utterly random picture thread.

[MrLongbeard]

Moylan arrow - which many people are unaware of

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Isn't it the convention now that the pump handle in the graphic denotes the side of the car that the fuel filler is on?

(ie, pump handle on left, filler on left, etc)

Sometimes, other times there's a tiny wee black arrow

[Rockburner]

Moylan arrow - which many people are unaware of

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Isn't it the convention now that the pump handle in the graphic denotes the side of the car that the fuel filler is on?

(ie, pump handle on left, filler on left, etc)

Sometimes, other times there's a tiny wee black arrow

On a black background that lights up black when the tank is empty?

[MrLongbeard]

Isn't it the convention now that the pump handle in the graphic denotes the side of the car that the fuel filler is on?

(ie, pump handle on left, filler on left, etc)

Sometimes, other times there's a tiny wee black arrow

On a black background that lights up black when the tank is empty?

:dunno: I'd have to ask the staff

[Count Steer]

Think all our vehicles in the last 30 years have had pump + arrow. Never seen the 'handle is the indicator' version.

[Taipan]

I'm not posh...

[Dodgy69]

I'm posh, I bloody well knew it...

[Taipan]

During World War II, Italian doctors at the Fatebenefratelli Hospital in Rome devised an ingenious plan to save Jews from Nazi persecution by inventing a fictitious disease called Syndrome K. This fake illness was described as highly contagious, deadly, and disfiguring, which deterred Nazi soldiers from inspecting the hospital's patients closely. The doctors, including Giovanni Borromeo, Vittorio Sacerdoti, and Adriano Ossicini, admitted Jewish refugees under the guise of Syndrome K, effectively quarantining them and keeping them safe from deportation to concentration camps.
The ruse began on October 16, 1943, when Nazi soldiers raided a Jewish ghetto near the Tiber River. The hospital, already known as a safe haven for Jews, opened its doors to those seeking refuge. The doctors created patient records indicating that the refugees were suffering from Syndrome K, which was named after Nazi commanders Albert Kesselring and Herbert Kappler. The fear of contracting this mysterious and deadly disease kept the Nazis at bay, allowing the hospital staff to protect at least 20 Jewish lives during this dark period.
Via Historian’s Den

[Rockburner]

Think all our vehicles in the last 30 years have had pump + arrow. Never seen the 'handle is the indicator' version.

IIRC my VW Eos is like that (ie, no arrow).

[Taipan]

TBH its been around for so long I didn't know people didn't realise their was an indication on the fuel gauge to show you what side the flap was on!

[Sunny]

Moylan arrow - which many people are unaware of

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Isn't it the convention now that the pump handle in the graphic denotes the side of the car that the fuel filler is on?

(ie, pump handle on left, filler on left, etc)

I was assuming that Horse's post was showing the origin of the idea. Though I'm used to looking at the arrow, not the pump handle!

[Taipan]

A poster on a wall in Ebury Bridge Road, Westminster, London, advising job seekers that casual work clearing snow will be available in the event of a snowfall, 17th November 1937.

Photograph by Fred Morley for the Fox Photos Press Agency.

[Noggin]

[Yorick]

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[Yorick]

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Gary Gritter only does minor roads

[David]

Think all our vehicles in the last 30 years have had pump + arrow. Never seen the 'handle is the indicator' version.

IIRC my VW Eos is like that (ie, no arrow).

My Clio has the handle thing...but the o/half's Jazz doesn't....

[Skub]

Drawer inspection day for hoomanz. Required some necessary rearrangement,plus a nailboard was found to be badly under chewed.

Now remedied and found to be satisfactory.

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[Yorick]

2,274 miles walking in last 12 months

That's more than I did on the GSXR on the road
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[Horse]

Worrizzit????

Found it alongside a footpath, about 50m from the road.

About 1m end to end.

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[Count Steer]

Worrizzit????

Found it alongside a footpath, about 50m from the road.

About 1m end to end.

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Failed prototype Flymo.

[Skub]

Worrizzit????

Found it alongside a footpath, about 50m from the road.

About 1m end to end.

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A Harley Ferguson cruise control.