.... Hoooo: just re-read your msg of 07 Apr 25 - 06:35 PM, Stilly, and followed the link, all the way down the rabbit-hole. Serious stare-at-the-wall time; "brown-trouser experience" ain't in it. All too plausible, and the odds shorten by the day minute.

And I think I have an inkling what the triggering excuse will be.* It won't actually matter quite who's there at the wheel, and who's out: now it's over the brow of the hill, the juggernaut can grind on with much of its geartrain missing.

* I'll refrain from giving someone ideas.