Looks to me like a small silicon vacuum mold tool, used for producing one-off prototype or ultra low volume parts. You can usually get 5-10 parts out of a silicon tool, depending on the complexity of the part, before the silicon starts to break up. The tool is made by casting a silicon resin around a master part, that has usually been rapid prototyped, then the tool is split and the master removed leaving the cavity to be filled with a plastic resin.

The 125 & Moto2 races are usually broadcast live by the BBC on the red button. The 125s start something like 2-2.5 hrs before the start of the MotoGP race and the Moto 2s around 1-1.5 hours before, so if you go looking on the red button around that sort of time you should find it. They also broadcast the qualifying sessions for all 3 formulas on the saturday aswell.

Well John, you must have had mucho to drink cos it was Thursday during night qualifying 

Oh no, I went to school with his son Nikko. Twas back in the late 70s @ Cookham Dean primary. Spent many a summer's afternoon around his place playing with old rallying stuff.
Top man, RIP

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Hope this helps. 

For anyone searching for a 'Dover-Calais' lever on HID headlamps, if they are fitted, you will find them inside the headlamp housing. You will need to remove the back cover behind the low beam unit and have a furtle around to see if there is anything resembling a lever. Some HID lamps have tamper proof fittings on the back cover and are a dealer job to access, however you may be able to get to the lever (if it is fitted) by removing the high beam cover.
If you don't have 'Dover-Calais' levers them the only solution is to use the load level switch on your dash board to drop the level of the lights. Level 1 should be OK, however if you have a heavily loaded boot you may need to drop them further. There is no way to use beam deflectors/ electrical tape on any headlamp, HID or halogen, that uses a PES unit (the sort with a 'bullseye' lens), the only option is to lower the lamps using the load level switch.
Any vehicle that is fitted with self leveling air suspension will not have a load level switch, in this case your only option (if you can really be @rsed) is to pop the bonnet and reaim the lamps down using the vertical aiming adjusters on the headlamps. Oh, you then need to remember to adjust them back up again when you get home.

Hope this helps 

I do know that there were certain styling features on the cars he had commissioned that were not allowed to be replicated on any of the main production vehicles...one of the reasons why you don't see Rolls or Bentleys with the trendy 'shark gill' brake cooling vents in the front wings So it is probably true about him hoarding stuff rather than let other people own it.

Its not a very well know fact, but during the nineties the Sultan of Brunei kept RR & B Motors afloat by commissioning 21 vehicles. 7 each of 3 different body styles. 1 of each to be kept at his various residences around the world. This may be one of those very vehicles. Each of the cars was hand built by RR & B's in house coach builder Mulliner Park Ward

They are the same thing as the illuminated numbers on the cars @ Le Mans. Basically made from a material that when you put a voltage across it it emits light. Effectively it is a backlit number plate where the backlight is built into the plate itself.
It is this last point that makes them a grey area according to the regulations as the regs call for the mounting area to be illuminated, not the plate itself. Playing with words it might be, but the strict interpretation of the regs means that you still have to have standard license plate lamps. We were looking into using this technology when designing the Bentley Conti GT, but couldn't get the bean counters to accept it when we were already having to fit normal lamps. In fact the VW group has been looking to use these for sometime, but still no go with the regs...they do look good though  , and would be a definite improvement over normal lamps

Electroluminescent plates are a tricky one. The regulations require that the space where the plate is fitted is lit, so technically you still have to have the standard numberplate lamps. Also, the numberplate has to be retroreflective an comply with the relevant standards. Provided that both of these conditions are satisfied then I believe that EL plates are OK to use.
Word of caution though, they can be very noisy from an EMC point of view if not properly designed so you may get problems with radio & mobile reception.

Absolutely blinding show. One of the best I have seen in a long time 

The only problem with the trains is when you have to fight with 30,000 other people to try and get on one after the gig. Oh and be aware that after the concert the police close most of the roads within about a mile of the stadium. We were there at the weekend and passed numerous car parks & sidestreets all queued up with cars not going anywhere because the police had closed all the main exit roads for pedestrians. Well worth parking that mile or so away from the stadium and then have very little traffic to contend with once you get to your car.

Rinspeed Splash: is an amphibious car that uses hydrofoils. Holds the world record for a car crossing the channel  http://www.theautochannel.com/news/2006/07/27/016181.html

Most early/vintage Rolls & Bentleys were bespoke. Rolls Royce & Bentley primarily produced the rolling chasis's and then customers had coachbuilders finish the vehicle to their own specs. Wasn't until later on that Muliner Park Ward was acquired as the inhouse coach builder that they started producing complete vehicles. 

Volvo would be a very attractive proposition for buyers. I believe that it is the division of PAG that made the most money, closely followed by LR. The two may have swaped places since my last info, however it's swings & roundabouts stuff. Either way, Jag & Aston were both money loosers. I don't believe Ford wanted to sell LR but the only way they could shift Jag was to bundle it up with LR and end up with a net gain.