Eye-catching black and whites

[D.E]

[Skut]

[lesapandre]

[sheffcortinacentre]

11 hours ago, D.E said:

Bedford?

[High Jetter]

Topless Consul?

[Skut]

[lesapandre]

[Remspoor]

[lesapandre]

[Yoss]

On 12/06/2025 at 08:42, Skut said:

From Hell Drivers, 1957. Fantastic film once you get past the comedy speeding up of the driving sequences. Obviously taken between scenes as they are all smiling and there was very little of that in the film itself. Except Sid James, second left, who was exactly the same as he always was. 

And absolute all star cast except it was before they all became stars. Stanley Baker, Patrick McGoohan, Sid James, William Hartnell, Sean Connery, Herbert Lom, Gordon Jackson, David McCallum. 

I can't recommend this film highly enough. One of my top five I reckon. 

Top ten at least, he adds having gone through a few films in my head! 

[666jjp]

Loved how they had the lorries speeding about.

[martc]

Eliza Deroche at Chalons in her rebodied Mercedes, with Charles Latham doing his best to look casual on the running board. She was the first woman to have a flying licence and Charles was an aviation pioneer - the first to land a plane on water, tried to cross the Channel (twice) and held an altitude record were a few of his achievements.

[martc]

[martc]

The Digbeth Flyover, also known as the Camp Hill or the Bordesley Flyover, was a notable feature of Birmingham’s mid-20th-century urban landscape. Constructed over a single weekend in October 1961, it was initially intended as a temporary solution to alleviate traffic congestion at the Camp Hill roundabout, where the Coventry Road entered the city centre. Despite its provisional design, the flyover remained in use for 26 years.

[martc]

Kings Cross, that London.

[martc]

Festiniog Railway's 'Prince' mingles with the traffic on Britannia bridge in Porthmadog.

[83C]

13 minutes ago, martc said:

Festiniog Railway's 'Prince' mingles with the traffic on Britannia bridge in Porthmadog.

That would have been in the late 1950s when the stub of the line across Portmadoc to Portmadoc New station and the WHR still existed. In the early preservation days the Simplex ‘Mary Ann’ used to be driven across Britannia Bridge to be refueled, because there was a petrol station just out of shot to the right. 

 

[artdjones]

On 15/06/2025 at 09:43, lesapandre said:

The Triumph looks like good value compared to the P6.

[lesapandre]

And the Peugeot 504-inj an absolute bargain  - no wonder so many sold.

[artdjones]

44 minutes ago, lesapandre said:

And the Peugeot 504-inj an absolute bargain  - no wonder so many sold.

There was an import duty on all the non French cars.

[lesapandre]

5 hours ago, martc said:

Kings Cross, that London.

That road has gone - but the gasometers remain as part of the redevelopment of the whole area.

[D.E]

[Metal Guru]

4 hours ago, lesapandre said:

And the Peugeot 504-inj an absolute bargain  - no wonder so many sold.

Audi 100 very cheap too.

[D.E]

[Andrew353w]

10 minutes ago, D.E said:

The short guy on the pavement has his hand perilously close to the propellor....

[Yoss]

15 hours ago, artdjones said:

The Triumph looks like good value compared to the P6.

I would have still bought the Triumph even if it cost more than the Rover! Given the choice I can't imagine why anybody would ever pick the Rover but maybe* I am a bit biased. 

But the car I'd really like out of that lot today would be the Fiat 130 saloon but that doesn't have a price and I don't know what non fixé means. 

Edit: non fixé - not fixed. Does that apply to the price or the status of the car itself? Probably both. 

[High Jetter]

4 minutes ago, Yoss said:

I don't know what non fixé means. 

Not fixed, POA.

[Andrew353w]

On 15/06/2025 at 09:43, lesapandre said:

The B.M.W. (top right) looks uncommonly like a Wartburg Knight in silhouette. Bearing in mind B.M.W.s were first built in the Wartburg plant that might explain it!

[lesapandre]

10 hours ago, Yoss said:

I would have still bought the Triumph even if it cost more than the Rover! Given the choice I can't imagine why anybody would ever pick the Rover but maybe* I am a bit biased. 

But the car I'd really like out of that lot today would be the Fiat 130 saloon but that doesn't have a price and I don't know what non fixé means. 

Edit: non fixé - not fixed. Does that apply to the price or the status of the car itself? Probably both. 

If the chart is 1968/69 - probably means it had not been announced yet as the car was a new model in 1969  - ie not fixed yet.

[High Jetter]

55 minutes ago, Andrew353w said:

The B.M.W. (top right) looks uncommonly like a Wartburg Knight in silhouette. Bearing in mind B.M.W.s were first built in the Wartburg plant that might explain it!

Knight was shorter though, more the length of a BMW 2002, I think.