Humber Bridge car silhouette

[martc]

The toll booths on the Humber Bridge have large yellow signs indicating the toll for cars along with a detailed silhouette of a car. Now here's a question for autoshiteists who use the bridge - is this car a Chrylser Neon?As the tolls went up recently, requiring a new sign, why do they persist in using this olde worlde image?

[mouseflakes]

In the late nineties the Fishguard to Rosslare ferry was still using the silhouette of a Renault 8 to represent the car decks on the map of the ship. Might still be the case.

[ashmicro]

Still a Renner 8 @ Larne!

[strangehighways]

I love this storage in our heads of completely useless information!! Can you imagine telling a girl on a date about the fact that the silhouette on a sign is of an old Renault? I love this!!

[ashmicro]

I love this storage in our heads of completely useless information!! Can you imagine telling a girl on a date about the fact that the silhouette on a sign is of an old Renault? I love this!!

I usually find that imparting such information to a member of the fairer sex results quickly in an empty seat opposite me...

[Noam]

I love the standard road sign silhouettes they are years out of date.The 'no vehicles' one - features a car which looks like an Austin A40, and a motorbike with a vertical fairing and a step-through frame, ridden by a bloke in a 50s-style piss-pot helmet.The standard bus in the bus lane sign is a 1960s MB-type or similar. Doesn't the level crossing sign still have a steam train in it?I'm sure the roadworks sign in the Netherlands features a workman wearing clogs, but that might just be my imagination as it's years since I've been - maybe some Dutch shiters could confirm/deny?The pedestrian crossing the road in Israeli signs is definitely wearing a rabbi hat.

[Guest]

I love the standard road sign silhouettes they are years out of date.

 

The standard bus in the bus lane sign is a 1960s MB-type or similar.

 

Interesting. There's one before the only 'bus gate' on Jersey, that has an even older pictogram on (1950s style bus with door behind the front axle) - must get a photo.

[Noam]

Yep, that's just the kind of thing.

 

I've found the road signs page in the Highway Code, and the level crossing sign is still a steam train.

 

http://www.direct.gov.uk/prod_consum_dg ... 070569.pdf

 

THe bicycle in the 'Cycle Route Ahead' sign has those old-fashioned handlebars as well.

 

Now is the car in the 'No Motor Vehicles' sign an Austin A40 or what?

 

http://www.direct.gov.uk/prod_consum_dg ... 070642.pdf[/i]

[Tayne]

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[Justin Case]

And that 7.5 ton truck looks very much like a 70s Leyland Terrier.

 

Wales seem to have more amusing road signs:

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7702913.stm

 

[pompei]

i use the bridge a lot but have to admit I've never looked that closely at the signage I'm over on Thursday so I'll be armed with my copy of the Observer's book of Sihouettes

[Calum_B]

Now is the car in the 'No Motor Vehicles' sign an Austin A40 or what?

 

http://www.direct.gov.uk/prod_consum_dg ... 070642.pdf[/i]

Always looked like a 50s Ford 100E Anglia with the earlier 3-bar grille to me!

 

[Mash]

The toll booths on the Humber Bridge have large yellow signs indicating the toll for cars along with a detailed silhouette of a car. Now here's a question for autoshiteists who use the bridge - is this car a Chrylser Neon?As the tolls went up recently, requiring a new sign, why do they persist in using this olde worlde image?

For years it was a Montego.