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Electric vehicle census article

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Extract from a leading publication:


"A census of all types of commercial motor vehicle in use in Great Britain shows only 693 electrically propelled.

More text about weight of vehicles too long to type out here


It would appear that charging difficulties constitute the principal factor which has deterred potential users from purchasing this type of vehicle. This difficulty, however, is readily overcome by anyone owning a fleet of electric vehicles installing his own charging set in the absence of sufficient encouragement from the local electricity supply company."


It looks as if the provision of charge points is not a recent obstacle............


Any guesses as to the exact date of this prophetic article?


A prize you ask? Having gone through my test kit this weekend, I must have thought I hadn't got something to check compliance with 643.9 on several/many occasions over the decades, so have several spare ones with R Y B leads.......... 


Regards


BOD/BID/BED


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    Which one of you just bought the 1980's Bedford CF electric van that has just been sold on Ebay?


    Forty years ago I had an ex-BT yellow livery Bedford CF van, with a petrol engine, that had its bodywork resprayed blue with the doors closed, the least said about that the better!
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    Well, the VCC goes up to 1919 and the VSCC takes over from then, so it must be 1919.


    I was referring to the name change from Vintage to Veteran in VSCC Chris.............


    Regards


    BOD
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    perspicacious:
    Well, the VCC goes up to 1919 and the VSCC takes over from then, so it must be 1919.


    I was referring to the name change from Vintage to Veteran in VSCC Chris.............


    Precisely. the Veteran CC accepts cars up to 1919. The Vintage Sports CC doesn't really have a starting date. Cars built before 1 Jan 1919 are classified as "Edwardian" which is odd because he died in 1910. ?


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    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vintage_Sports-Car_Club

    The VSCC was known initially as the Veteran Sports-Car Club, but within a month, by November 1934, was known as The Vintage Sports-Car Club, to avoid confusion with the Veteran Car Club of Great Britain.


    I know, I shouldn't believe everything on WP Chris! I did send them a £10 last year though.


    Yes. I am tired today, curse of insomnia. Must be my guilty past catching up with my conscience!


    Regards


    BED


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    perspicacious:
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vintage_Sports-Car_Club

    The VSCC was known initially as the Veteran Sports-Car Club, but within a month, by November 1934, was known as The Vintage Sports-Car Club, to avoid confusion with the Veteran Car Club of Great Britain.


    I know, I shouldn't believe everything on WP Chris! I did send them a £10 last year though.




    I see what you mean, so the answer must be Oct '34.


    You needn't worry about Wikipedia, the history is here.


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    My Daihatsu Hijet pickup (aka Piaggio Porter) passes one of the criteria for being a Classic by virtue of its age, but probably fails miserably on the valuation criteria.

     

    TYPICALLY, HOW OLD IS A CLASSIC CAR? 



    The age of classic cars can vary considerably, and there are several definitions regarding how old a car must be before it becomes a classic.  



    HMRC defines classics as being over 15 years old with a list price of at least £15,000, but to be tax exempt, the classic must be at least 40 years old. The Antique Automobile Club of America notes classics must be older than 25 years (with cars over 45 years old known as antiques), whereas insurance providers have a wide range of classifications.  



    As such, answering how hold classic cars are is an imperfect art, although generally, a classic can be any age as long as it’s older than the majority of cars on the road, was built after 1946 (prior to that, a car is in vintage territory), is no longer in production and has been deemed a classic by the motoring community. 

    https://www.total.co.uk/when-does-car-become-classic


    You can buy the Piaggio pickups new as electric vehicles, the range is only about fifteen miles, but you can have a spare battery to swap the flat one out whilst it’s recharging.


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    Mrs P's M-B SLK was accepted as a "modern classic" by my insurers at, IIRC, 10 years old.


    Valuation is irrelevant. Is a "barn find" (like your Bedford van) not classic until it has been restored?


    MSUK's classification:

    Historic Vehicles – Cars which are either original competition cars or cars built to exactly the same specification as models with national or international competition history complying with the rules of the period.

    A1 – (Veteran) Cars of a specification valid before 1 Jan 1905.

    B1 – (Edwardian) Cars of a specification valid between 1 Jan 1905 and 31 Dec 1918.

    C1 – (Vintage) Cars of a specification valid between 1 Jan 1919 and 31 Dec 1930.

    D1 – (Post Vintage Thoroughbred) Cars of a specification valid between 1 Jan 1931 and 31 Dec 1946.

    E1 – Cars of a specification valid between 1 Jan 1947 and 31 Dec 1961 (up to 31 Dec 1960 for single seater and two seater racing cars).

    F1 – Cars of a specification valid between 1 Jan 1962 and 31 Dec 1965 (from 1 Jan 1961 for single seater and two seater racing cars and up to 31 Dec 1966 for Formula 2).

    G1 – Cars of a specification valid between 1 Jan 1966 (1 Jan 1964 for Formula 3) and 31 Dec 1971

    H1 – Cars of a specification valid between 1 Jan 1972 and 31 Dec 1976
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    Can we use the same classification coding for consumer units and fuse boards when preparing an EICR?


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    CSparkingchip:

    Can we use the same classification coding for consumer units and fuse boards when preparing an EICR?


      




    When talking to customers I quite often point out that their fuse board is the same age as a Morris Minor or a Ford Anglia and whilst you can use those cars safely you would not put a caravan behind one to tow it to Cornwall at 50 mph to go on holiday.


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    Sparkingchip:

    When talking to customers I quite often point out that their fuse board is the same age as a Morris Minor or a Ford Anglia and whilst you can use those cars safely you would not put a caravan behind one to tow it to Cornwall at 50 mph to go on holiday.


    I don't think that anybody would ever have used one of those to tow a caravan. (Father had one of the latter RRG 677.)


    Don't forget that that was the era of Apollo and Concord(e).


    It seems remarkable to me that manned space flight and v. fast travel have stagnated. That said, long-, or even short-distance video conferencing has, perhaps, made the latter unimportant.


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