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AUTOMAKER GREEN—AND NOT JUST MOOLA

IN SIGNIFICANT BUSINESS NEWS, General Motors recently announced that it had secured all of the renewable energy it needs to power all of its U.S. facilities by 2025, fully 25 … Continue reading

November 2, 2022 · 2 Comments

KEEP ON TRUCKIN’—WITH H2 PART 2

ENCOURAGED BY MITCHELL/BORRONI-BIRD/BURNS, yesterday we began a discussion of hydrogen-fuel-cell trucking. Today in Part 2, evidence for and against various ideas is offered. Is Blue Hydrogen Worth the Candle?  You’ll … Continue reading

November 1, 2022 · 3 Comments

KEEP ON TRUCKIN’—WITH H2 PART 1

WHEN BILL MITCHELL, LARRY BURNS, AND CHRIS BORRONI-BIRD proposed mobility for this century, they envisioned a vehicle mix with propulsion depending upon size and distance.  Based on range and infrastructural … Continue reading

October 31, 2022 · 3 Comments

WERE I TO WIN THE LOTTERY….

THE SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD IS most appropriate in this title, because I don’t ever enter lotteries. The thought of having gobs of unexpected wealth did come to mind, however, in perusing … Continue reading

October 30, 2022 · 1 Comment

“WHEN DID YOU COME TO THIS COUNTRY, DENNIS?”   PART 2

YESTERDAY, MARNIE CHESTERTON of BBC CrowdScience opened a discussion of “Why Can’t I Change my Accent?” Today in Part 2, she tells us about pitch, in more ways than one.  … Continue reading

October 29, 2022 · 1 Comment

“WHEN DID YOU COME TO THIS COUNTRY, DENNIS?”   PART 1 

IMAGINE: THERE I WAS A (likely) fourth-generation American, and a teacher asked me that question. (I had yet to appreciate sarcasm.) True, as a native-born Clevelander, I spoke a dialect … Continue reading

October 28, 2022 · 3 Comments

FROM ’AMMERSMITH TO ’ACKNEY IS A TANNER

TONY HOGG WROTE AN R&T road test of the London Bus, most appropriately in April of 1963. Curiously enough, the test took part not in London, but in San Francisco, … Continue reading

October 27, 2022 · 3 Comments

A BRIEF EXPLANATORY TOUR OF WESTMINSTER ABBEY    PART 2

YESTERDAY WE BEGAN A TOUR of Westminster Abbey, courtesy of Miranda Carter and her “Dudes in Drapes,” London Review of Books, October 6, 2022. Today in Part 2 she offers … Continue reading

October 26, 2022 · Leave a comment

A BRIEF EXPLANATORY TOUR OF WESTMINSTER ABBEY PART 1

WE ALL GOT TO SEE extensive TV coverage of the magnificent Westminster Abbey during the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. In London Review of Books, October 2, 2022, Miranda Carter … Continue reading

October 25, 2022 · 2 Comments

MGB 1800—FULL-PRESS MARKETING IN 1962

HAMBRO AUTOMOTIVE CORPORATION was the U.S. importer for MG, and in November 1962 it performed a full-press marketing of the MGB, the first revamping since this classic sports car eschewed … Continue reading

October 24, 2022 · 1 Comment