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[martc]

Happy New Year to all our readers.

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Oslo Norway 1962

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There was a lack of cars in rural areas in Norway after the war and for a good while afterwards so the local taxi was used for a lot, but in use as a funeral car with trailer is new to me.

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Hamar Norway taxi central guess late 50s.

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[lesapandre]

Smog - Dec'52 London.

[lesapandre]

On 12/29/2022 at 11:37 PM, uk_senator said:

Great Eastern Street. In the background is the former terminus to the Great Eastern Railway - still derelict  whilst a decades long planning battle drags on.

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[Metal Guru]

8 hours ago, lesapandre said:

Smog - Dec'52 London.

Ah the good old days! None of today’s pollution!

[Andrew353w]

17 hours ago, lesapandre said:

Smog - Dec'52 London.

An amazing picture! A policeman on point duty (who has ever seen that?) wearing no high-visibility clothing, but carrying a flaming torch! Cars all around, none of which have their headlamps on, and no doubt with fuel pipes that weep slightly.......

Health and safety would have a fit, but, as they weren't around, no-one worried themselves and everyone muddled through. Result-we managed! 

[lesapandre]

12 minutes ago, Andrew353w said:

An amazing picture! A policeman on point duty (who has ever seen that?) wearing no high-visibility clothing, but carrying a flaming torch! Cars all around, none of which have their headlamps on, and no doubt with fuel pipes that weep slightly.......

Health and safety would have a fit, but, as they weren't around, no-one worried themselves and everyone muddled through. Result-we managed! 

Effects of this December 52 'Great Smog' were wide-ranging:

"Although London was accustomed to heavy fogs, this one was denser and longer-lasting than any previous fog. Visibility was reduced to a few metres, with one visitor stating that it was "like you were blind", rendering driving difficult or at times impossible.

Public transport ceased, apart from the London Underground, and the ambulance service stopped, forcing individuals to transport themselves to hospital. The smog was so dense that it even seeped indoors, resulting in the cancellation or abandonment of concerts and film screenings, as visibility decreased in large enclosed spaces, and stages and screens became harder to see from the seats. Outdoor sports events were also cancelled.

In the inner London suburbs and away from town centres, there was no disturbance by moving traffic to thin out dense fog in the back streets. As a result, visibility could be down to a metre or so in the daytime. Walking out of doors became a matter of shuffling to feel for potential obstacles such as kerbs. This was made even worse at night since each back street lamp was fitted with an incandescent light bulb, which gave no penetrating light onto the pavement for pedestrians to see their feet or even a lamp post. Fog-penetrating fluorescent lamps did not become widely available until later in the 1950s. "Smog masks" were worn by those who were able to purchase them from chemists.

There was no panic, as London was infamous for its fog. In the weeks that ensued, however, statistics compiled by medical services found that the fog had killed 4,000 people. Most of the victims were very young or elderly, or had pre-existing respiratory problems. In February 1953, Marcus Lipton suggested in the House of Commons that the fog had caused 6,000 deaths and that 25,000 more people had claimed sickness benefits in London during that period.

Mortality remained elevated for months after the fog.  A preliminary report, never finalised, blamed those deaths on an influenza epidemic. Emerging evidence revealed that only a fraction of the deaths could be from influenza. Most of the deaths were caused by respiratory tract infections, from hypoxia and as a result of mechanical obstruction of the air passages by  pus  arising from lung infections caused by the smog. The lung infections were mainly  bronchopneumonia or acute  purulent bronchitis superimposed upon chronic bronchitis.

Research published in 2004 suggests that the number of fatalities was considerably greater than contemporary estimates, at about 12,000."

Source Wikipedia:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Smog_of_London

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Is the price on the Acclaim £4532? 

[lesapandre]

Source & 1000's of other historical photos Detroit Public Library:

https://digitalcollections.detroitpubliclibrary.org/

[lesapandre]

16 minutes ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

Is the price on the Acclaim £4532? 

Yes - that would be about right for an Acclaim at the time. Of course you'd get £175 off when you PX'd your 1969 Herald. 🙂

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3 hours ago, lesapandre said:

Yes - that would be about right for an Acclaim at the time. Of course you'd get £175 off when you PX'd your 1969 Herald. 🙂

By the time of that photo my dad's 1969 Herald was well and truly snuffed it (I think me & my twin brother killed it learning to drive). He bought an A reg Talbot Horizon from new (and upgraded* that to a D reg Skoda Rapide)

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23 hours ago, High Jetter said:

This is presumably showing the cut away to show Vauxhall (and GM)'s new design of unitary construction.  I've always believed that this period of cars from Vauxhall led to their reputation for rust, which hung on for a long time and well after they'd got their act together.  A fine lesson in marketing for us all.  Thanks for sharing.  

[High Jetter]

3 hours ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

Is the price on the Acclaim £4532? 

Any idea where? It looks a bit like Caffyns at Seaford, now a Tesco.

[EyesWeldedShut]

https://www.aronline.co.uk/memories/boston-1981/ - it's probably Holland Brothers in Boston (the actual image is not captioned but it's definitely one or another showroom up in Boston)
 

3 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Any idea where? It looks a bit like Caffyns at Seaford, now a Tesco.

 

[lesapandre]

I think the 'CD' (seedy?) was the range topper for BL? Of course in those days a 'D' did not necessarily indicate a diesel.

[EyesWeldedShut]

Stranraer - George Street circa 1980 (Chysler Alpine JOS883R in the image)

Mega full size is https://canmore.org.uk/collection/1828737