Find the answer in the FCF..

[NewcastleFalcon]

Spot on! Great song but "what were they on about?"

Regards Neil

[mickthemaverick]

Spoiler: show

Having looked at that I now assume them to be a bunch of Druid like hippies or maybe angels riding white swans ?

[bobins]

Spot on! Great song but "what were they on about?"

Regards Neil

No idea, 'cos I think they were stoned

[mickthemaverick]

Just a quick update from the other day:

I can't find any mention of Eamonn Andrews working for Pathé so I'll go with Eade or possibly Bob Danvers-Walker.
No I was not referring to a Vespa
A different form of transport to get you to the airport (almost!)

Have a listen to Moths Mick....Eamonn did do this narration for Pathe.

https://www.britishpathe.com/video/moths/query/Eamonn

REgards Neil

Absolute final proof of what we had accepted anyway. I received this email today:

from email screenshot

[NewcastleFalcon]

Good work Mick!

REgards Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

I was looking for a vague recollection of someone building a large automotive factory in Romania and came across a delightful bit of off-topicness by Paul-R, which was preceeded by an intitial one from Steve! I thought it must have been a contribution to one of the threads on the Off Topic Chat Lounge, but no bang in the middle of a problem solving thread on the Citroen section of the forum.

So in 2011, what was outside the Paul-R's hotel when he paid a visit to Romania

Of course should Paul see this post first, he wont need to look it up!

REgards Neil

[mickthemaverick]

I was looking for a vague recollection of someone building a large automotive factory in Romania and came across a delightful bit of off-topicness by Paul-R, which was preceeded by an intitial one from Steve! I thought it must have been a contribution to one of the threads on the Off Topic Chat Lounge, but no bang in the middle of a problem solving thread on the Citroen section of the forum.

So in 2011, what was outside the Paul-R's hotel when he paid a visit to Romania

Of course should Paul see this post first, he wont need to look it up!

REgards Neil

That was the bust :

BFTF

[NewcastleFalcon]

It is indeed Mick, often a points scorer for me as an answer on University Challenge

The factory I was thinking of wasn't in Romainia at all but in Komarom, Hungary built by Korean firm SK Innovation as reported on this thread

Electric Vehicle Batteries...the Race

Regards Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

The original purpose of this thread was to retrieve from time to time some of the good stuff from the FCF Archives which otherwise lies dormant.

Well my little google query on "frenchcarforum bots" relating to Huskyxantia's question today, produced as its first image the Milton Keynes shopping robot, but the second image was this, a very nice bit of creativity on Project Sticktiva.



Post link here if you want to "read around" it.

viewtopic.php?p=447722#p447722

Regards Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

I like stumbling across links back to things covered in the FCF threads languishing unseen by the current audience in the archives. Today's stumbling landed on the the wonderful "Citroen XM multimedia and other early IT in cars"

Yes there was a time, not so long ago, when there were zero of the fabled "lines of software" in cars, now of course in 2024 no car never leaves the showroom without at least a few million. The thread focuses on the early days of multimedia, and IT in cars. and covers to date...

Thread link viewtopic.php?p=674926#p674926

The Citroen XM Multimedia
The Citroen Xsara CE Windows
Tomorrows world with "Navigation by Cassette tape!"
Magnetti Morelli's Route planner
Honda's Electro Gyro-Cator
James Bond's get Me to Geneva Sat Nav in his DB5 with the "Globes"
The C5 Traffic Master

and this from 1930...bit more manual!

Neil

[CitroJim]

Just proves there's nothing new under the sun!

Traffic Master was in the S2 Xantia too...

[NewcastleFalcon]

This thread has plenty good stuff in it, even on this currently the latest page. The slicing through the boot floor to get better access being a case in point!

Can the thread it be added to ...yes it can. A decent thread for a browse in any case. Back at the very start, a bit of an observation from page 2, and a nice picture of the Falcon Xantia No 2, in November 2010, when there was an absolute deluge of the White Stuff.

... I did discovered this pic of my Xantia from a November 2010 post in my searches. Now that was a proper beast from the East (North or whatever)

Also discovered that after that November 2010 post, my next one was March 2011 in the following year! Looks like in those days I just contributed when there was something up with the car Shame on me!

Xantia No2 November 2010

Neil

Neil