No.30

This afternoon to Travis Perkins on Blenheim Road to see about a new saw and some woodworm fluid. My existing hard-point panel saw now being blunt after some years of intermittent use and my having using up our woodworm fluid on the ladders of reference 3. The points being hard enough to make sharpening impossible, at least at home, but soft enough to eventually get blunt. Notwithstanding, they have done pretty well - and truth be told, I don't really want the bother of sharpening at home.

On my way out, I noticed that the First Line Recovery people opposite must be headed up by another car number nut, as most of their vehicles had numbers of the form 'V29 FLR', where the 29 bit seemed to run from 1 to 30. A quick look around turned up a 30, my next number, only a couple of days after No.29.

I remembered that I scored No.24 at this very place last year, noticed at reference 1, but I had not realised at that time what exactly was going on. Nor had I got the to proper post naming convention that I now use, for ease of tracking and verification. Which was perhaps just as well, as it would have taken the fun out of it to have done the whole lot in one visit. I will be suggesting to the rules committee, that up to one number per visit be allowed, on the basis that Blenheim Road is off-piste and only visited on an occasional basis.

They clearly do do some heavy recovery, as evidenced by No.1 above, but I think their main trade is cars, vans and small lorries. Plus the odd mobile home, as in the snap from their gallery above. Plus they have special caravans into which I suppose they insert posh but broken down cars. One of these being visible behind No.30.

Reference 1: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2020/10/a-good-afternoon.html. 

Reference 2: https://www.firstline-recovery.co.uk/.

Reference 3: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2020/09/ladder-nostalgia.html.

Reference 4: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2021/03/no29.html.