jensen Interceptor made between 1950 and 1957 at the Carters Green factory.

Post by **zacmarshall** » Wed Dec 06, 2017 8:17 pm

sespie wrote:Your place names never cease to amuse. "Sodington" and "Mamble" are delightful - which prompted me to look up the house on Google Earth. Magnificent!
Just the place to have Jensen prototypes strewn about the gravel driveway.

I used to enjoy driving through Wyre Piddle near Evesham

Post by **witkowski** » Thu Dec 07, 2017 3:48 am

Not to mention Piddletrenthide and Piddlehinton along the River Piddle in Dorset

Jan

Grant · Post by **Grant** » Thu Dec 07, 2017 7:33 am

I was lost trying to find a town near me, I wound the window down at the lights and shouted to a passerby "Leatherhead"... he then wanted to fight me as he thought I was calling him names

R.D. Sigi Herring · Post by **R.D. Sigi Herring** » Sun Dec 10, 2017 12:06 pm

A girlfriend of mine used to live at “Slutty Bottom” near Abergavenny.

Post by **sespie** » Sun Dec 10, 2017 9:57 pm

These are gold. I must admit that, on trips to England and driving about, I have actually laughed out loud at some of them.

Though I suppose we do have the Maori prefix "Whaka" in a lot of place names - and the "Wh" is pronounced as an "F". As in "Whakapapa".

Barrie · Post by **Barrie** » Mon Dec 11, 2017 1:22 am

Heres mine: Butt Hole Lane, Shepshed, Loughborough, LE12 9BN
But didn't this thread start off on resignations?
Aren't we off pissed?

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