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A store clerk asked me to do a survey.
Posted: 28 Nov 2018, 02:31
by airboatr
I didn't want to ... so i said.
I didn't bring my transit with me.
..........................
Blank look.
..I kept walking.
Re: A store clerk asked me to do a survey.
Posted: 28 Nov 2018, 07:48
by simondix
Quite a few people would. But not on this site
Re: A store clerk asked me to do a survey.
Posted: 28 Nov 2018, 10:00
by Airspeed
Joe, I used to drive a Ford Transit van, in fact I drove it from Melbourne to Perth.
Obviously your transit is something else.
Would you please explain.
Re: A store clerk asked me to do a survey.
Posted: 28 Nov 2018, 10:37
by Paul K
airboatr wrote: ↑28 Nov 2018, 02:31
Blank look.
Ditto
Re: A store clerk asked me to do a survey.
Posted: 28 Nov 2018, 12:40
by airboatr
Oh Sorry.
Land surveyors use transits. To survey the land..
Other peoples, who speak-ed de Engwish, might call them a total station..
Which is totally foriegn to me.
we're a fine lot aren't we..
Re: A store clerk asked me to do a survey.
Posted: 28 Nov 2018, 16:37
by Tako_Kichi
More commonly known as a theodolite in the UK.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodolite
The US 'transit' is apparently a variation of a theodolite, trust them to be different eh!
Re: A store clerk asked me to do a survey.
Posted: 28 Nov 2018, 19:45
by FlyTexas
And here I thought theodolite was an element in the periodic table.
Brian
Re: A store clerk asked me to do a survey.
Posted: 28 Nov 2018, 21:31
by Dev One
airboatr wrote: ↑28 Nov 2018, 12:40
Oh Sorry.
Land surveyors use transits. To survey the land..
Other peoples, who speak-ed de Engwish, might call them a total station..
Which is totally foriegn to me.
we're a fine lot aren't we..
In France a Total station is where one fills ones vehicle with the essential fluid to keep it going!
Re: A store clerk asked me to do a survey.
Posted: 28 Nov 2018, 21:35
by TobyV
Read the joke, scrolled down to the Wikipedia link, saw the picture, re-read the joke. Now I get it
For me, as Mike said, a Transit is a Ford van - "the backbone of Britain" as the advert used to say. Until they closed the factory and moved production to Turkey of course. Small fact to bring us almost on-topic, the Ford Transit factory used to be the Cunliffe Owen aircraft factory and was only cut off from Southampton Airport by the building of the M27 motorway in the early 1980s. The flight test hangar from which K5054, the very first Supermarine Spitfire emerged was also part of the site and survived the closure and demolition of the Ford plant, although appears to have been re-clad in rather non-period corrugated metal panels according to the latest Google imagery.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrZHJfdnIIA
Cunliffe-Owen / Ford Transit plant, Supermarine flight test shed to the left with pale door:
https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/resources/i ... fullscreen
http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/4778 ... splant.jpg
Re: A store clerk asked me to do a survey.
Posted: 28 Nov 2018, 21:35
by TobyV
Dev One wrote: ↑28 Nov 2018, 21:31
In France a Total station is where one fills ones vehicle with the essential fluid to keep it going!
Funnily enough exactly what I thought!
