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The Classic Marque

I wonder if you can ask for the material certificates?

Indian Steel - Tata ?
British Steel - Tata ?
:)

Thanks Malc.

Just spoke with Jones Springs.

145 quid plus vat, plus 20 quid delivered. Made to order. British steel (hopefully that means something these days lol), takes about 3 weeks, pay when they are ready.

I've ordered a set. AHA8093. 5 main leaves with the extra packing bit, as per 1966-1974 springs. Made to original factory spec.

I'll let you know how they turn o...

https://www.owensprings.co.uk/vintage/

Leaf springs from Sheffield England ! - South Yorks so has a Sheffield post code.


Not a recommendation as I haven't used them.

But I remembered chatting to a Classic Parts Guy and he did mention ou could still get UK made springs

OK. :)

On the local news they mentioned Isambard AI using 3/4 MW a bank and I thought what? but it seems correct, connected to the national grid last year and currently peak consumption at 5MW. It seems plans are to use the heat to heat the national composite centre and maybe up to 15,000 homes in a district heating arrangement, power consumption may increase as computation capacity is improved.

New rules for data centres here Bill--- If someone is going to build a centre, which unbelievably we already have a few on our little island already sucking away at the power supply, the proposer also now has to include the plans for their own power supply large enough to power their application along with an estimation of cooling water needed.
I was 'lucky enough' to visit a centre recently-...

I should add that there is about 7GW of battery storage on the grid also (not domestic). But that still has to be charged on a "good" solar day (or from excess wind as well).

Data centres are large consumers and they are on the increase.

We still need a lot of gas generation available or the lights go out on a still night.

Jan
I don't think there is an increase. Current average demand is about 30GW, same as the 70s. But we have a higher population so that indicates lower consumption per household. Current generating capacity is about 70GW which sounds good but about 2/3 of that is wind and solar, which will fall dramatically on a still night.

There isn't enough capacity currently to power heat pumps a...

Yes, lets try!