Eye-catching black and whites

[Amishtat]

2 minutes ago, lesapandre said:

Interestingly the photo looks pre-WW2...but tucked in amongst all the cars is a Rover P4...which put the photo at 1949 or later.

Where is that? 

If I'm looking at the same car you are, that's a Singer SM1500 or Hunter, not a P4. Doesn't alter the time frame, I grant you. 

[Vantman]

12 minutes ago, lesapandre said:

 

Where is that? 

AFAIK it is Dereham,Norfolk,no idea of date though.

[lesapandre]

12 minutes ago, Amishtat said:

If I'm looking at the same car you are, that's a Singer SM1500 or Hunter, not a P4. Doesn't alter the time frame, I grant you. 

Here is the Singer - yes you are right. That puts the photo at 1948 or later.

 

[Richard_FM]

New cars were hard to buy in the immediate post war years so I presume many older cars were kept going until the "export or die" manta cooled down.

[Metal Guru]

7 hours ago, lesapandre said:

Here is the Singer - yes you are right. That puts the photo at 1948 or later.

 

Isn’t there two Ford Pops ( light colour between the lorries on the right and a van with ladders on the left), which would make it 1953 or later. 

[lesapandre]

Possibly - but that body shape was originally introduced in 1937 and ran right through to the late 50's with little variation.

I think if it was 1953 we'd see a few more popular Post-War cars in shot like the Morris Minor (introduced 1948) etc - so my guess would be 1948-49 for this picture. 

All conjecture of course.

Lovely old photo. Given how busy it is must have been market day or some event. Of course petrol up to 1950 was rationed - so maybe it is just after rationing ended which would put the photo at 1950.

[Vantman]

Diana Dors,looking good!

[lesapandre]

Rank Starlet Diana Dors in TV sit-com based in Leeds

 

[Remspoor]

7 hours ago, lesapandre said:

Rank Starlet Diana Dors in TV sit-com based in Leeds

 

Just shows you that not all the TV was good "back in the day"

[Remspoor]

[Metal Guru]

11 hours ago, Vantman said:

Diana Dors,looking good!

She’s going to have someone's eyes out!

[Richard_FM]

Same petrol station, which must have had some famous customers over the years.

 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/131286969@N05/50357783753/in/photolist-2kAY1kd-2jHWNEV-2kAYBUA/

[Remspoor]

[martc]

Britt Ekland and Peter Sellers at the Radford showroom in Hammersmith, London 1965. The new luxury Radford Mini De Ville was a wedding gift for Britt.

Edited January 16, 2022 by martc
S added to Seller following advice from High Jetter

[Dyslexic Viking]

Cultivation East Germany August 1989 with 4 Fortschritt ZT 323 tractors.

[Remspoor]

Another scene from (not)  Van der Valk.

[lesapandre]

5 hours ago, martc said:

Britt Ekland and Peter Seller at the Radford showroom in Hammersmith, London 1965. The new luxury Radford Mini De Ville was a wedding gift for Britt.

Peter long gone of course, the Radford who knows but Britt is still here as seen in this great clip...

 

[High Jetter]

6 hours ago, martc said:

Peter Seller 

I know you embrace accuracy, but his surname was plural. Just saying...

[Remspoor]

Marconilaan junction with Anthony van Leeuwenhoeklaan, Eindhoven.

Accident

Google maps now

Street-view now.

[martc]

Early 1920 - this couple have taken their well-used Rudge and sports sidecar onto the beach for a holiday. Note the decorative disc wheel covers on the wheels: no worry about covering the brakes as there are none on the front and sidecar. There's also a lucky shamrock and stuffed black cat mascot - won at the amusements?

[Remspoor]

[Remspoor]

Families and their cars.

 

[lesapandre]

15 hours ago, Remspoor said:

1970 or just after. Someone learning to drive in that Farina - possibly Riley?

[Remspoor]

3 hours ago, lesapandre said:

1970 or just after. Someone learning to drive in that Farina - possibly Riley?

Triumph outside M&S is J reg.

Viva HC on the other side of the road, introduced in late 1970

[Bfg]

Not sure if this is appropriate here, but it is at least a black-and-white and autoshite related. . .

Dunno where it dropped out of, but I found it on the floor of my hallway where's there's boxes of picture frames and other stuff waiting to be sorted before being taken to the charity shop. It's a drawing of mine, well just half of it anyway, from when I was a younger teenager ..before school exams loomed, and before motorcycles focused my attention - so I'd guess at over 50 years ago.  When on rainy non-school days I'd used to copy pictures of cars and other stuff from action comics and all sorts of magazines.  This depiction was of course was from a comic strip of the Desert Rats during the Second World War.  Perhaps one or two or you will remember which issue of which magazine it was.?

Pete 

[somewhatfoolish]

Could be a front cover from Commando or several similar publications.

[Metal Guru]

10 hours ago, Remspoor said:

Triumph outside M&S is J reg.

Viva HC on the other side of the road, introduced in late 1970

[Metal Guru]

12 minutes ago, Metal Guru said:

10 hours ago, Remspoor said:

Triumph outside M&S is J reg.

Viva HC on the other side of the road, introduced in late 1970

Avenger there too, introduced 1970 as well, but nothing else dates it later .

[Remspoor]

[Austat]