Australia v Sri Lanka: Australia fall to Sri Lanka on final ball again. Morris Minor: still big in Sri Lanka I can't speak Sinhala and my attempts to pronounce the Sri Lankan place names only met with puzzled expressions. But everyone knew exactly where I wanted to go when I mentioned the 'Morris Minor Garage'. And it has just begun the manufacture of bumper blades in stainless steel. Indeed, Samarasekara rails against the planned obsolescence of contemporary cars, describing it as . Next to them are stacked shiny new crossmembers, sill sections and engine bay panels ready for painting. But it makes economic sense for relatively small production runs, explains director and factory manager, Somasiri. Some of them have been trained by the company since leaving school while others boast decades of experience, like senior hand Wimalasiri.
Home ยป Tursiops truncatus (Bottle-nosed Dolphin, Bottlenosed Dolphin, Bottlenose Dolphin, Common Bottlenose Dolphin). Other presses are used to punch out holes or form the folds and dimples that give the panels their rigidity. Final finishing is performed with hammers, cold chisels, grinders and files. Workers proudly showed me the new rear side panels they had made for a pick- up in the workshop, along with its load floors, bumper flitch panel and even the tailgate with its characteristic square dimples. Which is why the company also carries out full restorations for local enthusiasts. Forgotten for 2. 0 years and hauled in on the back of a truck, it needed extensive work including new floors, chassis sections and body panels. Shirtless and sandalled in the midday heat, he fashioned a custom repair section for a rusted door with an ease borne of years of experience. As I watched, he measured, snipped, hammered, checked and hammered again until it fitted like the final piece in a jigsaw. Later he showed me a new gutter section he'd made that looked as if it could have come from the original factory. Specialists are brought in to carry out resprays or repair the wood on the timbered Minor Traveller model. Proudly telling me he owned a 1. Minor, he personally escorted me to the right bus as if I were royalty and gave strict instructions to the conductor to let me off at the Morris Minor Garage.
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