ETCHY Posted September 6, 2020 Share Posted September 6, 2020 1 hour ago, martc said: I wouldn't be too smug about Ford, there's three Fords in that photo, all made in the same decade. Production of two of them, the Pop and the Anglia, overlapped each other by 3 years (and 2 decades of development). I wasn't being smug ?. Also the 103e Popular shown in that pic' was discontinued in 1959 (the year the 105e Anglia was introduced), the Popular at that point became the 100e variant (that was previously an Anglia).. My point was that by the end of the '60's & even into the 1970's BMC were producing the Farina's which looked very dated. Yes those sidevalve Fords (including the 100e) were also out of date but there is a big difference between 1950's & late 1960's motoring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lesapandre Posted September 6, 2020 Share Posted September 6, 2020 4 hours ago, martc said: I wouldn't be too smug about Ford, there's three Fords in that photo, all made in the same decade. Production of two of them, the Pop and the Anglia, overlapped each other by 3 years (and 2 decades of development). The thing about the Fords - notwithstanding their merits is that they sold well and made decent profits given their overheads. BMC got both of these right but not really at the same time. That was bad management. Everything flowed from that. Ford researched their markets - BMC took a punt. But in the end they were too small to compete sensibly against Ford and GM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lesapandre Posted September 6, 2020 Share Posted September 6, 2020 On 9/4/2020 at 6:12 PM, JeeExEll said: Looks like the village I grew up in. Say that was the late 60's everyone drove a cheapish second hand car and cars aged much faster. The Humbers were guzzly and lumbering old busses that were so out of date they had lost their posh appeal and now only appealed to big families wanting a cheap people carrier; the Wolseley 4/44 was a fusty old anachronism that rusted pretty badly and were bangers by then. And the Mini might be 7 years old with terminal subframe rot. Ah nostalgia. JeeExEll, Fat_Pirate, martc and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remspoor Posted September 6, 2020 Share Posted September 6, 2020 Shite Ron, hennabm, Austat and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somewhatfoolish Posted September 6, 2020 Share Posted September 6, 2020 On its bumpstops, that would be fun*. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remspoor Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 23 hours ago, somewhatfoolish said: On its bumpstops, that would be fun*. Yer all the way from Germany to Turkey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ETCHY Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 On 9/5/2020 at 5:14 PM, JeeExEll said: Note poor fit of door on Anglia. For some reason even when new (& before they inevitably dropped) the fit was usually crap at the trailing edge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skut Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 On 9/3/2020 at 10:45 PM, Tadhg Tiogar said: Is this lot out of Bulgaria? I'm trying to think of other Soviet-era states that might have let their departments experiment with capitalist cars The Renner 20 is possibly a Romanian Dacia copy. Dacia 2000 I think it was called and not violating flexible Marxist principles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skut Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 somewhatfoolish, Remspoor, rob88h and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skut Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 On 9/5/2020 at 5:42 PM, JeeExEll said: Dundee Nethergate isn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 1 hour ago, Skut said: ADO16 wheels on that. ETCHY 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somewhatfoolish Posted September 11, 2020 Share Posted September 11, 2020 Sinclair street, Helensburgh 1959 Remspoor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austat Posted September 14, 2020 Share Posted September 14, 2020 JeeExEll and sheffcortinacentre 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martc Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 Tadhg Tiogar, adw1977 and LightBulbFun 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martc Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 Amishtat, DSdriver and puddlethumper 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 31 minutes ago, martc said: The signal heads were cast-iron and weighed a fuckton. I effectively ruined my back once lifting one into the car. LightBulbFun and martc 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightBulbFun Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 2 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said: The signal heads were cast-iron and weighed a fuckton. I effectively ruined my back once lifting one into the car. do you have a collection of traffic signals/lights? if so it would be neat to see a few examples? I noticed you seem to know a lot about them!, have always wanted a traffic light myself, but I have never deeply looked into them (although know a little bit about them because well lightbulbs!) but I do find it interesting when someone posts about them (a few collectors on the lighting forums have some, but most are in the US, I dont know many UK collectors with traffic lights sadly) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 24 minutes ago, LightBulbFun said: do you have a collection of traffic signals/lights? if so it would be neat to see a few examples? I noticed you seem to know a lot about them!, have always wanted a traffic light myself, but I have never deeply looked into them (although know a little bit about them because well lightbulbs!) but I do find it interesting when someone posts about them (a few collectors on the lighting forums have some, but most are in the US, I dont know many UK collectors with traffic lights sadly) I used to have a small collection, having bought them when they were cheap. I had two SGEs (3-aspect and 2-aspect, at a time when they were just 50 quid each), and their similarly-styled plastic German equivalent by Signalbau Huber. Don't have them anymore. SGEs and their much-lighter contemporary rivals, the ATE "tin lanterns", both of which were a fixture in every urban landscape, are now very much sought-after by transport collectors and you'll be lucky to find a single head for under £250 a go. The ones that come up on eBay now are usually subject to crazy bidding wars, so I can forget ever having another one. The really rare ones are the pedestrian heads, with their unique "WAIT" and "CROSS" / "CROSS NOW" lenses, or very early red man/green man pictogram lenses: What I do have now are a pair of more modern Peek Elite heads (a more compact modular design introduced in 1997 to replace the older, clumsier Mellor heads), plus a small Euro repeater (100mm lenses) LightBulbFun and Bamboocarman 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austat Posted September 24, 2020 Share Posted September 24, 2020 Turns out the last Volvo 122S ended up in South Africa: Remspoor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remspoor Posted September 24, 2020 Share Posted September 24, 2020 hennabm, Austat, RayMK and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard_FM Posted September 24, 2020 Share Posted September 24, 2020 I've bought a CD-Rom of Vauxhall Carlton publicity pictures, here are some examples. spartacus, adw1977, Remspoor and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard_FM Posted September 25, 2020 Share Posted September 25, 2020 12 hours ago, Richard_FM said: I've bought a CD-Rom of Vauxhall Carlton publicity pictures, here are some examples. I won't post all the pictures I have but I'm uploading them all here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/richard16378/albums/72157716103594963 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remspoor Posted September 26, 2020 Share Posted September 26, 2020 Bamboocarman, spartacus and Skut 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somewhatfoolish Posted September 27, 2020 Share Posted September 27, 2020 Garelochhead 1963 ish. Remspoor, adw1977, DSdriver and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
georgeinabz Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 Garelochhead 1963 ish.TodaySent from my iPad using Tapatalk adw1977 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somewhatfoolish Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 At least it's not houses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remspoor Posted September 29, 2020 Share Posted September 29, 2020 Skut and RayMK 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skut Posted September 30, 2020 Share Posted September 30, 2020 hennabm, RayMK, Asimo and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skut Posted September 30, 2020 Share Posted September 30, 2020 hennabm, Remspoor, DSdriver and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remspoor Posted October 1, 2020 Share Posted October 1, 2020 adw1977 and Amishtat 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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