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Apply to the arts council..
Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2017 2:51 am
by Gob
you'd get a grant for this!!
The rear of a white BMW was left protruding from the wall of a factory after a crash.
Firefighters were called at about 11:50 BST to Swan Road in Banbury after the car partially crashed through the wall of Laser Sailboats Ltd.
The driver was taken to Horton General Hospital with non-life threatening injuries and one person was treated at the scene by paramedics.
Emergency services personnel stayed on the scene to make the building safe.
Station manager Mark Ames said: "When we arrived the powerful BMW was embedded in the wall of the factory, and our immediate concerns were for the driver of the car and the workers inside of the factory.
Re: Apply to the arts council..
Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2017 9:42 pm
by BoSoxGal
It's interesting to me how clean the broken brick is, nice and snug against the car.
Re: Apply to the arts council..
Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2017 1:44 am
by Bicycle Bill
Now look at it from the other side of the wall, BSG.
-"BB"-
Re: Apply to the arts council..
Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2017 4:14 pm
by BoSoxGal
That's a well built automobile! And the brick wall is obviously very solidly done as well!
Re: Apply to the arts council..
Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2017 4:19 pm
by Crackpot
Or a poorly built wall.
Re: Apply to the arts council..
Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2017 4:35 pm
by BoSoxGal
Isn't it a sign of good masonry when only the section that was hit fell down? Seems so to me. Poor masonry would have seen the surrounding sections crumble as well.
Re: Apply to the arts council..
Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2017 6:30 pm
by oldr_n_wsr
It's a weakly held together brick wall.
Doesn't look like enough mortar between the bricks. On the left side wall bricks I see hardly any at all. Or at least the surface of the mortar has disintegrated. One would expect larger chunks of connected bricks to be present. It's like the bricks were just stacked with nothing holding them together.
Either crappily(?) mixed cement or an old building or both. Re-pointing is sorely needed.
Re: Apply to the arts council..
Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2017 8:32 pm
by BoSoxGal
So weakened mortar in an aged building - but bricks so precisely set that the integrity of the remaining wall remained intact, despite also having weakened mortar. Seems the masonry of the wall was pretty good quality.
Re: Apply to the arts council..
Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2017 10:52 pm
by Lord Jim
Bicycle Bill wrote:Now look at it from the other side of the wall, BSG.
-"BB"-
That picture, leaves me impressed with
the car...
BMW could use it in an ad...
"The BMW 1-Series...You can drive it through a brick wall and get barely a scratch"...
Re: Apply to the arts council..
Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2017 11:22 pm
by Long Run
Yes, gives new meaning to the Commodores Brick House.
Re: Apply to the arts council..
Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2017 12:14 am
by Crackpot
If you know what you're looking for there is far more than a scratch but it behaved well which isn't all that hard on a full frontal crash.
Re: Apply to the arts council..
Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2017 12:15 am
by BoSoxGal
Probably a different story if it had hit a freshly set brick wall.