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Re: OT: driving licences

From Paul <nospam@needed.invalid>
Newsgroups alt.comp.os.windows-10
Subject Re: OT: driving licences
Date 2025-11-26 13:37 -0500
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On Wed, 11/26/2025 7:14 AM, Daniel70 wrote:
> On 26/11/2025 10:35 pm, Paul wrote:
>> On Wed, 11/26/2025 4:51 AM, Daniel70 wrote:
>>> On 26/11/2025 12:22 am, Paul wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 11/25/2025 2:36 AM, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>>>>> On 2025-10-08 13:16, Daniel70 wrote:
>>>>>> On 8/10/2025 8:14 pm, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>>>
>>> <Snip>
>>>
>>>>>>> A relatively recent modification is that there is an specific
>>>>>>> license for automated shift cars. But a person with such a
>>>>>>> license is forbidden from driving a standard sift/gear car.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Similarly, here in Victoria, if you take your TEST in an
>>>>>> Automatic car, you are licenced to drive an Automatic car .... at
>>>>>> least initially.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Our licences are for Ten years. I think, at the end of that ten
>>>>>> years, you are deemed to be competent to drive either a Manual or
>>>>>> Automatic car, so can drive either.
>>>>>
>>>>> They expect you to magically learn? :-)
>>>>
>>>> I learned how to drive a standard, while driving a tractor and wagon
>>>> train at work.
>>>
>>> Oww! Were you a Wagon Train Boss, Paul?? Wagons HOOOOOOO!! ;-P
>>>
>>>> One of my summer jobs. Most of my work was "lifting stuff", and only
>>>> a couple times per shift, did the tractor need to be moved from A to
>>>> B.
>>
>> This is the scale of the carts in my train. Up to six of these.
>>
>>     https://objects.lib.uidaho.edu/riegger/riegger171.jpg
>>
>> Look in the lower right corner of the picture for the cart.
>>
>> The cart is likely to be that high, so as to match the floor
>> level of the train car it pulls up beside. There should be a tongue
>> on one end of the cart, that fastens to a coupler on the
>> other end of the cart. When the tongue is in the upright position,
>> it can be applying friction brakes to the front two wheels. That helps
>> prevent your train from rolling away, when you disconnect the tractor
>> from the front tongue.
>>
>> And rolling stock like that, is as old as the hills, and
>> Adam and Eve used to haul those around. But good solid construction.
>> You don't have to worry about it falling apart.
>>
>>     Paul
>>
> Is that you standing by the Cart, Paul, or are you sitting in the shade under the tree?? ;-P

One of the guys used to dress like that. With the coveralls.

And no, it wasn't really a "sunlit" kind of job. There
wasn't a lot of goofing off.

It's sunlit now, as they dropped a significant part of the buildings
with dynamite years ago.

It's funny how sites like this can exist, and later ? There seem
to be no good pictures.

   Paul

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                Re: Browse at the speed of thought Daniel70 <daniel47@somewhere.someplaceelse> - 2025-08-17 22:57 +1000
                Re: Browse at the speed of thought "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-08-17 15:49 +0100
                Re: Browse at the speed of thought Daniel70 <daniel47@somewhere.someplaceelse> - 2025-08-18 21:30 +1000
                Re: Browse at the speed of thought "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-08-18 12:54 +0100
                Re: Browse at the speed of thought Daniel70 <daniel47@somewhere.someplaceelse> - 2025-08-18 23:00 +1000
                Re: Browse at the speed of thought "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-08-17 15:37 +0100
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                Re: Browse at the speed of thought Daniel70 <daniel47@somewhere.someplaceelse> - 2025-08-18 23:10 +1000
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                Re: OT: driving licences Daniel70 <daniel47@somewhere.someplaceelse> - 2025-08-19 00:38 +1000
                Re: OT: driving licences Peter Johnson <peter@parksidewood.nospam> - 2025-08-18 16:55 +0100
                Re: OT: driving licences The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> - 2025-10-06 11:58 -0700
                Re: OT: driving licences Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> - 2025-10-07 22:10 +1100
                Re: OT: driving licences "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-10-07 14:36 +0200
                Re: OT: driving licences Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> - 2025-10-08 00:00 +1100
                Re: OT: driving licences Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2025-10-07 16:15 +0000
                Re: OT: driving licences "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-10-08 11:14 +0200
                Re: OT: driving licences Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> - 2025-10-08 22:16 +1100
                Re: OT: driving licences "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-25 08:36 +0100
                Re: OT: driving licences Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> - 2025-11-25 21:56 +1100
                Re: OT: driving licences "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-25 12:41 +0100
                Re: OT: driving licences Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> - 2025-11-25 23:04 +1100
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                Re: OT: driving licences Tim Slattery <TimSlattery@utexas.edu> - 2025-11-25 10:47 -0500
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                Re: OT: driving licences Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-11-25 08:22 -0500
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