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RNRN68 Winter-AL4 Issue 68 Winter 2010/2011 The journal of the Russell Newbery Engine Owners & Enthusiasts Club Dive Dive Dive! Potty Woes Crank it Up Rally Update www.russellnewbery.co.uk/Register WHO’S WHO CONTENTS Front cover: Stourbridge Bonded Warehouse. (Photo Rob RUSSELL NEWBERY REGISTER LTD Davies) Back cover: Hoar frost at Whittington. (Photo Rob Davies) Vice Presidents: Lady Carol Stamp, Mrs Susan Gibbs, Dav- id Thirlby 3 CHAIRMAN’S CHAT Web site: www.russellnewbery.co.uk/Register The Russell Newbery Register is a non profit distributing company limited by guarantee. FROM THE EDITOR Founded: 1994 Registered in England No: 346943 Officers: 4 DON’T FORGET THE DIVER Chairman (Director): David Kay Phillips t: 01562 700365 m: 07831 285559 From Norman Woolley [our own Jacques Cousteau] Secretary (Director): Kevin McNiff m: 07866 424988 [email protected] PLANT TALK Director: Norman C Mitchell t: 01452 415420 [email protected] Administration (membership, finance): Rob Davies 5 POTTY WOES! 55 Noddington Lane, Whittington, Lichfield, Staffs. WS14 We’ve all been there - full toilet and service point out of 9PA order. Jim Storey regales BW for poor information t/f: 01543 432079 m: 07801 842337 [email protected] 6 CRANK IT UP Administration (newsletter) Revisiting Graham Pearson’s look at crankshaft develop- Editor: Kevin McNiff (as above) ment Production: Andrew Laycock m: 07870 294580 [email protected] 8 BOAT FOR SALE Administration (merchandise): Neil Mason Member Mark Welch profiles NB Albert No.3 Hillcrest, Chapel Lane, Westhumble, Surrey. RH5 6AH t: 01306 889073 [email protected] 9 LETTERS PAGE Rally Organiser: Kevin McNiff (as above) Webmaster: Andrew Laycock (as above) Kevin McNiff asks “Is BW really fit for purpose?” 10 2011 RALLY UPDATE RUSSELL NEWBERY REGISTER PROPERTY LTD With a bit more detail or an explanation A non profit distributing company limited by guarantee 11 MORE BEER? Founded 2004 Registered in England No: 5316384 Some insights on the problems of providing real ale at Directors: Stephen Burt, Clive Henderson, Rob Davies the rally bar RN DIESEL ENGINE CO LTD Unless otherwise noted, Copyright © Russell Newbery Register, 2011 With the changes in fuel and additives, the prospect of a breakdown may 4 Oak House, Royal Oak Way North, Royal Oak Industrial have potentially increased. Estate, Daventry NN11 8PQ t: 01327 700023 The Register’s associate Company provides new engines, Remember that RNR members benefit from a spares and re-builds. discount on all levels of cover so why not join up this year. Managing Director: David Kay Phillips t: 01327 700023 Field Engineers: Ian Crompton m: 07831 841108 And while we are on the subject, filters are avail- Richard Milligan m:07973 826260 able from the RN Diesel Engine Company. General Enquiries: [email protected] Sales Enquiries: [email protected] Engineering Enquiries: [email protected] Next edition All contributions for the Spring 2011 edition will be gratefully received. Do not worry about format — in true RN fashion the editorial team can cope with almost anything! Copy deadline is 15th April 2011 Corporate Member 2 RNR Newsletter : Winter 2010/2011 Chairman’s Chat The crystal ball must have worked well as I decided to drain the whole system in October instead of keeping the central heating running, so I hope that when we do go to the boat all the pipe work will still be in working order. At home we were a good advert for central heating. One evening the house suddenly felt cold and we realised that the heating had packed up. The new condensing boiler had frozen at the external outlet pipe but, after consultation with the installer, a kettle of boiling water was drizzled over the pipe to thaw the ice and all was well. So that was the order each evening – to warm the external pipe work! With best wishes for a Happy and Healthy New Year, and trouble free boating. Christmas comes but once a year, except in our house. Our daughter and family went down with a cough virus A word from ‘er indoors: Indoors being the operative word – and they didn’t want to risk bringing any infection here, so who wants to be outdoors in this cold weather! kept away. The presents are in a pile in the corner, looking rather forlorn without the Christmas tree. However, David is progressing well after his surgery; it is going to be we shall be having the celebration the last weekend in the a slow job. His Consultant is reluctant