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[ian senior]

Marvellous thread that really should be a "sticky" - it's so good, and so important.

[condor]

It is a great thread I really enjoy re-reading Ian's experiences but guess it'll be a couple of months before he gets round to his Le Mans tales.

Originally posted by Ian Stewart


op in hospital next, then broken promises will be repaired (Le Mans '52 and '53). Meanwhile, many thanks for all your good wishes.

[Ray Bell]

Have you heard, condor? How's he getting on?

[rosemeyer]

Thank you Ray lets keep this alive

[rosemeyer]

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Marvellous thread that really should be a "sticky" - it's so good, and so important
What do you think?

[condor]

Originally posted by Ray Bell
Have you heard, condor? How's he getting on?

You don't get to have an op if you're well - so wait till he's had it and is better

[Ray Bell]

I thought you might have had some sort of progress report...

Are you in contact while he's in hospital?

[condor]

Originally posted by Ray Bell

Are you in contact while he's in hospital?

NO I'm not...any jokes of mine would have him being readmitted with a ruptured spleen
...and they're not even that funny


edited to add...that was a joke

You see I'm not funny

[Richard Jenkins]

Has anybody actually ever suffered from a ruptured spleen? How does a spleen get ruptured in the first place, I wonder?

Ray, why not contact Ian yourself? He last posted only a couple of days ago, after all...

[Ian Stewart]

Oooops!

Yes I do look at my computer when I can, but this is no time to write anything lengthy. There's been a lot to sort out before the op at the end of next week, but I'll get down to Le Mans etc. when they let me out of jail...!

Very grateful for all your kind enquiries.

[D-Type]

I'm sure I speak for all of us in saying that we hope the op goes well.

[Richard Jenkins]

Sorry Ian, I didn't mean to avert attention towards anything at this busy time for yourself. Best of luck with the operation & look forward to hearing more tales once you're out!

[Gary C]

hope to see you back here as soon as possible, Ian !

[Ray Bell]

Originally posted by Richie Jenkins
Has anybody actually ever suffered from a ruptured spleen? How does a spleen get ruptured in the first place, I wonder?

Ray, why not contact Ian yourself? He last posted only a couple of days ago, after all...

Funny you should ask that...

I was talking to my cousin for the first time in maybe 35 years last night... and he's had one. It happened when he was a kid, maybe six years old... he'd been hit by a car previously (very careless kid!) and the second time a car hit him (well, I did say very careless...) his spleen was ruptured and they removed it.

Thanks for the suggestion Richie, I assumed that condor knew what was going on because she has 'outside' contact with Ian.

[RTH]

Ray, while you are there as our senior Australian correspondent, just as an aside, we had a report here this morning that a large flock of seagulls flew headlong in to the faces of a horse race at Sandown in Australia yesterday , unseating nearly the whole field of jockeys.

Would I be right in thinking this is the same venue as the motor racing circuit and has this happened before during a motor race, is there something special about the location ?

Sounded a strange and dangerous event.

[KJJ]

There's a photo of the incident here

[Ray Bell]

Originally posted by RTH
Ray, while you are there as our senior Australian correspondent, just as an aside, we had a report here this morning that a large flock of seagulls flew headlong in to the faces of a horse race at Sandown in Australia yesterday, unseating nearly the whole field of jockeys.

Would I be right in thinking this is the same venue as the motor racing circuit and has this happened before during a motor race, is there something special about the location ?

Sounded a strange and dangerous event.

I've never heard of it happening before... but I don't follow horse racing at all...

The only time I get near horse racing is when their tracks share grounds with motor racing circuits, as we have at Sandown, and had at Warwick Farm and Towac.

It's a long way from the bay, really. I saw plenty of seagulls at Phillip Island, but I don't recall ever seeing one at Sandown. Maybe when the weather is nasty on the bay?

[Catalina Park]

I have seen seagulls get hit by cars at Sandown in the past and I have also seen a few seagulls get hit at the Island by cars and bikes.

[ian senior]

Thread bumping, I'm afraid, but for a very good reason - for those who have never seen the wonderful contributions by Ian Stewart, which have been mentioned elsewhere recently. A quite superb thread for lots of other reasons too.

[Bjorn Kjer]

[fw07c]

Has anybody any idea where the name Connaught is derived from? Was it a location?

[David McKinney]

Originally posted by fw07c
Has anybody any idea where the name Connaught is derived from? Was it a location?

Yes and no
The original company was Continental Automobiles, which sounds like the ancient Irish province of Connaught

[Ted Walker]

David I thought it was Continental Cars,or was that the second company ????

[Peter Morley]

Originally posted by Ted Walker
David I thought it was Continental Cars,or was that the second company ????

Continental Cars was the garage name by adapting it to Automobiles it simply sounded better - ConCars would not have had the same appeal!

There is a reasonable article on Connaughts in the current issue of Octane, that mentions the origins of the name etc.

It also shows the Lea-Francis engine from an L type which answers a question in another thread about the Berkshire special!

[ChrisJson]

I´m coming veeery late on this but as I found that it was among the most
mentioned at "TNF´s finest research" I thought I ought to read it. At the
beginning I was rather disappointed as the photos from the Connaught
workshop only was small RGB squares but then I started to read Ian Stewart´s
posts and was taken aback. The stories and anecdotes were so well composed
and with a stylistic sharpness worthy of a Nobel Prize winner.

However it ended all too soon so therefore I beg you Ian, if you still lurk around
in cyberspace and have the health & strength, please do tell us your adventures
during the ´52 & ´53 Le Mans races and any other stories you feel up to bestow
on us.

I´m sure I´m not the only one on TNF who would appreciate hearing from you again.

With my very best regards

Christer Johansson

exclaimer:I´m swedish so perhaps the grammar isn´t that good but at least I gave it a try.

Edited by ChrisJson, 28 January 2012 - 02:55.

[Eric Dunsdon]

I´m coming veeery late on this but as I found that it was among the most
mentioned at "TNF´s finest research" I thought I ought to read it. At the
beginning I was rather disappointed as the photos from the Connaught
workshop only was small RGB squares but then I started to read Ian Stewart´s
posts and was taken aback. The stories and anecdotes were so well composed
and with a stylistic sharpness worthy of a Nobel Prize winner.

However it ended all too soon so therefore I beg you Ian, if you still lurk around
in cyberspace and have the health & strenght, please do tell us your adventures
during the ´52 & ´53 Le Mans races and any other stories you feel up to bestow
on us.

I´m sure I´m not the only one on TNF who would appreciate hearing from you again.

With my very best regards

Christer Johansson

[RogerFrench]

Thank you Christer for reviving this thread. I'd have missed it otherwise, and it's wonderful!