User talk:Red Sunset

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Thankyou Guinnog. Haven't got my head round it all yet but am working on it!

Is it true, all towns have a war-memorial? --Red Sunset 20:06, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

All towns have a town hall, a population of 1000 to 5000, its own administration, they usually have a church. I am not sure about war-memorials. See the WP village page. Snowman 18:27, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire 346 transmission

The note you added was in a paragraph specific to the Limousine version. Did you mean this? There already was a reference to the manual gearbox in the preceding paragraph. I am not sure what options there were for the transmission on the Limousine, the only reference I can lay my hands on at present only refers to a preselector. I am not saying you are not correct, basically I don't know. Malcolma 20:13, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, I misread your note and having looked again I see what you said. As I mentioned I did not realise that the Limousine could have a manual box. Thanks for the clarification. Malcolma 21:32, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Eastriggs

I'm not fully certain at present. Eastriggs and Gretna appear to have similar histories.

The wikipedia article states that Gretna was created by the Ministry of Munitions but the one for Eastriggs only mentioned expansion, so I modified it by inserting Township.

The part-histories I have seen of H.M. Factory, Gretna, state that two complete new Townships were created for the factory. They are named as Gretna and Eastriggs. The chosen site for the factory, approximately 9 miles by 1 mile, in 1915, before the factory was designed, was described as partly agricultural, partly waste marshy land and half a dozen farm houses representing all existing buildings. [Ministry of Munitions of War, 1918] Note: on the modern OS Explorer Map 323, that represents the ‘’Depot’’ at Eastriggs, the MoD sites at Smalmstown and Mossband and most of the land south of the B721/Gretna, between Eastriggs depot and the West Coast main line

The two Townships were sold off in the 1920s by the ministry complete with bakeries and laundries. Stratton and Trinder give the date of the sale as July 1924. They use the term two new settlements at Eastriggs and Gretna, which is a bit more vague.

The creation of the factory and its sale, including the two townships, was mentioned on last week’s OU’s Coast shown on BBC2; Mark Horton was shown walking around Eastriggs with the 1924 Sale Catalogue. Whom ever did the wikipedia article on Gretna (I only copyedited it and dabbed some links) seems to have been aware of the OU’s Coast programme.

The wikipedia article on Eastriggs on the church mentions a consecration date which ties in with the construction of the factory and a Royal visit in 1917, which I linked to the Royal visit to the factory in 1917.

I don’t have definite information on Eastriggs prior to WW I, the place to look would be the New Statistical Account for Scotland (published between 1834 and 1845) or the Third Statistical Account for Scotland (published 1944 onwards) which should be in the local county library. The first edition of the Ordnance Survey of Scotland has been reprinted, so that may help as well. At present I don’t have access to any of these sources.

By all means change the article if you are sure that I am wrong, likewise I will change it at a future date if I find out that I was wrong. I will do more research but it will be after ChristmasPyrotec 13:04, 19 November 2006 (UTC)


Thanks for the comprehensive reply Pyrotec.--Red Sunset 22:10, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Formula 1/Formula One

No worries! Thanks for your contributions. 4u1e

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