Skip Kelsey wrote:
>
> Hi Geoff:
> Regarding rain in the hanger. At the former Naval Air Station at Moffett
> Field calif. I have seen it cloud tp and rain in the dirigable hanger. #1.
> This was built in the early thirties, to house the "Los Angeles". Which was
> lost in a storm some time later. As far as the Lucas thing. This is the
> first Ive heard of it. I thought that Marelli and some other outfit took
> them over some time ago.
> Cheers:
> Skip KelseyAt 04:18 PM 4/19/97 -0400, The English Connection wrote:
> >Bud Krueger wrote:
> >>
> >> Leckstein wrote:
> >> >
> >> > At 11:48 PM 4/18/97 +0000, Scott Gardner wrote:
> >>
> >> Same thing at the South Weymouth, Mass. NAS Blimp Hanger.
> >
> >And yet again at the Cardington airship hangers in Bedfordshire, (not far
> from the LBC
> >site) (See this location for pictures:-
> >
> > http://www.bre.co.uk/bre/press/civictrust/card_ton2.htm).
> >
> >These sheds were large enough for a famous glider pilot, Mr. Philip Wills,
> in the mid
> >30s. to use them as a source of slope soaring lift when trying to fly
> X-country!
> >
> >I have been expecting some reaction to my posting a few days ago of a
> press release
> >concerning the take over of Joseph Lucas, and the impending change of name
> the new
> >owners are contemplating. I have been struggling with this all electric
> computer thingy
> >now for 6 months, and thought I had it reasonably under control, but in
> view of the
> >total silence on the subject I am wondering if it actually got onto the
> list. I know it
> >is not made by Lucas. It should have worked. Has anybody "out there" seen it?
> >
> >Geoff Love.
> >
> >Geoff Love.
> >
> >UK Sunday Times reported two weeks ago that last Tuesday was to be the
last time the name 'Lucas' appeared in the year end results.
Lucas-Varity will phase out the name altogether over the next twelve
months. Something to do with Lucas being known as the 'prince of
darkness' in the USA. Surely not.
PaulH.
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