MrsTrellisfromNorthWales Posted June 2, 2006 Share Posted June 2, 2006 Thames Water argues that its pipes were heavily damaged during the Blitz and therefore it is hard for it to tackle leakage. This is the place you should put your mouse and click. Right here. However, Mr Marsh said companies with high leakage rates had a perception problem with customers, particularly when they asked for customers to cut back on water usage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Tatlock Posted June 2, 2006 Share Posted June 2, 2006 Thames Water argues that its pipes were heavily damaged during the Blitz and therefore it is hard for it to tackle leakage. Geez!...I was expecting a satirical article! Just like their sewers, they are full of the proverbial. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrsTrellisfromNorthWales Posted June 2, 2006 Author Share Posted June 2, 2006 What makes it all the more delicious is the fact that Thames Water is owned by RWE. Which is a German company. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VinnieK Posted June 2, 2006 Share Posted June 2, 2006 Yeah, the Blitz, and the fact that Hitler has been spotted living in Gravesend and washes his car at least four times a week. He's even more obsessed with it than he was with that Lebensraum thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lonan3 Posted June 6, 2006 Share Posted June 6, 2006 Yeah, the Blitz, and the fact that Hitler has been spotted living in Gravesend and washes his car at least four times a week. He's even more obsessed with it than he was with that Lebensraum thing. And the car looks a bit like..... Wonder where he got it from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bombay Bad Boy Posted June 7, 2006 Share Posted June 7, 2006 Hitler has been spotted living in Gravesend and washes his car at least four times a week With a hosepipe, the bastard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amadeus Posted June 7, 2006 Share Posted June 7, 2006 And the car looks a bit like..... Wonder where he got it from? I'm very sorry to correct you here, but that's not his car. The Gröfaz drove a Mercedes, namely a 770K - here's a pictures of it with the proud owner: It was sometimes also referred to as "Grosser Mercedes" "Grosser" means Great or Big, and reading the specs, it appears to be a fitting name: Famous Automobiles: Adolf Hitler's Mercedes-Benz In 1941, it appears, Hitler ordered 2 or more 770-K Mercedes-Benz cars equipped for his personal use. To the 20'-long chassis were added 2,000 lbs. of armor plate and bullet-proof glass which, with 500 lbs. of fuel, oil, and radiator fluid, came to nearly 10,000 lbs. of weight per car. The armor plate is 1/2" thick while the glass is 1 1/4" and is said to have been tested by Hitler himself when he shot a Luger at it. One of the cars still bears a nicked side window. Engines in the 770-K put out 230 hp from single-overhead-cam straight-8s but employ dual carburetors and dual ignition, 2 plugs for each cylinder, to get it. Superchargers cut in automatically if the gas pedal is floored. Nevertheless, 100 mph was probably the top speed ever reached by these Hitler cars. And even with 51-gallon gas tanks, these gas eaters get barely 3 mi. to a gallon, affording a driving range of only 150 mi. Equipped with independent front and back power brakes that surpass U.S. safety requirements, the cars could be lubricated en route by a couple of pumps on a pedal on the driver's side. Many features, such as the 4-wheel independent suspension with coil springs and hydraulic shocks, were standard equipment not only on the Hitler cars but on other contemporary models of Mercedes as well. A car from Poland - the pure suggestion... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitro Posted June 7, 2006 Share Posted June 7, 2006 100 mph was probably the top speed ever reached by these Hitler cars. And even with 51-gallon gas tanks, these gas eaters get barely 3 mi. to a gallon, affording a driving range of only 150 mi By the sound of it, Its his fault for the oil crisis! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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