The 36' Springer was the canal version of a "Morris Minor". Accordingly, it was entirely fitting that her 'ship's whistle' came from a 1966 Morris Minor discovered in White's Breaker's Yard on the A45 near Coventry.
The "Wind-Tone" was refurbished in Rugby and 'field tested' at Hillmorton top lock where, in calm conditions, it was heard clearly on Badsey's lawn half a mile away.
Autolec had also sourced Pentargon's digital voltmeters (2019-01-14 09.11.36) which to this day read 'working' line voltages. Pentargon has a bank of sockets supplied by Maplin into which were plugged all the electronic kit normally used in the [then] support vehicle i.e. GPS, phone charger, USB slots. Maplin and Autolec are both gone where all good trade shops went and UK is worse for it.
Think of Pentargon as a pleased-as-punch '60s Morris Minor tootling up the recently-opened Rugby to Leeds section of the M1, picnic hamper in the boot, AA badge on the front and a nuclear family on board.
They were driving to freedom in 1967.
In 2012, I was driving to freedom, sailing away to a timeless future on a 1973 boat with a 1967 engine, a floating Morris Minor enabled by Samuel Springer, a forgotten fabricator working out of a small workshop in Mill Hill Lane Market Harborough
The "Wind-Tone" was refurbished in Rugby and 'field tested' at Hillmorton top lock where, in calm conditions, it was heard clearly on Badsey's lawn half a mile away.
Autolec had also sourced Pentargon's digital voltmeters (2019-01-14 09.11.36) which to this day read 'working' line voltages. Pentargon has a bank of sockets supplied by Maplin into which were plugged all the electronic kit normally used in the [then] support vehicle i.e. GPS, phone charger, USB slots. Maplin and Autolec are both gone where all good trade shops went and UK is worse for it.
Think of Pentargon as a pleased-as-punch '60s Morris Minor tootling up the recently-opened Rugby to Leeds section of the M1, picnic hamper in the boot, AA badge on the front and a nuclear family on board.
They were driving to freedom in 1967.
In 2012, I was driving to freedom, sailing away to a timeless future on a 1973 boat with a 1967 engine, a floating Morris Minor enabled by Samuel Springer, a forgotten fabricator working out of a small workshop in Mill Hill Lane Market Harborough
