Eye-catching black and whites

[Austat]

Taunus P3s:

and a sportier P7A RS:

[Vantman]

[lesapandre]

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.

[Remspoor]

[Tadhg Tiogar]

2 hours ago, Remspoor said:

Fordor. Lord of the (piston) Rings.

[Yoss]

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. 

 

[lisbon_road]

Sadly, they are all dead I think.  Peggy Cummins died not long ago but sadly Sid James and Stanley Baker both died in the '70s.  That's a while gone.  RIP.

 

[bigstraight6]

1 hour ago, Yoss said:

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. 

 

One of my all time favourite films that had a great cast, before some of them became well known. It’s this film that inspired me to be a lorry driver, not ‘Convoy’ or ‘Smokey and the Bandit’.

[somewhatfoolish]

Baker didn't appear in many duds.

[Yoss]

7 hours ago, lisbon_road said:

Sadly, they are all dead I think.  Peggy Cummins died not long ago but sadly Sid James and Stanley Baker both died in the '70s.  That's a while gone.  RIP.

 

Of the main cast, I think Sean Connery was last to go, that was only a year or so back wasn't it? But David McCallum is still going. He played Tom's (Stanley Baker) younger brother. He's now 87.

[Vantman]

What a line up of drivers and 'parrot nose' Dodges as well--super film,i watch it a lot as it's almost my era!

[Remspoor]

[Leyland Worldmaster]

[Asimo]

Last time I was a regular service bus user it was this Coventry route in these Daimlers. 

 

[Remspoor]

14 hours ago, Leyland Worldmaster said:

Oh I sort of remember them I had in my mind that they were RTs painted in London County green. This is obviously not an RT.

I also remember the Police 'Rovers. Having to travel behind one when they escorted petrol tankers etc. Not worrying too mush that if it did go up then we would be toast too.

 

[uk_senator]

[Leyland Worldmaster]

3 hours ago, Remspoor said:

Oh I sort of remember them I had in my mind that they were RTs painted in London County green. This is obviously not an RT.

I also remember the Police 'Rovers. Having to travel behind one when they escorted petrol tankers etc. Not worrying too mush that if it did go up then we would be toast too.

 

It's based on a Thames Trader and has Strachan bodywork. One survives and is a long-term restoration project... 👍 👍 👍 😎 😎 😎 

[LightBulbFun]

[Yoss]

On 7/30/2021 at 7:46 PM, LightBulbFun said:

Route 22 still covers half that route today, though the Eastern end was chopped off sometime in the 80s when most long distance cross London routes were chopped in half allegedly in the name of reliability but in reality putting ease of operation before the needs of the passengers. 

[adw1977]

From the days when everyone wore a hat while riding on the bus.

[Vantman]

[Yoss]

12 minutes ago, adw1977 said:

From the days when everyone wore a hat while riding on the bus.

From the days when people wore hats all the time. 

[Richard_FM]

50 minutes ago, Yoss said:

Route 22 still covers half that route today, though the Eastern end was chopped off sometime in the 80s when most long distance cross London routes were chopped in half allegedly in the name of reliability but in reality putting ease of operation before the needs of the passengers. 

My Dad reckoned they were cut down because the amount of traffic in central London meant they were almost impossible to keep to the timetable.

[Austat]

Frankfurt, 1961:

[uk_senator]

[uk_senator]

[uk_senator]

[uk_senator]

[JeeExEll]

Hand-formed aluminium body by Williams and Pritchard, skilled craftsmen.  Impressive, wish I had the training and skills to be able to do that.

Rocketman.  Fantastic.

Lines not perfect but it was a rough 'that'll-do-for-now' development prototype, that's all it was meant to be.

[Remspoor]

19 hours ago, Richard_FM said:

My Dad reckoned they were cut down because the amount of traffic in central London meant they were almost impossible to keep to the timetable.

My dad agrees with your dad. My dad worked as a bus driver in those days.  Another factor is that OMO buses take a longer time at stops, than a crew operated bus. This may have changed now buses no longer take payments for fare with money.

The 25 was said to be the longest route then is still reasonably long now. https://uktransport.fandom.com/wiki/London_Buses_route_25