Shite in your town, in ye olden times.

[High Jetter]

That's a sidecar outside 'The Victoria Wine Co', but isn't that a trailer in front? They were rare, but have seen a few.

[dozeydustman]

22 hours ago, High Jetter said:

That's a sidecar outside 'The Victoria Wine Co', but isn't that a trailer in front? They were rare, but have seen a few.

I knew there was a sidecar in the photo and the person who put the photo up on the intereebs said the Other thing was an invalid carriage of some description. I’m slowly accumulating more photos of Gravesend (my home town) but very few of Chichester (Where I now live) which contain vintage rammel.

[High Jetter]

Am sure it is. Harper, maybe? If we only had an expert on the subject on this forum....

[LightBulbFun]

I highly doubt its a harper, AFAIK they never directly made any open style invalid carriage, their first product after buying Stanley Engineering Co of Egham (who made the venerable stanley argson) was the Harper Mk1  

 

I did leave a comment on it, but that was right at the end of page 16 perhaps it flew under the radar, so here it is again  

On 25/09/2020 at 22:19, LightBulbFun said:

certainly has me a bit baffled thats for sure!

I thought maybe an early Invacar? but the frontal profile is all wrong, looking at the way it just droops down like that I wonder if theres space for a front wheel so  I wonder if maybe its funky looking side car, but it has a windscreen wiper and mirrors etc as well a door on the offside which im pretty sure a side car would not have as there would be a motorcycle in the way

heres an Invacar Mk8 for comparisons

 

but the frontal profile is all wrong...

heres an near side photo, it does have the same distinctive bar and associated bits going across the lower rear wheels

 

[dozeydustman]

8 hours ago, LightBulbFun said:

I highly doubt its a harper, AFAIK they never directly made any open style invalid carriage, their first product after buying Stanley Engineering Co of Egham (who made the venerable stanley argson) was the Harper Mk1  

 

Would this not be better discussed elsewhere? Say the Invalid carriage thread?

[dozeydustman]

On 9/25/2020 at 10:27 PM, sheffcortinacentre said:

Isn't that a 4cv rather than a dauphine?

More than likely. I’m not up to scratch on pre R3/R4 Renaults.

[Cavcraft]

1975: Cool trousers, not cool up-skirting, cool car.

 

 

The white building with the tress outside is a long since gone pub, bloody good too iirc. The Tudor building by the lights is The Falcon, a Samuel Smiths pub thus the lager is about 89p a pint but tastes like watered down goats piss.

[Cavcraft]

1976 and a Princess with a shagged wheel bearing. St Oswalds Way, Chester. Not hugely different these days, but the trees are bigger and the bus station is now on the right where the car park (Gorse Stacks) was...

 

[LightBulbFun]

6 hours ago, Cavcraft said:

1976 and a Princess with a shagged wheel bearing. St Oswalds Way, Chester. Not hugely different these days, but the trees are bigger and the bus station is now on the right where the car park (Gorse Stacks) was...

 

Hey I noticed that the image is an embedded picture hosted by facebook

I recommend either uploading it directly to the Autoshite forum or to another external image hosting service and embedding it into the forum from that host rather then facebook

as social media image links tend to often be temporary and often expire and break images as a result, like this one for example

On 14/09/2020 at 18:15, Cavcraft said:

just figured id give you the heads up incase your not aware  

[robinmasters]

9 hours ago, Cavcraft said:

1976 and a Princess with a shagged wheel bearing. St Oswalds Way, Chester. Not hugely different these days, but the trees are bigger and the bus station is now on the right where the car park (Gorse Stacks) was...

 

'We have to put the reflective triangle 20ft behind the car for safety'

'Ok, I'm going to stand another 10ft behind that, with my back to the oncoming traffic, just so I can take a picture 4 teh lolz m9'

Dangerous pictures are not a millenial thing.  

[taranaki]

Newhaven, 1972.

[Mrs6C]

14 hours ago, taranaki said:

Newhaven, 1972.

Fantastic! That's the old swingbridge, operated by a capstan, that used to take the railway line.  What's your connection to it?

[taranaki]

12 minutes ago, Mrs6C said:

Fantastic! That's the old swingbridge, operated by a capstan, that used to take the railway line.  What's your connection to it?

I lived in Newhaven. Went to Southdown Primary, and Tideway school. Mum worked at Peek Winch and Todd on the east side, and we would walk from home across the bridge to meet her during the school holidays.

[martc]

On 11/28/2020 at 7:43 AM, taranaki said:

Newhaven, 1972.

Blimey, even the Victorians would have seen that as over manning and would have used a small donkey engine to move it.

[155V6]

Inside a local shopping centre,probably not long after it opened.

