Eye-catching black and whites

[Remspoor]

  On 06/09/2022 at 22:32, High Jetter said:

Know it well, where'd you find that? 

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On a thing called internet. It is really good, apart from those who make crappy jokes.😉

[Remspoor]

1953 Werven, Utrecht

[Austat]

Normandy, France, 1978.

[Austat]

Berlin, 1972.

[Austat]

[Austat]

[lesapandre]

  On 08/09/2022 at 03:32, Austat said:

Normandy, France, 1978.

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The '50' at the end of the plate indicates the  Normandy coastal department of Manche - at that time it was still legal to literally paint, using a stencil, the registration plate straight onto a vehicle. 

[Remspoor]

  On 08/09/2022 at 03:36, Austat said:

Berlin, 1972.

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OMG, the rust.

[sheffcortinacentre]

  On 08/09/2022 at 03:38, Austat said:

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What do you think Elsa sedan or wagon?

[Remspoor]

[martc]

Just around the corner...

Quick children, the lions have escaped. Again.

[Austat]

Tokyo, 1984.

Note the SD1 on the left.

[Remspoor]

[Dyslexic Viking]

[Dyslexic Viking]

Norwegian roads have often been shit

[Remspoor]

1967 Kolfstraat, Utrecht NL.

[Andrew353w]

  On 10/09/2022 at 21:15, Remspoor said:

1967 Kolfstraat, Utrecht NL.

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Is that a Brogward van on the left? I never knew the company produced commercial vehicles!

[Dyslexic Viking]

  On 11/09/2022 at 08:02, Andrew353w said:

Is that a Brogward van on the left? I never knew the company produced commercial vehicles!

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Yes it is, and they did make commercial vehicles. There were some of them in Norway and a truck was recently for sale here. I remember when I was a kid there were the remains of a Borgward truck in a closed sawmill we used to play in.

[Remspoor]

  On 11/09/2022 at 08:02, Andrew353w said:

Is that a Brogward van on the left? I never knew the company produced commercial vehicles!

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borgward#Trucks

Also a helicopter, which i did not know about.

[Remspoor]

[High Jetter]

  On 11/09/2022 at 20:21, Remspoor said:

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Longlife shop on the left! The almost mythical chain I worked for in the 80's? Tyre sign on the side suggests it is - any more info on that pic?

[Remspoor]

No idea. Maybe Newcastle or something.

[High Jetter]

Rakish Corsair with stick on numbers on bonnet!

[busmansholiday]

  On 11/09/2022 at 22:31, Remspoor said:

No idea. Maybe Newcastle or something.

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Magee's Ales were from Bolton, so somewhere that way I'd guess.

[martc]

^^^^ My first thought was 'local beer for local people', so it could be Bolton, or somewhere very near. Looking at the car's reg numbers doesn't help, the A30 or 35 (UXA26) is from that there London and the Angle box behind -           185 (then either O or D or C)ED is Liverpool (Warrington) - not a million miles away. Can't make any more out, Bolton would be BN.

I had a look for Magee's Bridge in Bolton, which I guess is a railway bridge - nuffink. And looking at the course of the railway lines in Bolton they all appear to go under bridges, not over...

But I did find some interesting B&W shots of Bolton...

'Room on the back for one more'  'Cheeky sod it's only a year old' 'Sorry, come back next year'

 

1972

Trinity St Railway Station.

These three are 'Views from the top of the Bolton Institute of Technology, 1976'.

[Remspoor]

Found it...Wigan (A view of Wallgate in 1969)

https://www.wigantoday.net/lifestyle/pictures-wigan-and-wiganers-yesteryear-987625

 

[High Jetter]

  On 12/09/2022 at 11:53, Remspoor said:

Found it...Wigan (A view of Wallgate in 1969)

https://www.wigantoday.net/lifestyle/pictures-wigan-and-wiganers-yesteryear-987625

 

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Top sleuthing! Thanks, I'd had a quick snoop but not come up with anything yet. Looks like it's changed a bit in the last 50 odd years (but then, ain't we all!)

Moar info and this pic here: https://www.wiganworld.co.uk/album/photo.php?opt=5&id=25137&gallery=Wallgate&offset=80

I hadn't realised Longlife were in operation that early, it is quite surprising there's not more references online about them, or I need to look harder.

[LightBulbFun]

did you know that if you hit 88Mph in a Sinclair C5 much like a DMC12 you will also travel backwards in time  

(as I am sure @Zelandeth is probably going to find out one of these days either via husky power or accidentally getting hooked onto the back of a speeding BMW/Audi )

[Remspoor]

1975:  Zilvergeldstraat, Utrecht

[Remspoor]