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<blockquote data-quote="Jeremy Churchill 1" data-source="post: 8810" data-attributes="member: 3825"><p><strong>Thanks!</strong></p><p></p><p>Thanks to all who contributed to this. I've always thought it funny that we Brits are so schizophrenic about our measurements - beer in pints, wine in 75cls, whisky in drams, etc. The thought of a plus 40 thou rebore on an 84mm barrel, and so on. . . .</p><p></p><p>Anyway, the cause of all this is now past, and was completely irrelevant when the time came. I was trying to get a hire van, and only one smaller than a Luton or a 1.5-ton (tonne?) thing with a tail-lift was available in the time required - a small Transit Connect. Anyhow, I had worked out, thanks to Tony, that I could just get a Vin in there, so turned up to collect it, only to find that the previous hirer had just wrapped it round a tree!</p><p></p><p>Fortunately for me, the very-nice-man-in-the-office was so embarrassed about this that he'd rung a neighbouring branch and found a vast VW that could've taken half-a-dozen (sorry - 6) Vins at once. (No, I don't know why it wasn't available before, either - but he let me have it at the same price as the much smaller thing, so I didn't wait around to find out) So I set off into the sunset and all's fine now. Had to have a 0.473176-litre or two on getting home, though, after tacking round the M25 all day . . .</p><p></p><p>TTFN</p><p></p><p>Jeremy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jeremy Churchill 1, post: 8810, member: 3825"] [b]Thanks![/b] Thanks to all who contributed to this. I've always thought it funny that we Brits are so schizophrenic about our measurements - beer in pints, wine in 75cls, whisky in drams, etc. The thought of a plus 40 thou rebore on an 84mm barrel, and so on. . . . Anyway, the cause of all this is now past, and was completely irrelevant when the time came. I was trying to get a hire van, and only one smaller than a Luton or a 1.5-ton (tonne?) thing with a tail-lift was available in the time required - a small Transit Connect. Anyhow, I had worked out, thanks to Tony, that I could just get a Vin in there, so turned up to collect it, only to find that the previous hirer had just wrapped it round a tree! Fortunately for me, the very-nice-man-in-the-office was so embarrassed about this that he'd rung a neighbouring branch and found a vast VW that could've taken half-a-dozen (sorry - 6) Vins at once. (No, I don't know why it wasn't available before, either - but he let me have it at the same price as the much smaller thing, so I didn't wait around to find out) So I set off into the sunset and all's fine now. Had to have a 0.473176-litre or two on getting home, though, after tacking round the M25 all day . . . TTFN Jeremy [/QUOTE]
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