[taranaki]

5 hours ago, martc said:

Blimey, even the Victorians would have seen that as over manning and would have used a small donkey engine to move it.

From memory, it was a 6 hour callout fee if you turned up to open the bridge. Even if you were the  pointman who closed the gates  and stood aimlessly on the abutment.

[Cavcraft]

The Barrs roundabout, from Foregate Street in Chester, 1979.

 

 

The 'garage' sign possibly points towards the Shell garage (long gone) behind that building, going towards the park.

[Sham]

North Walsham - Circa 1970

 

[strangeangel]

Triumph Tina!

 

[martc]

41 minutes ago, strangeangel said:

Triumph Tina!

 

It's been bugging me what that scoot is, I'm not sure it's a Tina (or it's successor the T10) they had a silly pedestal seat and motorbike style silencer. I was thinking of a Raleigh Roma but they had a daft reverse raked number plate.

Triumph TinaRaleigh Roma

 

[strangeangel]

Just now, martc said:

It's been bugging me what that scoot is, I'm not sure it's a Tina (or it's successor the T10) they had a silly pedestal seat and motorbike style silencer. I was thinking of a Raleigh Roma but they had a daft reverse racked number plate.

Triumph TinaRaleigh Roma

 

 

No, you're right! the rear of the Tina is different from how I remember it... really not sure what that is now. I'll have to get the Crime Lab from CSI on it: "Archie, enlarge the scooter... focus in on it" and watch as it metamorphoses from six massive pixels into HD.

 

[Sham]

I was thinking it was a DKR, but could be mistaken.

[martc]

28 minutes ago, strangeangel said:

 

No, you're right! the rear of the Tina is different from how I remember it... really not sure what that is now. I'll have to get the Crime Lab from CSI on it: "Archie, enlarge the scooter... focus in on it" and watch as it metamorphoses from six massive pixels into HD.

 

It's the squared off back end that makes it so distinctive, it's really bugging me. I got all CSI and looked in my Illustrated Motor Scooter Buyers Guide - nil, zip nada. The Roma is the nearest thing so far but the back end goes in the wrong direction. It's not a BSA Sunbeam or the Bianchi (which the Roma was a rebadge of)

10 minutes ago, Sham said:

I was thinking it was a DKR, but could be mistaken.

Dunno - they did some pretty whacky stuff, I don't think our mystery scooter is whacky enough. The DKR Capella is the nearest but it's not quite right, if only it was parked with the front wheel pointing forward...

 

[Cavcraft]

Norbury, London. Former home (area) of my mum, aunty and nan, and it seems Deryck Guyler, probably best remembered for being the copper in 'Sykes'.  Here his pictured with his wife and their Triumph 1300

 

 

Last taxed in 1984, so probably baked beans tins now.

[dozeydustman]

Few more from Gravesend in the olden days.

1982, crossroads of King St, Milton Rd, Queen St and Lord St. An ADO16 plus I think a Fiat.

West Street railway viaduct. An early(ish) Alpine and a Fiat Van, undated but I would guess late 70s or early 80s.

Horn Yard in the 1960s is the L-plate car a Standard?

New Rd around 1986/7. Early droop snoot transit and early square headlamp Suzuki Super Carry.

Similar view only a few years later in 1989/90 shortly before pedestrianisation. The eagle eyed lightbulbfun people will spot the pre-Mellor era traffic lights in the background with the “Policeman’s hat”.

[Mr Pastry]

8 minutes ago, dozeydustman said:

Horn Yard in the 1960s is the L-plate car a Standard?

Hillman Minx 1954, ish.  Not its best angle....  Also Skoda, and Riley 2.6 ? on the right.   I think the nearest rear end is an MO series Morris Oxford.

[Cavcraft]

Check this out, when Henley's were on Boughton in Chester 

 

 

 

[STUNO]

Tokoroa NZ 1955+. The A40 is as old as the town !

The bus depot in the centre is where I currently work from........still the same but the NZ Railways Bedfords have gone. The road in the foreground is the Auckland-Wellington Highway.

[FakeConcern]

 

What car are we in here?

 

[RayMK]

3 hours ago, FakeConcern said:

 

What car are we in here?

 

A bit of a guess, but the engine note sounded familiar and a glimpse of the dash, fresh air vents and steering wheel suggests a Fiesta MK1 Ghia from 1980 approx.  I had an absolutely horrible basic Fiesta MK1 in the mid 1990s.  However, the front indicators look more Escort MK3 and the steering wheel looks Cortina, like the one in my Ginetta G26, so a 'scene' specialist is urged to comment (and tell me it's something completely different)😀.

Edited February 7, 2021 by RayMK
G26, not 23