2007 Defender latest.

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Matthew Maddock <[email protected]> wrote:

> > We're *always* hearing about moving manfacturing abroad as it will
> > reduce cost and how production improvements are going to significantly
> > reduce overheads - but despite sacrificing our jobs prices *never*
> > drop. That's why I'll never buy a Dyson - all those poor sods in
> > Malmsbury who sweated bood for him.......
>
> Ah, but wasn't that (or at least in part) to do with the fact that the
> local council wouldn't give him planning permission to build/extend the
> factory he wanted to in the SW? Was on the local news at the time I
> recall. Don't you just love local councilors!
>
> ah..found the article...
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/1802723.stm
>
> Matt

A handy excuse no doubt (call me cynic if you like!), and yes, local
councilors do live in some strange world where banging on about
bringing jobs to an area is *so* important, and then make it
impossible to do so - but the real culprits are the planning
officers who have no come-back whatsoever on their descisions,
as in if you win an appeal you can *never* get your costs, so they
can fight you just for the fun of it. They can do as they please,
without any fear of their descision being seriously questioned -
leaving the game wide open to corruption and dishonesty.

(I had a run-in with Staffordshire Moorlands District Council
over a boudry of domestic curtillage - they didn't even have
an accurate map, the one from the Land Registry clear showed
that the field (complete with field number) boundry going
one way, and their map showed a large part of garden was in the
field. They had deliberately moved it, as from the Land Registry
map we could have got a house in our garden, never mind a garage.
The bloke was quite open in saying that he "couldn't give a toss"
what I thought when presented with the real map. I have since
then had no regard whatsoever for planning officers, and never will.)

Richard
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Richard Hi,

I think your insurance company may be a bit upset. On the other hand with
diesel on the road I guess nothing could be done.

The good thing is that no one was hurt, metal and glass can always be
repaired or replaced and after all this is why we pay those very heavy and
expensive insurance premiums.

Take care
Pantelis

"beamendsltd" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> In message <[email protected]>
> "Pantelis Giamarellos" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Ian thanks.
> >
> > This is the one.
> >
> > 12 days ago my Discovery was hit by a Peugeot 206 after its driver lost
> > control due to excessive speeding on a tight 90 degrees turn.
> > If I were to be driving an ordinary car it is almost sure that I would
have
> > been injured on my legs.
> > The car has not yet been taken to the bodyrepairs shop because of the
summer
> > holidays but it is almost certain that it does have a bent radius arm to
> > chassis mount, a bent front axle and probably a bent chassis.
> >
> > The other driver was 100% responsible for excessive speeding on a
populated
> > area (my house is located right on one of the most crowded sea resorts
> > around Athens and at the time of the accident (18.15) there were several
> > hundred people on the beach and on the road), having almost useless
tyres
> > (they had less than a mm of tread on them) and most importantly did not
know
> > how to drive (when the Peugeot started sliding he stepped on the brake
pedal
> > instead of pressing the accelerator to pull the sliding rear forwards)
> >
> > So in this case will I be very politicaly incorrect if I say that I do
not
> > care for the other driver? My Landy proved strong enough to protect its
> > driver. The fact that it wrecked the Peugeot and still has not harmed
its
> > driver is extremely good but I am sure he will never forget the view of
a
> > Discovery's front bumper approaching him (even if I were standing still
> > since I had stopped on my pace and was just waiting for his car to hit
mine)
> >
> > Take care
> > Pantelis
> >
>
> At about the same time I skidded my 110 (diesel on the road) into
> the back of a 205. I'm really miffed that I slightly bent my front
> bumper - though the 205 was a mess! Had I been driving any other
> vehicle that I can think of I'd have been looking at a new front end
> (even on a Discovery I'd have done the front bumper, lights,
> front valance and quite likely the radiator), never mind carrying
> on the journey without even bothering to seriously check for damage.
> Just that one incident tells me which vehicle I'd rather drive!
>
> Richard
>
> > "Ian Rawlings" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> > news:[email protected]...
> > > On 2006-08-26, Pantelis Giamarellos <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > > some time ago a URL has been posted with the results of a survey run
by
> > the
> > > > UK police and MoT (IIRC) which showed that the Defender was the
safest
> > > > vehicle when you were to be involved in a car accident with
fatalities.
> > >
> > > It showed that in an accident involving fatalities, where a defender
> > > is involved the deaths are likely to be in the other car. This could
> > > be taken as evidence that the Defender is safer, although personally I
> > > think it shows the opposite!
> > >
> > > There's a link to the PDF on the following page, I've not tested it
> > though.
> > >
> > >
> >
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_accident_statistics_on_a_model-by-model_ba
> > sis
> > >
> > > --
> > > Blast off and strike the evil Bydo empire!
> >
> >
>
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beamendsltd wrote:
>
> At about the same time I skidded my 110 (diesel on the road) into
> the back of a 205. I'm really miffed that I slightly bent my front
> bumper - though the 205 was a mess! Had I been driving any other
> vehicle that I can think of I'd have been looking at a new front end
> (even on a Discovery I'd have done the front bumper, lights,
> front valance and quite likely the radiator), never mind carrying
> on the journey without even bothering to seriously check for damage.
> Just that one incident tells me which vehicle I'd rather drive!

Our gardener managed to hit my 90 one morning when he was dozing. Near
enough totalled the front wing of his van (just driving around the
driveway, so no high speeds or anything), but just pushed the bottom
corner of the Landy in about an inch. Oh, and dented the exhaust pipe
and bashed a chip out of the tail light. Shocking.