Extending the lives of army Land Rovers

Looks nice :)

I like pic number 2 - thats had a hard life.

Does anyone have his own website? Would be handy to have for next time something breaks....

Yep it was in the "related links" section on the right-hand side of the screen;

well I would never have thunk it. I have driven up that area which is the arse end of nowhere (was "testing" the d2 in the deep snow a couple of years ago), and I have a clinic in Louth and Horncastle, but have never heard of this guy or his business. The article makes him sound rather big headed.

It's a puff-piece, he's got the opportunity to plug his company on the BBC news website so he'll naturally say he's the best, I'd do the same. I of course am the best ;-)

Damned good article that. A manifesto for spares operations ! Steve

The most emailed article on the beeb website and the 5th most read at the time of posting this according to their little chart applet on the right of the page, not sure why but there you go! It's also on the front page of the website. Someone's smiling on Peter Hobson today.

In article , William Black writes

Didn't the US military have a $400 hammer?

Regards,

Simonm.

They may well have.

I have an eleven year old Defender 90 with a 300 series engine and it's worth about £5,000

If the engine is worth £7,000 that means I'll have to pay someone £2,000 to take the rest of it away...

I'd imagine that for the £7,000 they won't get a lump ripped out of a wreck and flung on a palette, ISTR that £7,000 was the price for it new, so there would have to be something else besides just re-manufacturing it to make it worth getting theirs over a new lump.

I have a suspicion that he's just quoting the new price in a desperate effort to sound important.

It's like the 'I don't deal with the public' routine.

If someone turned up at his gate with a wad of twenties and said 'Please can I buy a Land River mate" he'd deal alright...