LightBulbFun Posted July 17, 2021 Share Posted July 17, 2021 5 hours ago, Remspoor said: would be rude not too now wouldn't it @Yoss Remspoor, Yoss, Shite Ron and 2 others 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoss Posted July 17, 2021 Share Posted July 17, 2021 5 minutes ago, LightBulbFun said: would be rude not too now wouldn't it @Yoss Shame I can't quite see the garage code on that. It was carrying that CIS advert right til the end of its London days in 1987 but it was a Norwood bus then. But the BHS ads on the front look much older and the 9 was run by so many garages over the years. I know it was new to Victoria (GM) and finished at Norwood (N) and I think it was at Catford (TL) before it's last overhaul in 1984 but that would never have run the 9. I have its history upstairs but I'll have to have a look tomorrow now as I wouldn't dare wake Mrs Yoss up now. lesapandre and LightBulbFun 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightBulbFun Posted July 17, 2021 Share Posted July 17, 2021 30 minutes ago, Yoss said: Shame I can't quite see the garage code on that. It was carrying that CIS advert right til the end of its London days in 1987 but it was a Norwood bus then. But the BHS ads on the front look much older and the 9 was run by so many garages over the years. I know it was new to Victoria (GM) and finished at Norwood (N) and I think it was at Catford (TL) before it's last overhaul in 1984 but that would never have run the 9. I have its history upstairs but I'll have to have a look tomorrow now as I wouldn't dare wake Mrs Yoss up now. countrybus.org will have a good potted history I imagine but for what its worth I pinched the photo from here https://thetransportlibrary.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=18898&search=Mansfield+District%2C+ex+B&category_id=2&page=169 lesapandre 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lesapandre Posted July 18, 2021 Share Posted July 18, 2021 Rab, Remspoor, Dyslexic Viking and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoss Posted July 18, 2021 Share Posted July 18, 2021 12 hours ago, LightBulbFun said: countrybus.org will have a good potted history I imagine but for what its worth I pinched the photo from here https://thetransportlibrary.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=18898&search=Mansfield+District%2C+ex+B&category_id=2&page=169 The above site is a bit vague it only mentions what I already knew. But I'm sure it was a Dalston bus for a while and the 9A was a Sunday only route from Mortlake to Aldgate run by Mortlake and Dalston garages from about 1971 to 1981 so my money is in it being late 70s with those ads. It was certainly never a Mortlake bus, I would have remembered that, that's a garage I watched slowly die. Dalston to Aldgate would be quite a short garage run especially on a Sunday morning. I've just looked up Dalston garage as I don't remember it. It was closed in 1981 which would explain why but it really was very close to where you are now. In Shrubland Road just up Queensbridge Road. If only... etc. LightBulbFun 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martc Posted July 18, 2021 Share Posted July 18, 2021 Apparently this happened somewhere in Australia, some time in the past. Those look like ex army Hardly Dangerouses so it could be in the late '40's when they were cheaper than horses. LightBulbFun, busmansholiday, JeeExEll and 3 others 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remspoor Posted July 18, 2021 Share Posted July 18, 2021 Dyslexic Viking 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Tadhg Tiogar Posted July 23, 2021 Share Posted July 23, 2021 On 7/18/2021 at 7:43 PM, martc said: Apparently this happened somewhere in Australia, some time in the past. Those look like ex army Hardly Dangerouses so it could be in the late '40's when they were cheaper than horses. The answer to the question: "What did the Romans ever do for us?" martc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asimo Posted July 23, 2021 Share Posted July 23, 2021 Remspoor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Remspoor Posted July 23, 2021 Share Posted July 23, 2021 10 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said: The answer to the question: "What did the Romans ever do for us?" Not a lot in Australia I understand. Yoss and lesapandre 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lesapandre Posted July 23, 2021 Share Posted July 23, 2021 Funny you should say that...Australia is a Roman derived name. The Latin word australis, which means 'southern' was first used over a thousand years ago in the name of an imaginary land called Terra Australis Incognito–the Unknown Southern Land... Those Roman's they get everywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martc Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 Approaching sandstorm, the South Bay, Scarborough Western Desert. Remspoor and Dyslexic Viking 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martc Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 August 1966. 'This was my midnight blue Aston Martin DB6 after I'd had a run-in with another car close to my flat in Harley House, Marylebone. I'd only had it for three weeks when this happened. It cost me £200 to have it fixed,' recalls Mick Jagger. Dyslexic Viking and Austat 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martc Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 Jean Paul Belmondo one of the biggest French stars from the '60s '70s and '80s Dyslexic Viking, Remspoor, Dick Longbridge and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martc Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 'Look cool, she's my Grandma' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martc Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 Peugeot frame and a de Dion engine. Just look at that chain... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Dyslexic Viking Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 Skåbu Gudbrandsdalen Norway Racing Norway 1930s Transport of steam boiler Trondheim Norway 1944. Both the front trucks tow the rear one. Due to the combination of 4 years of war with poor maintenance and wood gas generator, the trucks probably had little engine power left so this was necessary. They also drive on chains on the rear wheels which may be due to worn out tires. bigstraight6, somewhatfoolish, Yoss and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martc Posted July 27, 2021 Share Posted July 27, 2021 Remspoor, Austat, Dyslexic Viking and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martc Posted July 27, 2021 Share Posted July 27, 2021 You may, or may not, like this photo. Three Speed, Remspoor and Tadhg Tiogar 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somewhatfoolish Posted July 27, 2021 Share Posted July 27, 2021 Nothing like a bit of closet fascism with the FIAT's oil change. 🤪 martc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSdriver Posted July 27, 2021 Share Posted July 27, 2021 On 7/23/2021 at 9:09 AM, JeeExEll said: I hope thats a Fiat 1500 not a 1300! uk_senator and martc 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austat Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 Taunus P3s: and a sportier P7A RS: JeeExEll, Remspoor and Dyslexic Viking 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vantman Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 Austat, lesapandre, adw1977 and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lesapandre Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 400 unsold Chrysler cars...who'd imagine...the really difficult to shift one's too like the 10yo design Imp and the 180. Any colour you like - they are all unwanted. Who'd have been a Chrysler salesman. By this time the Imp was just about the cheapest UK made car to shift them. The Simca was a pretty old design by then too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Tadhg Tiogar Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 2 hours ago, Remspoor said: Fordor. Lord of the (piston) Rings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoss Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 I watched this again at the weekend for the first time in at least a decade, probably more. It was always one of my favourite films but I wondered, having not seen it in so long wether I was remembering it through Rose tinted glasses. I needn't have worried, its still superb. Obviously a low budget film and they couldn't afford any special effects so the first time you see the lorries speeded up you do laugh for the wrong reasons but you sort of get used to it. And what a cast. At the time none of them were particularly big names, but within ten years we have the best James Bond, the first Doctor Who, The Prisoner, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Cowley from The Professionals... and whatever Sid James became, he just played Sid in whatever he was in. Still a fabulous film. Have a Sid James - Sean Connery face off. This isn't quite black and white but I couldn't find a b/w poster. They missed Gordon Jackson off that list. ETCHY, DSdriver, somewhatfoolish and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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