Eye-catching black and whites

[lesapandre]

Both in production 1955. What a world of difference.

[mercrocker]

Here is another small contrast...

 

 

 

 

 

The P4 Rover in the background was halfway through its production life when the DS made its first UK Motor Show appearance.   The Rover was almost as strikingly styled for its own 1949 debut compared to most of the competition.    The P6 of course was referred to as "Solihull Citroen" by the press but was a full 8 years behind the DS.....

 

 

[lesapandre]

Bus stop Armenia

[lesapandre]

Copenhagen

[Dick Cheeseburger]

[Dick Cheeseburger]

[somewhatfoolish]

Google tells me that Inderwick's Briar and Meerschaum Pipe Manufacturers shut its Carnaby St. doors for the last time in 1998. 

[Momentary Lapse Of Reason]

S.F. Edge landing at Battery Pier Douglas for the Gordon Bennett Trials 1903

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Peel P50 in Peel (Sept 1963)

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1904 (little better today...)

[artdjones]

This seems like the best thread for some pictures that are in an album belonging to my mother-in-law.In 1953 my late father in law was an apprentice motor mechanic and his fiancée was working for her father,who owned a small garage.They wanted a sports car but couldn't afford one.So they bought this:-

 

A Hillman Aero Minx Coupé.

 

Which they then converted to this:-

 

Which gave them the car they wanted.

It was used extensively for a while.

Before they got married in 1955,they also acquired this Morgan:-

 

I don't think they actually had a car at the time they got married They were about to emigrate to Canada.So for the honeymoon they borrowed her father's car,this rather lovely Riley:-

 

Soon after,they left England.

 

He did his apprenticeship working on the vehicles belonging to a big laundry.Here are a couple of them:-

[mercrocker]

Wonderful......

[Dick Cheeseburger]

Amazing photos. The father's Riley looks so right. I've never really appreciated much pre mid 50's metal, but my tastes are steadily evolving!

[artdjones]

Amazing photos. The father's Riley looks so right. I've never really appreciated much pre mid 50's metal, but my tastes are steadily evolving!

It's a Kestrel,but what engine is under the bonnet I don't know.Although it's too big for a 9hp,it could be a 12/4 or a 12/6,or even something bigger.Apparently all pre-war Riley's are unique,anyway,plus it was a garageman's car.Around 1936.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

 

 

You forget what a handsome machine these were in standard form.

 

 

 

[Guest Hooli]

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You forget what a handsome machine these were in standard form.

 

Later copied as the E30.

[Momentary Lapse Of Reason]

WTF!

[JeeExEll]

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[lesapandre]

USA 40's.

[lesapandre]

Nuns not on the run. Paris.

[sheffcortinacentre]

Are those American mps trying to unhook the sumac from the tram?

Judging by the suburban on the right.

[mercrocker]

They are Dutch transport police, I would think that is somewhere on the Amsterdam outskirts.    Hookage to errant cars isn't uncommon, neither is having to move stuff parked on the rails - hence the Suburban.

[JeeExEll]

More Aberdeenshire. This time Ellon. May be familiar to Supernaught, etc.

 

Nice shite selection out the front.

[JeeExEll]

That's all very fine, but what's round the back of the hotel?

 

A choice selection. I'd have any one of them.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

More Aberdeenshire. This time Ellon. May be familiar to Supernaught, etc.

 

Nice shite selection out the front.

 

Apparently that joint is still operating.

[JeeExEll]

[JeeExEll]

2000E.