Alex Kefford

Head of Editorial for Author of

[Alex Kefford @TallDriver]

Fancy starting the New Year off with an American road trip from your sofa? My book 'Two Jeeps' is a 99p Kindle deal for a limited time: https://t.co/Ba0z13egLs

[Alex Kefford @TallDriver]

@RoadworkUK Triumph Dolomite. Wood so good it escaped the dashboard and set up home on the door caps, too. Bonus Russet Brown action.

[Alex Kefford @TallDriver]

Recent auctions have seen many classic cars struggle to find homes, while those that do sell have fallen well short of their estimates. But has interest in classics really fallen by the wayside, or is it a long overdue correction? https://t.co/kORGLKnDjC

[Alex Kefford @TallDriver]

@timoldland Moab will be heaving with EJS, worth checking your preferred trails will still be open. If you can push return leg into Colorado, look up Million Dollar Highway. I drove coast-to-coast in a British RHD Jeep https://t.co/HTvFSpnnC6 - probably 7k miles and still missed so much!

[Alex Kefford @TallDriver]

@t2stu @CR_AWV My theory is that everything has been tweaked to favour those that cough-up for blue ticks. Non-payers are bumped down the list by the algorithm.

[Alex Kefford @TallDriver]

@RoadworkUK I miss sidewalls. 🛞

[Alex Kefford @TallDriver]

@CrackedW_Screen BTW, 'unfair' was aimed at Autocar, not you!

[Alex Kefford @TallDriver]

@CrackedW_Screen Tad unfair, that. The new Spring hasn't been assessed by Euro NCAP yet, the one star is for the old one.

[Alex Kefford @TallDriver]

@CrackedW_Screen As a bonus point - if we implemented a Singapore-style system, it would cost taxpayers £5.2 BILLION for the mandated black boxes alone. And at Singapore's rate of deployment, it would take 60 YEARS to equip all 40 million vehicles.

[Alex Kefford @TallDriver]

@CrackedW_Screen Not to mention huge costs of administering the system. TfL currently spends 65% of all ULEZ+LEZ revenue on running it. At that rate, road pricing would have to raise more than £50bn just to mirror the current VED+RFD tax take.

[Alex Kefford @TallDriver]

@hiltonholloway Singapore is often held up as the doyen of road pricing schemes. If we mirrored their model, it would cost the taxpayer more than £5.2 BILLION for the mandated black boxes alone, and at their rate of deployment, would take 60 YEARS to equip all 40 million vehicles. 2/2

[Alex Kefford @TallDriver]

@hiltonholloway For 2022/23, CC income was £358m, costs were £135m - that's 38% of all revenue lost in running the scheme. ULEZ+LEZ is even worse: £598m revenue, £389m in costs - 65% gone. Imagine how much RP would have to raise if it was still to generate £32bn for HMT - £50bn? Also... 🧵1/2

[Alex Kefford @TallDriver]

@PaulCowland_ Fun fact: the Viper's V10 engine block was developed by Lamborghini. They were a Chrysler subsidiary at the time.

[Calum E. Douglas FRAeS @CalumDouglas1]

Hi @I_W_M - You have closed your Duxford archive to researchers, for years now, although it is still staffed.

1) Why is it closed to the public ?
2) When is it going to reopen ?

People are having to cancel book projects because you are not making your archive records available. You have a responsibility to preserve and maintain access to historical documents, and the current situation is not acceptable.

[Alex Kefford @TallDriver]

The Imperial War Museum @I_W_M continues to erroneously claim copyright over countless historical images and charges hyperinflated fees for their use. It's time this stopped and that images captured at great sacrifice for everyone, be made available, for everyone.

[Jonathan Ware @ReassessHistory]

So, here it is.

Can the IWM *really* claim © on Crown Copyright images etc where copyright has long expired?

Surely these images should be out of copyright & free to use, right?

Right? /1
#History #Heritage #Museums

[Alex Kefford @TallDriver]

@RoadworkUK These are now one of the UK's most endangered cars. At the current rate of attrition, they'll all be gone in four years. Whether anyone will mourn that stat is another matter...

[Alex Kefford @TallDriver]

@hugo_griffiths Beeper for aftermarket parking sensors, I would suggest.

[Alex Kefford @TallDriver]

@PetrolTed Awesome. A perfect match.