I've had a 56 plate Nissan Note for a few months now.
It's a great car: a diesel, it turns in around 60-70mpg on my commute. And those clever chaps at Nissan have squeezed in dozens of cubby holes and storage spots that make it eminently practical for
smuggling like the Millenium Falcon model boating use. Best of all, my Note is silver, and I can therefore sing old Hawkwind classics as I rumble like a tractor off the driveway.
But I had a nagging question. One that was keeping me awake at night.
You see, in the attic is HMS Dreadnought, quietly slumbering while I finish off Racundra. Now and again I pop up to the attic for the Christmas Tree and stuff like that, and I see the "canoe" lurking in the dark, urging me to return and finish it.
And I will. But the question was:
Will it fit?HMS Dreadnought was conceived in 1904, and the Royal Navy's Committee of Designs decided that she should be 527' long.
Exactly a hundred years later, engineers and designers at Sunderland released the Note, probably also using rulers.
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Coincidence or not? 
With a big thumbs up from The Fates and Numerical Happenstance, was there any chance that the model, at seven-feet three-and-five-sixths of an inch long, would go in?
Only one way to find out!
With the passenger headrest taken off, the seat pulled forward, and tilted right back against the flattened rear seat, I found a had a nearly flat run
possibly big enough for the job. Dashing up to the attic to awaken the beast I offered one up to the other. And the result?
Yes.With one inch left over.
Andy
