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Witchfinder

1st June 2015 06:57 PM

I always thought those double-decker dealerships looked unsafe

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...herts-32967568

Seems to be a thing at the moment - car dealers having two storeys. I wonder if it's a design flaw, or if they've exceeded the design payload.

tonupkid

1st June 2015 07:56 PM

Nothing wrong with the design. They shouldn't have put that Volvo in there :tuttut:

David's8

1st June 2015 08:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tonupkid (Post 94568)

nothing wrong with the design. They souldn't have put that volvo in there :tuttut:

:rofl::rofl:

briang9

1st June 2015 10:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tonupkid (Post 94568)

Nothing wrong with the design. They shouldn't have put that Volvo in there :tuttut:

yeah that was my first thought too:ROFL:

snapdragon

2nd June 2015 08:02 AM

Sounds like they were tight for space and had too many cars parked on a ramp between floors that was only designed for one to drive up at a time.

David's8

2nd June 2015 08:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by snapdragon (Post 94589)

Sounds like they were tight for space and had too many cars parked on a ramp between floors that was only designed for one to drive up at a time.

Exactly. Bet no one paid attention to the designed load withstand of the ramp.

mattylondon

2nd June 2015 09:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by David's8 (Post 94595)

Exactly. Bet no one paid attention to the designed load withstand of the ramp.

Nail on the head. The ramp would have been engineered for a short term imposed live load, not extra dead load. Somebody is for the chop.

moltuae

2nd June 2015 09:22 AM

I liked the grammatical error made in the Daily Mail's report on this news and the comments of one of the readers who spotted it:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-workshop.html

Quote:

Rogerthedodger, Adelaide, 9 hours ago

"Everyone inside was evacuated", surely the 'building' was evacuated. Unless they were all very frightened..!

Angry of Roda, Spain, Spain, 2 hours ago

Well said. It took an Aussie to spot a glaring grammatical error. 1/10 DM.

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