{"id":5232,"date":"2011-12-01T16:30:40","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T15:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=5232"},"modified":"2011-12-01T16:30:40","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T15:30:40","slug":"mg-car-lifted-into-count-hall-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=5232","title":{"rendered":"Pure Abingdon – As MG Car is lifted into County Hall Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThere was a road closure from 10-12 today to allow an MG car to be lifted through the window into the Sessions Hall of the County Hall museum.<\/p>\n

A platform lift was to be used and did a trial run first. In the foreground are the town clerk and the chair of the museum management committee.<\/p>\n

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At first the MG – minus wheels and engine – was lifted, using a crane, onto the platform lift.<\/p>\n

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Here are a few of the museum staff, the town clerk, and project manager having their photo taken at about that time.<\/p>\n

But it was not all to be straight forward. The platform lift, with MG on board, stopped a little way short of the window and would not go up any further.<\/p>\n

Plan B then came into operation, or at least I assume it was plan B – it may have been completely improvised…<\/p>\n

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With the help of the crane to take some of the weight of the MG car, the platform lift got up the last couple of feet.<\/p>\n

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Very carefully, with a couple of centimeters to spare,\u00a0 the MG was then guided through the window. The lunchtime crowd clapped and cheered, and the man on the lift gave a bow.<\/p>\n

Somebody near me said “That was Pure Abingdon!”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There was a road closure from 10-12 today to allow an MG car to be lifted through the window into the Sessions Hall of the County Hall museum. A platform lift was to be used and did a trial run first. In the foreground are the town clerk and the chair of the museum management […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}