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Rabbit B
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Cowley to Coventry is 61 miles .............3 days ?  Had they lost the ignition key ? Rog, Nice colouring , I won't bother finishing mine , all that cutting in around the letters. Jim
Oh Jim,
You must be young if you don't remember the state of the roads and the slow speeds that these old vehicles travelled at. Add that to the slower pace of life and 3 days is not excessive.
They would have had to load up in Cowley, unload in Coventry, and probably stay over night as well. Engines had to be run in, in those days! That meant going slowly.
Different engines had different recommended speeds for 'running in' as well. This was one of the first delivery, so this engine would have needed running in! That meant slow speed until it was run in properly!
After WW2 It used to take our family all day to get to Cornwall from Windsor, in a 1937 Wolseley Hornet! On run in engines!
I still had to run in my new cars in the 70’s, 30mph was all it allowed, with short burst to 40mph. 50mph, on a long run. Once you had run in the engine, you could go at cruising speed! It was all in the handbooks of the day.
Modern cars and lorries don't need any of this of course, but I learned from my Father who was an engineer, how important it was to the life of the engine to do this properly. He was very particular about his cars, had a new one every 2 years.
Rabbit B 
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Rabbit B
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Today , it would be go there , come back and have breakfast before the next trip. Jim
Hi Jim,
You youngsters don't understand what it was like before the advent of motorways. The journey from Windsor to Cornwall had nothing to to with the roads down there as you put it!
Most of the problems were just the road between. From there to Porlock, was not too bad, but with 4 people in the car the second time we did it, just before we got to Porlock the front of the car started to judder! Wobbled about all over the road! It was pouring with rain, so Dad went slower, we still had to manage Porlock Hill.
You don't know what living is unless you have been up that bypass in a car with dodgy steering! The rain was coming through the roof, the wind was blowing hard and the sea was lashing the cliffs, it was a very long drop! No fence! Sheer cliff the other side!
Mother said all we need now is a 'mountain goat'! We turned the next bend and there was the biggest ram you ever saw, curly horns and wild looking, bang in the middle of the road going baaaa! At that point my Sister who was bawling, had hysterics!
Yep! we did get there eventually, hours later, but that's dodgy motoring for you! Then we had no car for the rest of the holiday, so we walked everywhere while the garage fixed it!
3 days is nothing! My uncle and family in an Austin 7, brakes failed, shouted 'goodbyeeee' as they went down the hill and finished up in a pile of sand which they had put there for the purpose! Uncle got down all the hills like that!
China and PaulaToo have got it right! You haven't lived lad!  Those were the days! That's motoring! Must be why they brought in the MOT.
Rabbit B
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