A very strange place

[rodp]

Umm, Rodp this now gets interesting. Formula 1 lifestyle, where did the funding come from i wonder. Was there a suitable profit margin in the business to fund this lifestyle if not whom were connected. Are there in fact connections here hidden by precedents that were/was never ever exposed to inspection. The interesting thing may well be, was the man and his team successful and whom were the 'sponsors', in a different light.

I don't think it was formula 1, was it even invented in the fifties? There's mention of him being left behind by Stirling Moss so he was certainly playing with the big boys, he also rallied around the globe. I remember one of the car number plates (metal in those days) being for the Monte Carlo. However, or whoever, financed him certainly didn't do it from pocket money. I believe he was a sought after driver though, so must have been good.

[rodp]

It seems he was born to a "reasonably comfortable lifestyle" during the first world war. Also no mention of him doing anything such as service in the second world war. reading between the lines it appears his family were reasonably well off and he escaped being called up. That's just from a brief search though so don't want to do the bloke down for no reason.

[pickle]

Sounds like I'm trying too hard here and perhaps there was just a straight forward 'haunting' in your workplace premises. William Woollard did an interesting take (BBC i think) on the supposed supernatural, definitive programme, and not equalled since in my estimation, long time ago now, and he did not dismiss the evidence of people who came forward with their encounters - too many of them. Have been that place a few times and it is a sobering experience. Just as long as you can exclude all human intervention at that time and you are confident in the circumstances then it becomes a reality.. No way of proving it of course. Alternatively given the era there could be another more rational more diabolical explanation that defies belief. Alf.

[rodp]

Oh believe me we tried to blame it on everything rather than admit what really happened, but how can you explain someone being dragged from under a truck when another bloke was standing in front of the only entrance unlocked ( from the inside).

What's the other explanation Alf?

[pickle]

Have been reading about Ken Wharton and he is undoubtedly one of the unsung heroes of his time. Wharton died an untimely death racing in New Zealand among some of the greats - Jack Brabham for one. I start to see a man unfulfilled with tremendous drive and enthusiasm not to mention engineering skill who was meant to be one of the greats, possibly of all time. My take now is that there was nothing untoward in your workplace other than the spirit of a man whom came home. The energy of this man must have been tremendous - all consuming and my guess is he never let go - he never really left your workplace. And you took some of it apart piecemeal, and I'm not sure he understood quite what you were doing to his man cave as it were. My guess is he did not approve and you chaps pissed him off. I have never seen an area so steeped in history in all my life - there is so much to learn about the development of industry and technology just there around where you worked. Of course we are talking a different era, aspirations of life and legend. Smethwick was an absolute cauldron, as was the whole area - a bleddy dynamo, part of an English powerhouse. Whoa. Thank you for passing it on Rodders. Not sure Ken Wharton appreciated your trucks in his garage. Trusting you may understand my passion. Alf.

[hairyyoda]

Have just woken up in a cold sweat don't really know if I was having a nightmare but I could see a Ouija board and three letters floating around the room, "spooky" think that there was a "f" a "l" and a "a" and a strange savoury smell wafting about the room ??? What does this all mean ? who might be out there ???
Panic over just worked it out my newest best'est best friend Springy "Zebedee" Onion is better known in a previous life as "Alf"
Phil

[Radagast]

Alien Life Form?

[pickle]

This one is for you Phil. Once upon a time five people sat around a table in a little room situated in a hospital annex. On the table was a Ouija board that belonged to one of the ladies present. They were bored, so they had a giggle with the glass in the middle but nothing happened. By and by they kept trying to resurrect - they knew not what or whom but it was a bit of fun, that was until the glass moved. Every one there felt it move. Three of the ladies got up and left the room. The board was left where it was and the glass put back on the sink. The incident was never mentioned again and the board was thrown away. The moral of the story is - if you work in a coal mine you get dirty.

[rodp]

This one is for you Phil. Once upon a time five people sat around a table in a little room situated in a hospital annex. On the table was a Ouija board that belonged to one of the ladies present. They were bored, so they had a giggle with the glass in the middle but nothing happened. By and by they kept trying to resurrect - they knew not what or whom but it was a bit of fun, that was until the glass moved. Every one there felt it move. Three of the ladies got up and left the room. The board was left where it was and the glass put back on the sink. The incident was never mentioned again and the board was thrown away. The moral of the story is - if you work in a coal mine you get dirty.

One of my rules of life Alf has always been "never ever mess with a ouija board" !! Too many folk freaked out with those things and mentally wrecked for life.
Another has been to never take any non prescribed drug

[rodp]

Another was to try and grow old sensibly, I failed miserably at that one