Happy New Year and welcome back!
The internal combustion engine was one of the 19th century’s most propelling inventions. With this one invention we have been able to run generators to build great structures, power chainsaws to clear land for farming and provide timber for a paper industry fed by a hunger for books and learning materials, to enable heavier than air flight to take us around the globe to new countries and to fight wars. Transportation was reformed and new markets created as large vehicles could now transport vast amounts and variety of goods long distances. Perishable foods could be refrigerated and as cities grew larger allowing people to live far away from where their food was sourced.
In 1884 British engineer Edward Butler constructed the first petrol (gasoline) internal combustion engine.Butler
Soon vehicles were developed for personal transport as costs came down. Most cars were petrol vehicles (and most of them a Ford in the early days as Henry’s mass production had made a car affordable for the world). It seemed diesels were destined for the trucking and heavy machinery. In the 20th century with the Europeans led the way in bringing diesels into the passenger car market due to high petrol costs and great fuel efficiency. InAustralia the V8s ruled until the 1980s and 90s when Toyota
With these advancements come misfortune as those accustomed to filling their tanks with unleaded petrol filled their shiny new diesels with unleaded which led to expensive repair costs. This wouldn’t happen to any of our members however as a service to members, I thought New Year might be a good time for a reminder – and for those wishing to take a further step and prevent this happening (or happening again). Ian Scrimshaw sent me this link http://www.raa.com.au/shop_products.asp?SecID=56&SCatID=159&CatID=158 where you can buy a device that will prevent one putting the wrong pump nozzle and fuel into one’s car.
In cricket news, Darlington made 2/246 (opening stand of 114 off 19 overs)France
The following match saw Darlington make 220 (all out)Duncan
In a nail biter - For Darlington against the Cavallaro XI, Lindsay Earnshaw notched up 55no, James Miller 47no, Ben Harvey 27no. Rob Zardins was true to recent form for the season with 3/40, Lindsay Earnshaw 1/6, Terry Giles 1/9, and James Miller and Peter Jones both 1/13 off their 4 overs.
The match ended in a tie on 218 –Darlington 9 for 218 and the opposition all out for 218.
In our match against the Umpires, the Umpires batted first and were all out for 178. Al Mallaby got a 3 fa with 3/40 (3 overs), Stewie Aldred 2/1 (2 overs) and Andy Cassell 2/18 (4 overs) and Giles snr again featuring with 2/23 (4 overs) -a very good bowling performance all round. In reply Dalington made the target for the fall of only 2 wickets. noted batsmen were Nigel Harding 51no, Stewie Aldred 38no and Mark Lucas with a handy 30.Lucas 30.
The internal combustion engine was one of the 19th century’s most propelling inventions. With this one invention we have been able to run generators to build great structures, power chainsaws to clear land for farming and provide timber for a paper industry fed by a hunger for books and learning materials, to enable heavier than air flight to take us around the globe to new countries and to fight wars. Transportation was reformed and new markets created as large vehicles could now transport vast amounts and variety of goods long distances. Perishable foods could be refrigerated and as cities grew larger allowing people to live far away from where their food was sourced.
In 1884 British engineer Edward Butler constructed the first petrol (gasoline) internal combustion engine.
Soon vehicles were developed for personal transport as costs came down. Most cars were petrol vehicles (and most of them a Ford in the early days as Henry’s mass production had made a car affordable for the world). It seemed diesels were destined for the trucking and heavy machinery. In the 20th century with the Europeans led the way in bringing diesels into the passenger car market due to high petrol costs and great fuel efficiency. In
With these advancements come misfortune as those accustomed to filling their tanks with unleaded petrol filled their shiny new diesels with unleaded which led to expensive repair costs. This wouldn’t happen to any of our members however as a service to members, I thought New Year might be a good time for a reminder – and for those wishing to take a further step and prevent this happening (or happening again). Ian Scrimshaw sent me this link http://www.raa.com.au/shop_products.asp?SecID=56&SCatID=159&CatID=158 where you can buy a device that will prevent one putting the wrong pump nozzle and fuel into one’s car.
