High Jetter Posted September 25, 2020 Share Posted September 25, 2020 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dozeydustman Posted September 26, 2020 Share Posted September 26, 2020 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. LightBulbFun 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted September 26, 2020 Share Posted September 26, 2020 Am sure it is. Harper, maybe? If we only had an expert on the subject on this forum.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightBulbFun Posted September 27, 2020 Share Posted September 27, 2020 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dozeydustman Posted September 27, 2020 Share Posted September 27, 2020 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? brandersnatch, GBJ, mk2_craig and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dozeydustman Posted September 27, 2020 Share Posted September 27, 2020 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavcraft Posted November 19, 2020 Author Share Posted November 19, 2020 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavcraft Posted November 27, 2020 Author Share Posted November 27, 2020 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... Amishtat, adw1977, Skut and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightBulbFun Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 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 Cavcraft 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robinmasters Posted November 28, 2020 Share Posted November 28, 2020 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. Cavcraft and mk2_craig 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taranaki Posted November 28, 2020 Share Posted November 28, 2020 Newhaven, 1972. Cavcraft, hennabm and RayMK 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs6C Posted November 28, 2020 Share Posted November 28, 2020 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taranaki Posted November 28, 2020 Share Posted November 28, 2020 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. Mrs6C 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martc Posted November 29, 2020 Share Posted November 29, 2020 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. Eyersey1234 and LightBulbFun 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
155V6 Posted November 29, 2020 Share Posted November 29, 2020 Inside a local shopping centre,probably not long after it opened. Shite Ron, face, mk2_craig and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taranaki Posted November 29, 2020 Share Posted November 29, 2020 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 and martc 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavcraft Posted December 10, 2020 Author Share Posted December 10, 2020 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. Shite Ron 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sham Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 North Walsham - Circa 1970 Amishtat, Shite Ron, JeeExEll and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strangeangel Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 Triumph Tina! Cavcraft 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martc Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 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, Eyersey1234 and Dick Longbridge 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strangeangel Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 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. Cavcraft, Eyersey1234, martc and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sham Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 I was thinking it was a DKR, but could be mistaken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martc Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 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 and Dick Longbridge 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavcraft Posted December 11, 2020 Author Share Posted December 11, 2020 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. Eyersey1234, uk_senator and Amishtat 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dozeydustman Posted January 14, 2021 Share Posted January 14, 2021 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”. LightBulbFun, Spottedlaurel, Shite Ron and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Pastry Posted January 14, 2021 Share Posted January 14, 2021 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. RayMK and dozeydustman 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavcraft Posted January 31, 2021 Author Share Posted January 31, 2021 Check this out, when Henley's were on Boughton in Chester Shite Ron, Minimad5 and Eyersey1234 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STUNO Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 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. JeeExEll, RayMK, mk2_craig and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FakeConcern Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 What car are we in here? Cavcraft, RayMK and JeeExEll 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RayMK Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 (edited) 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 FakeConcern 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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