Eye-catching black and whites

[Richard_FM]

4 hours ago, lesapandre said:

MK V Minx and Corsair indicate 1964. Definitely maybe...

It sounds like it from the other postings, I didn't have too much time to study every car.

[Remspoor]

[JimH]

Apologies for a picture of a picture currently on Ebay but this one really did catch my eye. 

The waggon is clearly bulled up to the nines - even the brass louvre plates in the windscreens have been polished. They might look terrible but at least someone has put the effort in. On top of that they've added a rather flamboyant bumper bar and the signwriting is clearly been finished in leaf which would not have commonplace back then. Finally the driver and stoker are rather well turned out even though their dirty faces show they are working. This is clearly an outfit that was proud of its waggon.

 

Note also the fog light pointing at the kerb to allow the stoker to shout instructions to the driver navigating in pea soupers. The Clean Air Act, eh? 

[Remspoor]

[lesapandre]

Looks like he's stuck...interesting coach wiper design - with the wipers themselves on armatures taken through the windscreen glass.

[lesapandre]

Lichfield - 1963.

[ETCHY]

2 hours ago, lesapandre said:

Lichfield - 1963.

Cool pic.

Whenever i see that type of Oxford I'm always struck by how much the front of the mk1 mini's looked like them.

[Richard_FM]

13 hours ago, JimH said:

Apologies for a picture of a picture currently on Ebay but this one really did catch my eye. 

The waggon is clearly bulled up to the nines - even the brass louvre plates in the windscreens have been polished. They might look terrible but at least someone has put the effort in. On top of that they've added a rather flamboyant bumper bar and the signwriting is clearly been finished in leaf which would not have commonplace back then. Finally the driver and stoker are rather well turned out even though their dirty faces show they are working. This is clearly an outfit that was proud of its waggon.

 

Note also the fog light pointing at the kerb to allow the stoker to shout instructions to the driver navigating in pea soupers. The Clean Air Act, eh? 

From what I remember breeze is furnace ash, which gives breeze blocks their name.  Americans call them cinder blocks, which makes it a bit more obvious.

In the days of steam engines there would would have been a fair amount of clinker to repurpose.

[somewhatfoolish]

They must be finding other things to make them from given coal-fired power stations are an endangered species in the UK and there aren't many steelworks left either.

[JimH]

8 hours ago, Richard_FM said:

From what I remember breeze is furnace ash, which gives breeze blocks their name.  Americans call them cinder blocks, which makes it a bit more obvious.

In the days of steam engines there would would have been a fair amount of clinker to repurpose.

Given the location of Hibberts I'm going to guess that there was one fairly major source of raw material. However, back then it looked a bit different.

[Remspoor]

13 hours ago, lesapandre said:

Looks like he's stuck...interesting coach wiper design - with the wipers themselves on armatures taken through the windscreen glass.

Looks like the driver has done a runner.

[Remspoor]

Madrid 1954

[Amishtat]

On 2/7/2022 at 6:09 PM, lesapandre said:

MK V Minx and Corsair indicate 1964. Definitely maybe...

Must be 1965 at least with a Victor 101 in shot

[lesapandre]

FC '101' introduced 1963 unless a particular detail on the car puts it at as 1965 model? 

But yes possibly 1965 when all the cars in view were either in-production models or old cars out of production.

What is surprising to me is the number of Anglias there and the dearth of Minis. All these details  are what makes old photos so fascinating.

The past, as the saying goes, is a foreign country. 

“The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there,” L.P. Hartley in his 1953 novel “The Go-Between.” Not to be confused with the fictional  J R Hartley 😂

[busmansholiday]

1 hour ago, Remspoor said:

Madrid 1954

British built Guy Arab buses there, single deck coming towards the camera and the decker in the distance for sure. Other one is probably the same.

[lisbon_road]

I think the one on the other side of the road might be a trolleybus.  That or there are some very straight tree branches.  Wikipedia says Madrid had a rather short lived trolley network. 

[Dyslexic Viking]

Oslo Norway

[Dyslexic Viking]

Austin

[Remspoor]

 

Distelweg pont- (ferry)-1953 The Netherlands

[Richard_FM]

16 hours ago, JimH said:

Given the location of Hibberts I'm going to guess that there was one fairly major source of raw material. However, back then it looked a bit different.

It switched to being oil fired, then ran on gas before it was decommissioned.

[lesapandre]

Coventry 1968.

[somewhatfoolish]

Panda car calling in a ZOMGHGF while in hot pursuit of apple scrumpers.

[lesapandre]

London - 1960

[martc]

On 2/9/2022 at 12:07 AM, somewhatfoolish said:

They must be finding other things to make them from given coal-fired power stations are an endangered species in the UK and there aren't many steelworks left either.

Breeze blocks are now made from 'expanded clay'. Expanded clay is made by heating clay to very high temperatures (1200C) in rotating kilns. The heat causes gases in the clay to expand and form a sponge like, lightweight material, which, when mixed with concrete, can be used to make lightweight blocks.

https://www.plasmor.co.uk/products-services/techniclay-aggregate/focus-on-expanded-clay

[lesapandre]

Jaguar XJ12 proposal by Pininfarina

[barrett]

I'm sure it's a well-known image, but I'm a bit obsessed by the clarity and depth of this incredible c.1919 Studebaker photograph. It's worth clicking the link and viewing in full size. Really just amazing and proof that a proper, high-quality large-format film camera (well, glass-plate actually) is still unsurpassed in terms of quality even today.

 

https://www.shorpy.com/node/18542?size=_original#caption

 

[Remspoor]

[High Jetter]

I always thought Mercury moved quite slowly.

[Dyslexic Viking]

A Peugeot 203 has got stuck on the ice road on Tana river Norway 1950s.

[Dyslexic Viking]

Holmestrand Norway 1967