Eye-catching black and whites

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[somewhatfoolish]

  On 26/08/2023 at 21:48, D.E said:

Today I received a small collection of 1920s photos. Some gems in there, I especially liked that the photographer enjoyed taking pictures of everyday life. Please pardon my shit scanner:

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This appears to be an old style linkspan, so they're presumably waiting for a ferry; any idea where it is?

Similar derricks are still on the quayside at Stobcross and opposite at Mavisbank in Glasgow. There were others but the wreckers ball has swept them away.

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Top Gear has a lot to answer for.

[D.E]

  On 26/08/2023 at 23:25, somewhatfoolish said:

This appears to be an old style linkspan, so they're presumably waiting for a ferry; any idea where it is?

Similar derricks are still on the quayside at Stobcross and opposite at Mavisbank in Glasgow. There were others but the wreckers ball has swept them away.

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No idea so far, unfortunately; some of the pictures have the date and location written on the back, but not these. Trying to find out though...

[somewhatfoolish]

  On 26/08/2023 at 21:48, D.E said:

Today I received a small collection of 1920s photos. Some gems in there, I especially liked that the photographer enjoyed taking pictures of everyday life. Please pardon my shit scanner:

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@LightBulbFun is there a geographical origin for single letter plates like there is for two letters and three letters?

[D.E]

  On 27/08/2023 at 14:22, somewhatfoolish said:

@LightBulbFun is there a geographical origin for single letter plates like there is for two letters and three letters?

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These pictures are very likely taken in Holland. We had provincial regs back then, L is for the province of Utrecht.

[somewhatfoolish]

G for Groningen in the other pic? Any chance of the licence numbers being helpful for research? The vehicles do look typical for taxis.

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  On 27/08/2023 at 14:22, somewhatfoolish said:

@LightBulbFun is there a geographical origin for single letter plates like there is for two letters and three letters?

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as above I dont think those are English pictures,

but to answer the question there is indeed, in-fact they are all part of the same system  the 1 and 2 letter system where introduced at the same time

in 1904, in England, the first round of location markers where issued in order of population count, so London got A, then it worked through alphabetically, ending with FP for Rutland 

once all the initial allocations where made then it became a free for all if you needed more marks you just picked which ever one you wanted (that was still available of course)

some places where random other places like London took lots of L multiples, and others like Surrey just took multiples of their original letter

Surrey initially got issued P, so they then took PA through to PL 

you can see a complete list here  http://www.londonbusroutes.net/miscellaneous/regs.htm#index

 

and these marks where not forgotten about some county councils (but not all) even issued their single letter marks in reverse format,  5821F, tells me it was Essex issue of 1957  

some county councils issued their single and 2 letter reverse marks first before issuing their 3 digit reverse marks, where as other county councils kept them in reverse as matters of last resort, only issuing them after all 3 letter marks had been issued

[D.E]

  On 27/08/2023 at 14:45, somewhatfoolish said:

G for Groningen in the other pic? Any chance of the licence numbers being helpful for research? The vehicles do look typical for taxis.

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G  was Noord-Holland, H will be Zuid-Holland. The cars with readable plates are a mixed bag of regs, so not that helpful I'm afraid...

[somewhatfoolish]

Amsterdam is looking likely; this pic has what appears to be the same big building in the background. From here

This ferry has similar derricks.

Also these.

[D.E]

  On 27/08/2023 at 15:17, somewhatfoolish said:

Amsterdam is looking likely; this pic has what appears to be the same big building in the background. From here

This ferry has similar derricks.

Also these.

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Wow! Excellent investigation skills, thanks! 

Edit: this may also narrow down the search for the location of the first pic, which is likely to be a railway station. The back of Amsterdam CS, maybe...

[somewhatfoolish]

Boredom on a Sunday afternoon and there are no outstanding landrover defects to work on. I've probably fucked it now typing that. 🤣

[D.E]

More pics of the same day/event!

The first and sixth car (counted from the left) might be Spykers, but it's hard to know for sure from this distance.

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[Dyslexic Viking]

  On 28/08/2023 at 10:35, MiniMinorMk3 said:

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Gilbraltar?

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  On 28/08/2023 at 11:47, Dyslexic Viking said:

Gilbraltar?

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Yes

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 Stationsplein, Dordrecht-1955

[D.E]

More scans! 

No idea where this is. The fairly compact American car is a 1955 Rambler Country Club, hard to identify the other two..

These two were supposedly taken in Austria. Car could be a Steyr? That would make sense, I guess...

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  On 28/08/2023 at 11:47, Dyslexic Viking said:

Gilbraltar?

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That or a fucking  big Toblerone!

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  On 28/08/2023 at 21:40, D.E said:

These two were supposedly taken in Austria. Car could be a Steyr? That would make sense, I guess...

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It's a Steyr Type II and there's certainly a look of Austria about the scenery.