In cricket news, Darlington made 2/246 (opening stand of 114 off 19 overs)
The following match saw Darlington make 220 (all out)
In a nail biter - For Darlington against the Cavallaro XI, Lindsay Earnshaw notched up 55no, James Miller 47no, Ben Harvey 27no. Rob Zardins was true to recent form for the season with 3/40, Lindsay Earnshaw 1/6, Terry Giles 1/9, and James Miller and Peter Jones both 1/13 off their 4 overs.
The match ended in a tie on 218 –
In a match where both sides were short on players, (DSCC v North BeachCC)
Darlington batted first batted first making 5/291 with Stewie Aldred 55 no, Ben Harvey 54no, Peter Jones 48 and Matt Ellis 47.
Nigel Harding played for the opposition with 0/50 (off 5 overs) - Hmmm FOOS?
Northbeach were dispatched for 188 with Nigel Harding 62no clawing back his conceded 50 runs from his bowling to leave himself with 18 in positive territory!! (NBCC's best batsmen got 23) - You must have been fined for the Nige....Other notables were Matt Reese 4/46 (3.1 overs) Duncan Ward 2/31 (5) Darren Walsh (first game for the club this season) 1/10 (3) Peter Jones 1/17 (5).
A highlight of the game was the NBCC captain absolutely belting a leg side full toss from Matt Reese (one of many...when they actually made it on to the pitch) straight at Stewie Aldred at square leg who all he could do was try and get his damaged hand behind his good one before the ball struck (and stuck). Matt bowled 7 no balls in his second over (because they didn't make it onto the pitch for most of them i.e. none because he stepped over the bowling crease) - he also got two wickets so plus the two free balls it was a 15 ball over (2/20 off just that one over)!
Music trivia this month…..This icon of Australian music changed his name and took his names from 2 of his music idols – his first name from one of the Rolling Stones and his second name from an artist who played in the 60’s band Cream. Most popular from 1974 to 1982, his songs are legendary and cut his teeth on theSydney
And from last edition…Released in 1976, this album is regarded as one of the popular musical benchmarks of all time. This artist was already a household name and a consummate music innovator. So confident of the albums success, this artist asked for an up front payment of a record 13 million dollars. That’s a lot of dough now - imagine what that was worth in '76! The record producer of the day said it felt like the biggest gamble of his career but one that only lasted a week as the album went to number one a week after its release and stayed there for 14 weeks in a row. It stayed in the charts for 44 weeks in theUSA and over a year in the UK
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A highlight of the game was the NBCC captain absolutely belting a leg side full toss from Matt Reese (one of many...when they actually made it on to the pitch) straight at Stewie Aldred at square leg who all he could do was try and get his damaged hand behind his good one before the ball struck (and stuck). Matt bowled 7 no balls in his second over (because they didn't make it onto the pitch for most of them i.e. none because he stepped over the bowling crease) - he also got two wickets so plus the two free balls it was a 15 ball over (2/20 off just that one over)!
Music trivia this month…..This icon of Australian music changed his name and took his names from 2 of his music idols – his first name from one of the Rolling Stones and his second name from an artist who played in the 60’s band Cream. Most popular from 1974 to 1982, his songs are legendary and cut his teeth on the
And from last edition…Released in 1976, this album is regarded as one of the popular musical benchmarks of all time. This artist was already a household name and a consummate music innovator. So confident of the albums success, this artist asked for an up front payment of a record 13 million dollars. That’s a lot of dough now - imagine what that was worth in '76! The record producer of the day said it felt like the biggest gamble of his career but one that only lasted a week as the album went to number one a week after its release and stayed there for 14 weeks in a row. It stayed in the charts for 44 weeks in the
Scribe {James}