to do anything month, (January) complete with turkey etc., not that I am about his voice until healing is complete, as such a tiny bit affected as I am still ‘nil by mouth’. My claim to fame – no of surgery could cause a lot of problems if healing is alcohol for about 22 months! incomplete. We have not done any boating since the Rally at Thank you all for your good wishes; they certainly do help Ellesmere Port, which we thoroughly enjoyed. A big thank and give us a boost. you to all who helped us at the locks. We did go out for a day with Eleanor’s relatives from Canada, just to give them a taste. From the Editor New Members Welcome to the winter 2010/2011 edition of A net increase of just 2 takes the total membership up to the Russell Newbery Newsletter. December 248 – 250 looms nearer. My apologies to Peter & saw some of the coldest weather in Britain Christine Yarde for omitting the name of their boat – Empress of Blandings - in the last welcome list. Since for many a year with a total freeze of the the last Issue we have signed up 4 new members so it is canals reminiscent of 1962/3. It’s over for the a very warm RNR welcome to: moment but maybe not done with? Mike Thornton, Milton Keynes NB Denmark With David making steady progress, I’m sure we can look forward to seeing him and Eleanor at Stourb.ridge in June Tim & Lorna Wooding, Rugby NB Anonimity If you filled your diesel tanks before January, the changes imposed on the UK by the EU will Lucy & Gerald O’Donnell, Burton on Trent NB Sweet not be of a worry yet about about low Liam sulphur or “FAME”. Just as well as with all Michael Beales, Henfield NB William such impositions, there is still a lot of confusion amongst suppliers and retailers. I’m sure this will be a topic for discussion at the rally. Before you set out, maybe its time to check your fuel system and clean or change the filter? Did I mention rally? Please read all about it and get those entry forms into Pauline Mitchell as soon as possible. See you there! RNR Newsletter : Winter 2010/11 3 Don’t Forget The Diver Norman Woolley writes: “Now for to search for a missing person in grav- around. Instead you had to hop something entirely different, reminis- el pits around Heathrow Airport. around like a demented kangaroo. cences from my youth. That’s chal- Thank goodness we did not find the The recompression chamber was an- lenging your memory I hear you say!” body. Not a good experience to come other interesting experience. As the across a corpse in the nil visibility of pressure was increased it got much I used to be in the school swimming the water through which we were warmer and your voice assumed a team and when I left school, way back swimming. higher pitch, then as the pressure in 1953 I got interested in under water dropped the air got colder and gener- swimming using a mask, flippers and The winters in those days were severe ated a swirling mist. snorkel, one of those with a ping pong and lakes were often frozen over giv- ball on the top of the tube. In a mood ing us the opportunity of diving under Before our two club expeditions to the of unbridled generosity towards my the ice. We went in on a line from the Mediterranean I had dived with the younger brother, I had bought these edge of the lake, otherwise we may owner of the diving school in Corsica. for him, but as he showed no interest I not have been able to find our way out On one dive we explored the wreck of thought I would try them out. Until and been trapped under the ice. I had a flying fortress which had been shot then I had swum underwater without taken a small coal axe in the water down in the last war. Quite an eerie such aids, as I thought it was a rather with me in order to hack a hole in the experience as it sat on the sea floor, sissy thing to do. I was astounded ice. It took a good ten minutes of 100 feet under water, looking as what a new world was revealed to me hacking to make a hole the size of though it was ready to take off. I had after all the years in which I had en- your fist, as every time you hit the un- an alarming incident down there, as I joyed swimming. I told one of my derside of the ice it pushed you away. was about to swim out of the wrecked neighbours, where I was living with Remember you are floating in water fuselage I got caught up on loose ca- my parents, about this experience and and hitting a solid object, so I can ap- bles inside the aircraft.
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