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[Kevin Wood]

I couldn't be doing with this new fangled stop/start thingy, defo not for me, it would be like driving a manual.......

It would be like driving a 1970's Ford, where it would stall at every junction.*


* - for the lucky drivers who managed to get it started in the morning in the first place 

[aaronjb]

Oh aye, such much easier in your youth with hot tube ignition, a starting handle and oil lamps.

 

I think you just summed half the membership up

[Kevin Wood]

Oh aye, such much easier in your youth with hot tube ignition, a starting handle and oil lamps.

 

I think you just summed half the membership up

Careful! You'll get that DTM bloke over-excited.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEejYf6cfuE

It would be a bit of a faff at every set of traffic lights, to be fair. I wonder how many shotgun cartridges you'd need to get across Milton Keynes?

[aaronjb]

That .. is the best video I've watched all day

[Rods2]

Oh aye, such much easier in your youth with hot tube ignition, a starting handle and oil lamps.

 

I think you just summed half the membership up

So much easier for Lord Opti, he just got the butler to walk in front with a red flag.

[Rods2]

Oh aye, such much easier in your youth with hot tube ignition, a starting handle and oil lamps.

 

I think you just summed half the membership up

Anybody else got a copy of my book on modern motor car construction? So we can discuss some of the finer points it is called "Motor Car Construction by R. W. A. Brewer", no ISBN I'm afraid but it was published by Crosby Lockwood and Son in 1912.

Chapter VII - Ignition Mechanism

The ignition of the explosive mixture in the motor car cylinders is now effected by the means of an electric spark. Not so many years ago, engines with tube ignition were still met on the road.....

Electricity may be provided by three different sources in a modern car:
1. Primary dry batteries....
2. Secondary batteries or accumulators....
3. Dynamos or magneto machines.....
The applications of sources (1) and (2) are somewhat identical, as the primary current at a pressure of about four or more volts is conducted round the primary winding of an induction coil.....

They don't make them like this anymore.

[aaronjb]

4V eh, steady on there!

Do you think R. W. A. Brewer is any relation of Mike Brewer of Wheeler Dealer fame?