Eye-catching black and whites

[Rab]

[somewhatfoolish]

6 hours ago, fred said:

Fuck getting that one onto a shaft with a two-leg puller.

[martc]

View from a Taxi, Noo Yoik City, late 1970's.

Noo Yoik City, late 1970's.

Meanwhile...

Glasgow 1978.

[Skut]

[Richard_FM]

6 hours ago, Skut said:

Liz Smith has just parked up her Bond Minicar by the look of it.

[Remspoor]

For those of us who are not so young.

[Austat]

Never knew Glas made it to the states, were they sold in the UK?

[Austat]

 

[martc]

1928

Rome 1956

The 1970's when upskirting was the norm, different times.

[Austat]

17 hours ago, martc said:

The 1970's when upskirting was the norm, different times.

GSA in the background, so 80's.

[Remspoor]

[Richard_FM]

7 hours ago, Remspoor said:

A Metropolitan would have been rare even when this was taken.

[JeeExEll]

[martc]

Glasgow...

Queen Street with the Pinkston Power Station cooling tower looming in the background, c1965.

Dumbarton Road, Partick 1978. What's that fella doing?

Meanwhile, almost directly east as the crow flies, in Newcastle 1979...

MOT apprentices look for galloping metal worm under an ADO16.

[martc]

[martc]

Berlin, 1929.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

54 minutes ago, martc said:

....

Dumbarton Road, Partick 1978. What's that fella doing?...

I'd say he was desperate for curling practice, as the nearest ice rink was closed...

[JeeExEll]

He'd better get out of the way sharpish, Cortina guy's revved up and about to do a doughnut.  It's his dad's car and it's a 2.3.

[JeeExEll]

'Drive it like you stole it son or we're not gonna win'.

- 'Yes Dad'.

[JeeExEll]

Demonstrations of the optional Ford HoverdriveTransmission™, available 1970 - 75, (not available with 1100cc engine).

Could even hover round corners.

[Remspoor]

5 hours ago, martc said:

 

Dumbarton Road, Partick 1978. What's that fella doing?

 

 

He works for the water board/company (depends on what covered the area). He is opening up a surface cover (not manhole) for a valve.

This was either to close or open the valve.

I cannot find an image of a person doing this but here is a gate valve  in a mains water network. There are no wheel valves so a rod with a socket on one end is use hence the small cover. It looks as if he has the operating rod in his hand.

Maybe he was about to use a listening stick to ascertain if there was a leak in the nearby.

Image below.

[Remspoor]

[martc]

38 minutes ago, Remspoor said:

He works for the water board/company (depends on what covered the area). He is opening up a surface cover (not manhole) for a valve.

 

The danger, the danger he's not wearing any sort of PPE, he can't be a utility worker, I'm sticking with the temperate curling suggestion!

[Remspoor]

13 minutes ago, martc said:

The danger, the danger he's not wearing any sort of PPE, he can't be a utility worker, I'm sticking with the temperate curling suggestion!

We never did back in the days of B&W. Not even the vans had flaishing amber lights on the roof. Road signs and cones, never saw them.

[Rab]

[Rab]

[Rab]

[Dick Cheeseburger]

On 4/10/2021 at 11:29 AM, martc said:

Meanwhile, almost directly east as the crow flies, in Newcastle 1979...

MOT apprentices look for galloping metal worm under an ADO16.

Cracking photo. There's nothing about that shot which would happen now. Things have changed so much in the intervening 40+ years. 

[Remspoor]

[busmansholiday]

On 4/10/2021 at 5:14 PM, Remspoor said:

An early"skinhead" class 31 and s very nice Seddon lorry.