Gyuri,
Thanks for the link. As a kid, I have read the history of Zeppelins and the Hindenburg. I was amazed, and still I am. Would love to fly onto one of these, if they ever get to be made again!
By the way, regarding the Vfet amp and your withdrawal symtoms. It proves that we are hooked! 🙂
Thanks for the link. As a kid, I have read the history of Zeppelins and the Hindenburg. I was amazed, and still I am. Would love to fly onto one of these, if they ever get to be made again!
By the way, regarding the Vfet amp and your withdrawal symtoms. It proves that we are hooked! 🙂
Tragedy of Titanic and Hindenburg are more to me than simple accidents, these have symbolic meanings to me:
We and our technologies are not omnipotent.
Yes, I'm addicted with my Sony VFET amp eternally. 😉
We and our technologies are not omnipotent.
Yes, I'm addicted with my Sony VFET amp eternally. 😉
No, I didn't know that.
I knew the fact, they are manufacturing automatic transmissions for example for Peugeot. I didn't know that they have made gears for Zeppelins originally.
On their web site I found only the most common Holy Trinity:
Values-mission-vision.
I knew the fact, they are manufacturing automatic transmissions for example for Peugeot. I didn't know that they have made gears for Zeppelins originally.
On their web site I found only the most common Holy Trinity:
Values-mission-vision.
The blue Morgan 4/4 - AUY 33 - which I posted a short while ago had a 5 speed, straight (no synchromesh) ZF manual gearbox. We found it attached to a MGA twin-cam engine which was highly tuned. Back in the 60s that ZF box was found in nearly all competition cars.
Count von Zeppelin was going to demonstrate his airship to the government but it crashed just outside Friedrichhafen where it was made. The crash left the count practically penniless so the local population decided to help.
They melted down all the metal parts and turned them into cutlery which was then sold.
It eventually amounted to 6 million Reichsmark which was quite a lot and saved the airship factory from bankruptcy.
Count von Zeppelin showed his gratitude by founding the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin GmbH and handing 94% of this over to the the Zeppelin Foundation to be administered by the City of Friedrichshafen. All profits go to the city and are used to run schools, old people homes, a university, a hospital, kindergartens, emergency help to the needy and so on.
Incidentally the world's largest automotive supplier, the Robert Bosch GmbH, is also 92% owned by a charitable foundation. Other industrialists called Robert 'Red Bosch' because of his ongoing social engagement.
They melted down all the metal parts and turned them into cutlery which was then sold.
It eventually amounted to 6 million Reichsmark which was quite a lot and saved the airship factory from bankruptcy.
Count von Zeppelin showed his gratitude by founding the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin GmbH and handing 94% of this over to the the Zeppelin Foundation to be administered by the City of Friedrichshafen. All profits go to the city and are used to run schools, old people homes, a university, a hospital, kindergartens, emergency help to the needy and so on.
Incidentally the world's largest automotive supplier, the Robert Bosch GmbH, is also 92% owned by a charitable foundation. Other industrialists called Robert 'Red Bosch' because of his ongoing social engagement.
I should have said that the complete MGA Twin Cam + ZF were shoehorned into the Morgan. It took us some time and required chassis alteration and for the clutch pedal to be mounted almost vertically above the brake pedal. [The original Morgan set up when we got hold of it was a Coventry Climax engine which drove a remote Moss gearbox situated right by the driver's upper thigh!]
That was all over 50 years ago!!!😡 I would be pleased to be back in those days!😉
this is Jaccolina - worthy :
I just watched Bruce Willis off Richard Dreyfuss in "Reds" again, a genuine feel good moment.
