Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/30

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: Re: "demos"
From: Jim Laurel <jplaurel@microsoft.com>
Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 08:41:38 -0700

Funny this should come up...  I was at a wedding yesterday and the couple
had hired a 56 Rolls Royce to take them away from the chapel.  The thing
refused to start for a while, but persistant cranking and gas pedal stomping
by the driver finally got it going.

- -----Original Message-----
From: Marc James Small [mailto:msmall@roanoke.infi.net]
Sent: Sunday, May 30, 1999 7:01 AM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Re: "demos"


At 09:21 PM 5/29/99 -0700, Mr Code Cypher 793582 wrote:
>
>
>I believe that Rolls Royce cars, at least prior to their association with
>BMW,  has no record of any faulty products.
>
>Isn't the first ever built Silver Ghost still in running order?

Don't be foolish.  Rolls Royce has a record of quite a few mechanical
breakdowns.  Hell, read TE Lawrence's SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM:  the Rolls
Royce armoured cars used in the Desert in '17 and '18 frequently broke
down, they were just better than any other item of like equipment.  I have
met former RAF pilots who bailed out when their RR Merlin engines went
west.  I know Rolls Royce car owners whose engines have spun bearings.  And
so forth.

Rolls Royce gear is immensely reliable, but NOTHING human is absolutely
bullet-proof.

Marc

msmall@roanoke.infi.net  FAX:  +540/343-7315
Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!