Grey Motor info

[jwm]

Interesting article, very innocent days. I see a reference to Jack competing at the Silverdale Hill Climb Track on page 3, believe it or not the track is still there, or at least it was in 2000. I rode around it on a trail bike at that time and it was in surprisingly good condition.

[Not Happy Jan]

Great link  Gary
My uncle lived opposite the surfers track and I remember going over there as a kid to watch the races and the smash up derby
Nick

[Dr_Terry]

I thought that one was solved: Waggott Engineering Yagoona.

cheers
RET

Maybe not RET, I have to agree with Alex on that one, it's only an educated guess.

Merv Waggott's workshop was located at Mayvic St Greenacre, which is a good distance from Yagoona.

'W E' could still be Waggott Engineering, but what does the 'Y' signify ?

Dr Terry

[NES304]

Yagoona?

[fc4me]

My personal opinion is its not waggott engineering, i can remember reading an article in an old sports car world mag i think it was that broke down the initials and waggott wasnt there but im stuffed if i can find the article again.

[Ray Bell]

Originally posted by NES304
You still have not explained the Leeches comment?

Sorry...

When I posted that there was a whole bunch of yellow squares on the forum page warning about bandwidth usage and 'leaches'.

Now to offer some more broadband usage, here are pics sent to me indirectly from Norm Darwin:

This is the first Australian-built prototype:



The inset enlargement of the engine is blown up further here:



And here is a prototype engine, casting date 19th August 1946, with the CWC name clearly shown:



This picture is from his book. He explains the 'H196' to be the casting date, 'H' for August (8th month), '19' for the 19th and '6' for 1946.

And from another contact I have this photo of Charlie McCarron's engine from Canowindra, this is in body No 46, it's engine No 1055 (numbers started at 1001):



Note that the casting number no longer is prefixed by an 'X' (experimental?) and it's tidier, moved a little to the right and the sevens are a slightly different shape.

[NES304]

Whoa that's early

At least we know what the leeches thing is

[Ray Bell]

Yes, it's early all right...

I'm hoping to get a couple more before too long. And the leeches are still there on one of the other threads, so what's the deal with them?



They were worse than this the other day!

[NES304]

 ??? ??? ???
Never seen em

[Professor Grey]

RE: Leeches
This article may help you understand a bit more on "Leeches".
http://www.buffyguide.com/webmasters/directlink.shtml
There are some naughty people out there. >:(
Cheers,
Prof. Grey

[Ray Bell]

The only thing I want to know about the leeches is how they get there, where they are from...

That doesn't mention them at all.

[Professor Grey]

RE: Leeches

The only thing I want to know about the leeches is how they get there, where they are from...

That doesn't mention them at all.

The following is taken directly from the article:

What is direct linking?   Direct linking is when you display an image from one site on a different site (such as on your own site, or on a forum or blog). If the site you are direct linking to is yours, there is nothing wrong with this. But if you are direct linking to a site that is not yours, it is bandwith theft (also called hot linking/hotlinking, remote linking, remote loading, or leeching).

Therefore, would it not follow that someone who engages in "leeching" is a leech?

If you are seeing the leeches on your posts, but nobody else is seeing them, I think someone is sending you a pretty severe message. (not me!  ;D)

[Ray Bell]

The 'leech' messages are not in my posts...

[RET]

Wow. I haven't seen that leeches artwork in a *long* time. I did that, back in the day when bandwidth was costing us a lot more than it does now, and there were a lot of people hotlinking to images on fefcholden.org.au

I'm amazed that you're seeing it, though, and no-one else. That suggests you've got some links to some pretty ancient stuff, or your internet access is through a proxy that does something very weird. Next time you do see it, can you PM me the address of the page you saw it on?

cheers
RET

[Ray Bell]

RET, when it's in the mood, it's on every page I open. Including the one where I'm typing this response right now!

It came up again on this one:

http://fefcholden.org.au/forum/index.php/board,35.0.html

But I would suggest that any page I open on this forum right now will be full of the leeches!

[Glenn 'Stinky' Stankevicius]

Ray, I'd suggest your ISP is doing something weird, the URL you posted was for a board smiley and the screen grabs showed normal board formatting images.
Try sending some screen caps and URLs to your ISPs helpdesk and see what they say  :-\

[Ray Bell]

I currently have several pages of at least five forums open, singular pages of several more.

But this is the only one where I'm having this kind of problem. Or any kind of problem for that matter.

As I type this I see three smileys in a row, then our mate the leech, then all the rest of the smileys.

[RET]

I've removed the leech-imposing code from the server. You should never suffer the curse of leeches again. :)

[DN2168]

Maybe the leeches ate the canadian blocks  ::) :o ???

Dean.

[Maco]

Merv Waggott's workshop was located at Mayvic St Greenacre, which is a good distance from Yagoona.

Dr Terry

I went to Bankstown Technical College with Merv Waggott's son in the mid Sixties & their workshop was in Greenacre.

I also lived near by.

John