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Horse ramp for getting the horses off. The one in Deptford still survives and is Grade II Listed. You, or indeed your horse, can still use it.

Waiting for that Marina which is pulling onto the hard shoulder?

Imp, g-red, trilby and roof-rack in an x-reg world...

Super-rare Singer Gazelle convertible.

Lovat Lane opposite Billingsgate Fish Market. The market moved down-river in 1982. Not much of that photo survives except the Monument to the Great Fire of 1666.

M62 Crash. Driving in the wrong direction on the M-way. 😐 https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/23/west-yorkshire-police-appealing-for-information-on-fatal-m62-collision

I would join the Roll Royce Enthusiasts Club - they are very helpful and run maintenance courses and the like: https://rrec.org.uk/join-today

Seems like a sensible way forward for dear old Standard/Triumph - but in the usual muddled way of the UK motor industry they just went ahead and produced a different car to compete with one they were already making - the 1500/Toledo which they made in FWD and then changed to RWD. Genius. A 4-dr Herald looks a useful thing. I can imagine that would have sold quite well. Really suited to developing countries as could be made from multiple small pressings. Are they still making Morris Minor parts in Sri Lanka?

It's the new Rover.

Ouch that's rough - probably just as bad underneath. Not expensive but needs massive work. May be MoT exempt but those sharp edges render it illegal for starters let alone structure.

Ouch that's rough - probably just as bad underneath. Not expensive but needs massive work.

I think they were all developed around the same time. The Zabu project is 1958 onwards. That picture must be 1959 onwards, as there is an early Herald in the background - without the rubber- covered bumpers that were introduced in April 1961. Spitfire production started in '62. Bit of the 1960 Peugeot 404 in the front glasshouse too.

That's a doctored picture. The tartan doesn't match...and the shoes are photo-shopped...😂

Guinness Book of Records - world's biggest bong... " It'll tend to make you very very high"

Front reminds me of the 1960 Thunderbird and 1958 Packard Hawk.

I think that's a Minx MkVII. Rootes superficially updated their cars annually. Last year of the old flathead engine - top speed was about 70 mph and 0–60 mph in 35 seconds.

That's Zebu - the first go at the Triumph 2000 - a strange mish-mash 'any car' style before Michelotti tidied it up. Rear 3/4 oddly Austin Cambridge-ish.

£2750 or $2750...which is £2350...turn up and pay the dollars.

"Low owners" ...in fact... 5.

As an aside the BBC reports that "as District Judge Daniel Sternberg disqualified the Tory environmentalist from driving, he warned that drivers who speed "emit more harmful emissions" even in hybrid and electric cars." Interesting legal point there - that the judge is taking in the whole scope of these limits in his consideration of the offence ie not just the danger aspect. Of course the admonishment may have been directed with some irony at Zac Goldsmith as a prominent "environmentalist" driving an electric car. But the jist of the judgment is that some limits are indeed there to protect the environment overall. Interesting point of law bought out there.

Peer of the Realm in Driving Ban! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-68599661 Caught speeding 7 times in one year!! Hang on...let's look at that a bit more closely... 1. 29mph in 20 Zone Embankment. 2. 28mph in 20 Zone Kensington Gardens. 3. A316 Twickenham 46mph in 40 Zone. 4. A316 Twickenham 46mpg in a 40 Zone. 5. A316 Twickenham 47mph in 40 Zone. 6. M25 intersection with M3 62mph in a 50 Zone. 7. M4 73mph in temporary 50 Zone. My experience of driving in London... 1.& 2. The 20mph Zones are in the main not observed by drivers and if you do drive at 20mph, as I do, you often get an angry tooting gesticulating mob behind - and inevitably overtaken by a black Audi and a white van. 3.-5. This is the A316. Easy to lose track of your speed on here. 6. M25 intersection with M3 - Easy to lose track of your speed here. 7. M4 73mph in temporary 50 Zone - easy to get 'pushed' by other traffic to a higher speed as the 50 limit is only sporadically observed. And the moral of the tale - pay attention and observe the limits - but do not get bullied to go faster than the limit or shadow other fast moving traffic - none of these convictions were for particularly egregious flouting of the limit and several were just over 10%+. Sometimes takes an iron resolve - particularly in the 'temporary' 50mph's - on the M20 through Kent - I stick at 50 and am passed by 80% of traffic coming back into London.

The K7 jet boat is now back at Coniston after restoration. The Ruskin Museum have three spare Orpheus engines and will be running the boat again on the lake.

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I think 982XVT is a replacement number for a 'cherished' one removed probably. Sad to see these old classics lose their identity. These replacement numbers never look quite right. This is the one with the opening boot - on the real poverty models there was no boot opening!