Dyslexic Viking Posted July 3, 2022 Share Posted July 3, 2022 A Swedish Ford model A on a Norwegian holiday in 1966. This car was when the photo was taken almost 40 years old and the owner has gone on holiday with it and towed a caravan with it. Impressive and even better the car appaparently still have the same owner. lesapandre, D.E, J W Pepper and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dyslexic Viking Posted July 3, 2022 Share Posted July 3, 2022 Taxis in Notodden Norway late 1950s. lisbon_road, Remspoor, Austat and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted July 3, 2022 Share Posted July 3, 2022 3 hours ago, Remspoor said: My fav. 'Rover. The 101 There was a room named after it. warch and lesapandre 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remspoor Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 6 hours ago, High Jetter said: There was a room named after it. The other way round the book came first. lesapandre 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remspoor Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 Hey; I don't care who you are, get your muddy boots off my car! Dyslexic Viking, J W Pepper, lisbon_road and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoss Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 On 7/2/2022 at 7:54 AM, Remspoor said: That's superb. The modern day London Bridge bears no resemblance whatsoever to the one I knew as a youth when I started travelling about the place, but this picture bears no resemblance to the one I remember either. It has undergone (at least) two total rebuilds over the years which must be unusual for a major London terminus as most, whilst maybe being refurbed, would still be recognisable to any Victorian time traveller arriving today. Remspoor, LightBulbFun and adw1977 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martc Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 https://londonist.com/london/transport/this-brochure-brags-about-bulldozing-euston-station lisbon_road and RayMK 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoss Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 9 hours ago, martc said: https://londonist.com/london/transport/this-brochure-brags-about-bulldozing-euston-station Yeah, OK, fair point, Euston is another exception and of course is now having another major rebuild. But Waterloo, Victoria, Kings Cross, St Pancras, Paddington are all basically the same. Liverpool Street has changed quite drastically, the platforms have been evened up, and the concourse is totally different but the walls and roof are the same so the basic bones are still there. Charing Cross, the frontage is original but inside is totally different with that office block built over the platforms. And Cannon Street has changed out of all recognition but that was never really a major terminus, it is only really used in the Peaks. lisbon_road and martc 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard_FM Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 15 minutes ago, Yoss said: Yeah, OK, fair point, Euston is another exception and of course is now having another major rebuild. But Waterloo, Victoria, Kings Cross, St Pancras, Paddington are all basically the same. Liverpool Street has changed quite drastically, the platforms have been evened up, and the concourse is totally different but the walls and roof are the same so the basic bones are still there. Charing Cross, the frontage is original but inside is totally different with that office block built over the platforms. And Cannon Street has changed out of all recognition but that was never really a major terminus, it is only really used in the Peaks. My Dad used to get a bit angry about the archway at Euston being pulled down. At least the gates were saved & are now one display at York. I heard the rebuilt station was going to have a shopping centre built around it like Birmingham New Street but it was never completed. I assume HS2 will make use of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoss Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 I don't know what the final plans are for Euston now, l've lost interest. I know they are adding five or six new platforms to the west side of the station for HS2 but I haven't been there for about 5 years. Last I heard they had found a significant amount of the old Doric Arch dumped in the river Lea somewhere up Walthamstow way and there were plans to rebuild it but I don't know where they would put it, I can't imagine they would want it actually at Euston. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remspoor Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 Dyslexic Viking, RayMK, D.E and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austat Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 somewhatfoolish, J W Pepper and Remspoor 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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lesapandre Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 On 7/4/2022 at 7:17 AM, Remspoor said: Hey; I don't care who you are, get your muddy boots off my car! That's the King Edward VIII Buick limousine. The custom body was Canadian - designed and built by the McLaughlin Motor Car Company of Oshawa, Ontario, on a stretched 1936 Buick Series 90 chassis, supplied by GM of Canada and powered by a 5.2-liter Buick straight-eight. After The Abdication, the ex-king, by then Duke of Windsor, left