Eye-catching black and whites

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On 10/29/2020 at 2:57 PM, artdjones said:

Sheitte! A Daf 33! Bloddy hell, a TOTAL winner!

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25 minutes ago, Andrew353w said:

Sheitte! A Daf 33! Bloddy hell, a TOTAL winner!

Three was a main dealer in Cardiff ,so a reasonably common car.Some friends had a 44.

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11 hours ago, artdjones said:

The Squeaker was a 1937 film which dates this nicely

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11 hours ago, artdjones said:

In case you're wondering,yes,that really is Jimmy Savile parading through Caerphilly in a Land Rover.

The things you see when you haven't got a shotgun

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Those must have taken some time to load up @JeeExEll and @artdjones, greatly appreciated, it's amazing how much info some of those pictures hold.

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14 hours ago, artdjones said:

Austin Hereford pick-up...Somerset's bigger brother - you can tell by the oval wing vent. Rare - I think most were exported to the colonies.

Sad to see such a useful bit of kit disguarded. BMC entered so many market segments that are still with us today - the beefy medium size pick-up market in this case - but did not really prevail and left it to their competitors to hoover up the market and profits in the end. I've seen a couple of these close-up - very nice.

2.2 litre 4-cylinder with an 80mph top speed for the saloon - so quite useable even today.

I think the styling works better on the bigger Hereford - the Somerset looks too chubby for its size.

From the days when you worked in suit and tie in a scrappies.

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1 hour ago, Skut said:

Still on DVLA database. First reg 1978 as a BMC Leyland. Is it still festering somewhere?

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3 hours ago, Austat said:

"Courtesy light improved" - those were the days...

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3 hours ago, Austat said:

Photo at University of Sussex designed by Sir Basil Spence.

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1 hour ago, lesapandre said:

From the days when you worked in suit and tie in a scrappies.

That's Bill Way,who owned the place.He died not many years after,but the yard kept going into the 90s.The whole area has since been redeveloped.

Edit:-Just Googled them,and they are still operating on a different site.

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16 hours ago, artdjones said:

That's proper mingebaggery, reusing an old clutch.

On a more vintage note, is this a rare photograph of a genuine Horsey Horseless? Whatever it is I have utterly failed to identify it; it's Helensburgh seafront and dated as circa 1911.