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3 hours ago, JeeExEll said:

What's the round thing on the lower windscreen passenger side?  Saw one of these on another late 60s pic recently but couldn't make it out.  Little cooling fan stuck to the screen?  Don't know, it's not an accessory I've seen before.

it's a searchlight - operate from inside the car, read the roadsigns etc. 

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13 hours ago, JeeExEll said:

Quick guess without checking anything out,

starting bottom left,

- Ford Galaxie from around 1966, Mk2 Tina, Austin A55 van, Mk2 Escort, Bedford? 

Maxi, Opel or German Ford thing, early 68/69ish  Chevy Camaro with a stripe, FB Victor, possibly Austin A40 van or maybe SAAB estate?, far right too blurry,

Maxi middle left, 

very blurry top lefy has  Landy, maybe a Datsun, bus (I don't know buses), maybe white Mk1 Escort,

possibly Range Rover top right, and maybe another Maxi or Fiat 124.

Many guesses, room for improvement, other opinions welcome, etc  Any background info on pic?, it's an interesting mix with the American cars.

It's from here; the trawler in front of the Maxi appears to have a FR code which means it's registered in Fraserburgh, but the location does not seem to be Fraserburgh unless a lot of remodelling has happened between then(1970 ish?) and now. There's another fishing boat with a register code in the foreground but I can't make out what it is; the port of registry might give a general area to look for likely harbours on google maps.

  

42 minutes ago, Vantman said:

Sheerness Docks---

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Korean?

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22 hours ago, JeeExEll said:

Quick guess without checking anything out,

starting bottom left,

- Ford Galaxie from around 1966, Mk2 Tina, Austin A55 van, Mk2 Escort, Bedford? 

Maxi, Opel or German Ford thing, early 68/69ish  Chevy Camaro with a stripe, FB Victor, possibly Austin A40 van or maybe SAAB estate?, far right too blurry,

Maxi middle left, 

very blurry top lefy has  Landy, maybe a Datsun, bus (I don't know buses), maybe white Mk1 Escort,

possibly Range Rover top right, and maybe another Maxi or Fiat 124.

Many guesses, room for improvement, other opinions welcome, etc  Any background info on pic?, it's an interesting mix with the American cars.

The truck is a Bedford RL, the bus is a coach and has a Plaxton Panorama Elite II body. Cannot identify what chassis though.

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18 hours ago, somewhatfoolish said:

 Korean?

Yup - the car that started the Korean invasion of the UK - the Hyundai Pony. The first ones were imported into the UK in 1982. I guess the photo is celebrating the import of the first batch, the chap at the front certainly seems excited.

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This may also be of interest - https://www.aronline.co.uk/people/george-turnbull/george-turnbull-and-hyundai-video/

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Yup - the car that started the Korean invasion of the UK - the Hyundai Pony. The first ones were imported into the UK in 1982. I guess the photo is celebrating the import of the first batch, the chap at the front certainly seems excited.
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This may also be of interest - https://www.aronline.co.uk/people/george-turnbull/george-turnbull-and-hyundai-video/

I think that would be the updated pony , did the first not have twin headlights?


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1 hour ago, georgeinabz said:


I think that would be the updated pony , did the first not have twin headlights?


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Well this has led me down a rabbits warren. There seems to be a difference of opinion on the t'interweb.

You're right, the mk1 had twin headlights and the mk2 square ones. Now some sources say that a very small amount of mk1's came into the UK in 1981, as per the advert. But other sources say that the first ones into the UK were mk2's, as per the photo, brought in in 1982.

I wonder if the mk1's were to test the water, presumably successfully, and the mk2's were then brought in in bulk, as per the photo and the happy importer?

 

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On 6/12/2021 at 9:33 AM, JeeExEll said:

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What's the round thing on the lower windscreen passenger side?  Saw one of these on another late 60s pic recently but couldn't make it out.  Little cooling fan stuck to the screen?  Don't know, it's not an accessory I've seen before.

Not sure if anyone else has already answered this but in case they haven't the mystery object is a Helphos (can't remember the correct spelling). It is a search light which was suction fitted to the inside of the windscreen. The navigator could direct the beam and it had an on/off rocker switch on the back.

It was great for lighting up signposts etc. when you weren't sure where you were - which was most the time when I was navigating rallies.

There are currently four for sale on ebay if you want a more detailed look.

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13 hours ago, georgeinabz said:


I think that would be the updated pony , did the first not have twin headlights?


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I've just watched the YouTube clip about George Turnbbull, which I thought very interesting. I've been to Korea and their attitude to everything seems to be far more collective (in a non-socialist way) than ours was. I suppose the effects of a devastating war in the 1950s would make them feel their backs were against the wall a little-hence  their desire to "get it right". The comments about the shut gaps was indicative of B.L.'s failings in the 1970s, when the joke was that there were 2 things on earth visible from the moon: one was the Great Wall of China, the other being the door shut gaps on a Range Rover! 

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3 hours ago, Andrew353w said:

I've just watched the YouTube clip about George Turnbbull, which I thought very interesting. I've been to Korea and their attitude to everything seems to be far more collective (in a non-socialist way) than ours was. I suppose the effects of a devastating war in the 1950s would make them feel their backs were against the wall a little-hence  their desire to "get it right". The comments about the shut gaps was indicative of B.L.'s failings in the 1970s, when the joke was that there were 2 things on earth visible from the moon: one was the Great Wall of China, the other being the door shut gaps on a Range Rover! 

And the treatment of the Koreans by the Japanese, when it was a Japanese colony, gave the Koreans a certain incentive to succeed by direct competition (see also China).

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