Fascinating Facts and Trivia

That sounds like the sort of thing I'd do! Lol. Wasn't me was it Foggy? Gulp!

(05-11-2018 22:09 )Skyline Wrote:  That sounds like the sort of thing I'd do! Lol. Wasn't me was it Foggy? Gulp!

No Skyline, your'e allright mate.
The only reason I noticed was that yesterday I think it was, I had to check if I had already posted an item (which I hadn't), and then I forgot what it was I hadn't done, if you follow me.

Don't anybody follow me, honest.
In my first few months in the army, our training unit, went on a map reading exercise.
Despite being a keen walker and cyclist, and pretty good at reading a map, I got overruled and so we got lost.
Our punishment for getting lost was bayonet cleaning, not LCpl Jones type, the shorter modern one.
First lesson I learned in life, if you know your'e right stick to your guns, and don't follow the crowd.

(05-11-2018 22:23 )Foggy Mainwaring Wrote:  First lesson I learned in life, if you know your'e right stick to your guns, and don't follow the crowd.

I followed the crowd one night heading out of town for a midweek game at villa park; and ended up being cajooled into the NIA to watch a Justin Bieber concert...!! Scary...!!!!

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I remember years back when I lived in a cul-de-sac- not far from the Molineux, and I was driving home on an extremely foggy night.
So foggy, I could just make out the turn from the main road into our cul-de-sac.
I noticed a car had been following me for a while, and when I stopped outside my house, this car stopped, driver looked at me, and then turned round and drove away.
Obviously been following my lights.

Late night fact from QI
Vikings would be buried with board games to combat boredom in the afterlife! How LUDOcrous!

Lawrence of Arabia once lived and worked in Wolverhampton, under his RAF name T.E. Shaw.

The reason was that the RAF were in desperate need of high speed marine rescue boats to rescue downed airmen.
Henry Meadows Ltd, which were based on the Cannock Road in Wolverhampton, were by the early 1930s, renowned for producing record-breaking marine engines.
T. E. Shaw worked at Meadows factory alongside Henry Meadows in designing engines to meet the RAFs reqirements.
Shaw lived at Meadows home in Copthorne Road,Wolverhampton, whilst on this work.

In them days, blokes like Meadows were very much hands on engineers.
My dad worked at Guy Motors, which lay at the back of Meadows factory, and he told me that Sydney Guy, could strip and re-assemble an engine, as good as anybody else.
I'd like to see the bean counters that manage our engineering industries nowadays do that.
Stop here Foggy, before a rant develops.

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The cable that Jaws bites through in 'Moonraker' was made of intertwined strands of liqurorice.
The 'Jaws' teeth that were worn by Richard Kiel as Jaws made him choke so he could only keep them in for a short time.

Roger Moore narrowly escaped death when filming a scene with Curt Jurgens in 'The Spy Who Loved Me' A charge that had been laid near him went off too early and he dived for cover-(the one when Stromberg shoots at him under his table through a long tube)

'For Your Eyes Only' to 'A View To A Kill' featured The Girls as a separate credit and the most number of Page 3 girls to appear in these films-the list of which are elsewhere on this thread.

The car used in 'The Spy Who Loved Me', the Lotus Esprit had been deliberately left outside the studio lot so the producers could see it and might use it as Bond's car-it worked it was in that film and Moonraker-Bond's second red Lotus is seen twice, once in the Alps and the other being blown as it is booby-trapped by Bond.

For the sequence of the car underwater several models were made, one was a remote control sort, the other was just a large fibre-glass hull.

Goldfinger made several errors. First one was inside Fort Knox showing a huge stack of gold but because of the weight of gold it would be impossible to stack it as high that. Secondly, Goldfinger is sucked out of an aircraft window when it is shot at and breaks. This does not happen normally, the forces needed for that would have to be much stronger. 'Oddjob' was played by an American weightlifter and wrestler Harold Sakata. He had won a silver medal for the USA at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London in weightlifting.

The henchman who fights Connery's Bond in 'You Only Live Twice' is related to ex-wrestler and US film star Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson.(This was revealed last year on The Graham Norton Show)

Gert Frobe (Goldfinger)'s English wasn't good so his voice was dubbed. Several women in the Bond films were also dubbed by Nikki van Zyl. Incidentally Gert Frobe was also the Baron Bombast in the children's adventure film 'Chitty, Chitty, Bang, Bang' and most of the Bond people also worked on that-written by Bond writer Ian Fleming for his son.

Pierce Brosnan should have played Bond years before(Timothy Dalton took his place) but because of the success of Remington Steele, the detective series, the producers wouldn't release him and so he had to wait right up 1995 to make his awaited debut in 'Goldeneye'

More coming soon-I know you can wait a bit

(06-11-2018 19:35 )Foggy Mainwaring Wrote:  In them days, blokes like Meadows were very much hands on engineers.

That reminds me of one famous scene in the classic Dambusters movie, where Mitchell is trying to get a loan of A Lancaster bomber to test out his bouncing bombs. The guy asks him why on earth the RAF would lend him one right in the middle of a war where they are needed so badly...

He replies "You could try telling them that I designed the Lancaster for them?"
(or words to that effect)

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Thees a bit mixed up there Kelly.
The Lancaster was designed by A V Roe, hence the company name AVRO, Roe also led the design team on the Vulcan.

Reginald Mitchell designed the Spitfire.
He couldn't have been in the film as he died in 1937.

Barnes-Wallis who designed the bouncing bomb as per the Dambusters, also designed the geodetic airframe structure, as most famously used in twin engined Wellington bomber, but that plane was not used in the Dambuster raids.

By the way, a lot of people often think the Lanc was the RAF's first four engined bomber, but it was actually the Short Stirling, which wasn't really powerful enough to perform the sort of duties the Lanc performed.

Sir Nigel Gresley of steam locomotive fame, was a keen breeder of water fowl.
Hence the reason some of his A4 locomotives bear names linked to water fowl and other bird species.
The most famous being 4468 Mallard, the fastest steam locomotive ever.

Gresley also designed the A3 Pacifics, of which "Flying Scotsman", (4472), was the first steam locomotive to be officially recognized as reaching 100 mph.