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Hi Charles, I agree "friends' association" is not ideal as a translation of Förderverein - I took it from dict.cc - but even my Langenscheidt Muret-Sanders can't do any better than "society for the promotion of..." --Bermicourt (talk) 06:39, 2 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Well, maybe one of us (or someone else, even?) will wake up one morning with a better translation. I don't think it will be me, though. Sorry to jump all over the Neustadt entry while you're still in the middle of upgrading it. The upgrade is badly overdue. (I used, in another life, to live not too far away so take an interest. My more usual wiki-weakness involves cars.)
Success Charles01 (talk) 11:15, 2 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Ford Escort Van

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Hi Charles! Was editing a bit and realized that there is a great scarcity of pictures of Ford Escort vans - I made a Category but haven't found many pictures that fit in it. Do you perhaps have any good shots, I am particularly looking for Mk II and Mk III Escort Vans. Cheers,  Mr.choppers | ✎  00:24, 15 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I don't have any to hand. But I'll keep an eye open. This is good (UK) Ford country, but when I've gone to old timer shows I've tended to jump on Anglia vans and overlook any (post 1968) Escort ones. I'll readjust my sensitivities for future reference, though. I guess Mk IIs and maybe Mk IIIs are plenty old enough to count as "classics" these days. It used to be >25 years old in Germany when you could register your car as an old timer and get certain tax privileges in return for certain restrictions, though I think it may have flipped up to >30 years old at some stage since then. I don't think they're so systematic in the UK. We're not so keen on rules here ... especially ones that do no obvious damage and seem to make sense.
For some years there was quite a good picture of an Escort van on the Escort entry, but it got removed. (No, it wasn't one of mine, but it was still fairly good....) I'll see if it is still to be found in Commons somewhere. If someone is going to built on (or set up as a separate entry ... whatever it is you have in mind) maybe it should be quietly returned to ... whereever. I see it's turned up in UK wiki on the Ford Union entry. Which just demonstrates that you never know what you're about to learn when you start clicking around. But now I look at the picture, I think it is probably several "marks" too modern to count as a direct answer to your request.
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Is there none! Look at this—silver paint all over the teeth, rotted out rear sub-frame (aka hip replacement needed) and Look at the licence plate—WUS. People can be so very cruel. 'bye Eddaido (talk) 11:20, 25 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I have conversations like this with my son about Volkswagen Type 2s on "lowered" suspension. (He's too young to share my attachment to Morris Minors.) Regards Charles01 (talk) 12:00, 25 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Good afternoon Charles01. Pleased with my pictures of some Dolomites I decided to renovate the article about them. I've added a section about a straight eight displayed at theMotor Show and then another larger bit of text about a road test by The Times staff. Then I put the existing text in what seemed to me a more sensible order. Because I see you made a big contribution at an early stage I thought you might like to take a look. I'm planning to add an engine infobox about the 1767cc engine. There needs to be some mention of the source of the name (Coupe des Alpes I think, or a predecessor and Cortina d'Ampezzo of the 1920s but I am a bit fuzzy about it) I gather it might be a wet day where you are or are you away, its holiday season isn't it? Best regards, Eddaido (talk) 11:02, 10 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It all seems to be melding together quite well. I think Malcolm A did quite a lot on this entry and I certainly added stuff when I came across an enthusiastic piece in an old copy of Autocar. Anyhow, it all seems to cohere so that it is not very obvious who added which bits, which is good. The other bits you plan to add are beyond my immediately accessible knowledge, but if you have dug out the sources it sounds as if there is more interesting stuff to add. There is someone (maybe several someones) on German wiki who follows the Triumph pages quit carefully in English wiki, so that if you come back in twelve months it is quite possible you will find the added pictures and added text hijacked into German which is always pleasing.
Yes, it rained today. Overall I'm told it's been a good summer. We didn't get much winter so the wasps are likely to be bad these next few weeks. And the mice are turning up in the traps in the attic which may mean they know - which I did not - that Autumn will be early this year. Usually they stay in the fields till September: but the farmers have harvested quite a lot of the wheat ahead of the latest batch of thunder storms. We're not exactly away, but we did drive over to the Netherlands to see my mother in law a couple of days ago. I need a few days to recover from the early start these days when we do that sort of thing.
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Bedford TA or TD?

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Regards,
BarnCas (talk) 09:58, 22 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Noted. Thank you much. Salutations cordiales. Charles01 (talk) 10:30, 22 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Re: Deletion proposal

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Speedy deletion nomination of Hugo Dittberner

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Triumph Mayflower: source of the original version

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I looked through the revision history to find out who introduced the Morris Minor comparison and I came up with this edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Triumph_Mayflower&diff=next&oldid=255458335

Do you know who has the source article now, and whether they would be willing to use it to repair the paragraph it references?

Sincerely, SamBlob (talk) 16:16, 5 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Ach, so it WAS me. Well I certainly would not have thrown the magazine out (and it seems vanishingly unlikely that I simply found it online). I don't know where it is, however. Time to start thinking, I guess! Regards Charles01 (talk) 16:29, 5 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I have just made this new list article. Please would you tell me about them or fix all the things I have done wrong. Thanking you in advance etc, Eddaido (talk) 21:32, 7 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Looks good to me. The numbers (and the rest) in those tables need a lot of proof reading, but nothing jumped out and triggered my incredulity. Success. Charles01 (talk) 06:32, 8 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you, the numbers and the rest are probably accurate because it was an automatic upload from Excel which spreadsheet had been checked thoroughly but . . . there's many a slip twixt cup and lip — or so I've heard. Thanks, Eddaido (talk) 06:55, 8 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]