Greetings All,

I arrived home today to find a parcel waiting for me. The condition of the box immediately gave rise to concerns.

As I suspected the parcel was the motor and inverter I had been waiting for from RJW Engineering.

The inverter was boxed up separately inside and turned out to be fine. The same could not be said for the motor. It seemed to have just been thrown into the box.

The photos above tell the sorry story. One of the motor's mounting feet has broken off, presumably down to the motor bouncing around in the box. I found the broken portion of the foot in the bottom of the box.

I'll be contacting RJW in the morning. I'll let you know how I get on.

Hello All,

Thank you for your comments. Lambton, I think you should be working for RJW Engineering in their despatch department.

Not shown well in my photographs was the damage to the fan cowl as well as the foot. I can well understand that things get knocked about in transit, but had the motor been adequately packed the damage would not have occurred.

I have just got off the telephone with Mike Thompson, RJW Engineering Sales Engineer. He is looking into what happened at their end, but the long and the short of it is I will be getting a new motor.

I should get a call from him this afternoon, so I will keep you posted.

Carl.

Hello Mike,

I know only too well. I am "up here" in the far north of Scotland. It really infuriates me when the postage is inflated when I'm clearly still mainland UK. I don't buy or do any business with any company that charges extra postage.

It was AJG parcels that delivered the motor. I'm sure you know them. They are currently being looked at by scouts from Manchester United.

Regardless of the courier's attitude, the motor should still have been packed adequately.

Carl.

It was not my intention to pour scorn on your comment. Quite the reverse.

The idea that commerce between an independent Scotland and the rest of the United Kingdom would be adversely affected is something that the Nationalists are trying hard to refute. Likewise Mr. Salmond's pronouncements on retention of the pound, membership of the EU, taxation, tuition fees, the postal service, national debt, defence….the list goes on and on. The whole concept of independence is a nonsense and would be detrimental to the people of Scotland and the rest of the UK. Mr Salmond would get his name in the history books though, so that would be ok.

I'm not really sure how we got from my damaged motor to the issue of breakup of the UK. That said, this is an issue I feel very strongly about and the insidious motives of those who seek to bring it about need to be exposed at every turn.

Very true!

Not your usual money grabbers and nest featherers these though. Formed in the early thirties, the SNP attempted to dissuade Scots from joining the British Army to fight against Germany in 1939. They were all set to collude freely and fully with the Nazis, had Britain been invaded, in order to secure their aim of the break up of the UK.

Carl.

Hi Robbo,

Good point. As you can see from my photo my motor was "packed" for transit in this way. I did not move the motor but took the photo as I found it. Camera phones are a great development!

Carl.