in the car for France. There he married the American divorcee Wallis Simpson, and they took the car on their honeymoon. Car still survives in private hands. She had a matching car which also survives I think. Dyslexic Viking, Remspoor, J W Pepper and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remspoor Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 Newcastle. J W Pepper, sheffcortinacentre, Shite Ron and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DVee8 Posted July 9, 2022 Share Posted July 9, 2022 Remspoor, J W Pepper, Shite Ron and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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lesapandre Posted July 9, 2022 Share Posted July 9, 2022 Funny to think of the famous modern 'after-lifes' many of the cars there had - unknown at time... Anglia - Harry Potter A35 Van - Wallace and Grommet Mini - Mr Bean and lots else The ice-cream van in the distance became this: I can't think of anything for the Farina...yet. NorfolkNWeigh 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lesapandre Posted July 9, 2022 Share Posted July 9, 2022 And of course the Jaaaaaaaag has had many later lives - notably... There are those who think this film is made in the 60's it is so detail perfect. Not totally...but it was made on a very small budget. Yoss 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lesapandre Posted July 9, 2022 Share Posted July 9, 2022 Yoss, Remspoor, Austat and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lesapandre Posted July 9, 2022 Share Posted July 9, 2022 I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desart. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings; Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away. Percy Shelley - Ozymandias Mr Pastry, Andrew353w and somewhatfoolish 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remspoor Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 adw1977, Shite Ron, lisbon_road and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard_FM Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 Remspoor, J W Pepper, Austat and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoss Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 On 7/9/2022 at 11:49 AM, lesapandre said: And of course the Jaaaaaaaag has had many later lives - notably... There are those who think this film is made in the 60's it is so detail perfect. Not totally...but it was made on a very small budget. Have seen it many times but the only time at an actual cinema was at a small independent place on holiday in Hebden Bridge. When we left it was absolutely pissing down and we had to drive back over the moor to the place we were staying near Howarth. Seemed very appropriate. lesapandre and bigstraight6 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martc Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 Paddington Station decorated for the Olympic Games, 1948. lesapandre, J W Pepper, adw1977 and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lisbon_road Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 10 hours ago, Remspoor said: I remember the parts man at AC Barnes telling us that when the HC Viva came out, they were selling them so fast that it was only when they did a stock take that they realised they'd lost one. It had been stolen. I suspect it was his favourite story. Great photo. lesapandre, Dyslexic Viking, Andrew353w and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remspoor Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 1 hour ago, lisbon_road said: I remember the parts man at AC Barnes telling us that when the HC Viva came out, they were selling them so fast that it was only when they did a stock take that they realised they'd lost one. It had been stolen. I suspect it was his favourite story. Great photo. I learnt to drive in one with a school. I owned a HA at the time and later I had an HB. The HC was not the best of the series. lisbon_road 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigstraight6 Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 6 hours ago, Yoss said: Have seen it many times but the only time at an actual cinema was at a small independent place on holiday in Hebden Bridge. When we left it was absolutely pissing down and we had to drive back over the moor to the place we were staying near Howarth. Seemed very appropriate. This is one of the best film’s ever and yes I imagine that experience of driving over a moor in pissing down rain after a viewing made it, bonus points if you were driving a really shitty MK2 Jag and Uncle Monty came too stay for the night! lesapandre 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoss Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 1 hour ago, bigstraight6 said: This is one of the best film’s ever and yes I imagine that experience of driving over a moor in pissing down rain after a viewing made it, bonus points if you were driving a really shitty MK2 Jag and Uncle Monty came too stay for the night! Sadly just a Škoda Felicia and I would have been very worried if uncle Monty had turned up in the middle of the night. lisbon_road and lesapandre 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 1 hour ago, Remspoor said: The HC was not the best of the series. It could shift though, if you were being chased IIRC. Oops! Remspoor and lesapandre 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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