eifion Posted July 15, 2021 Share Posted July 15, 2021 A nice collection on a pub wall in Bridgnorth which includes the only stained glass roadsign I've ever seen. worldofceri, Lord Sterling, mk2_craig and 12 others 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted July 15, 2021 Share Posted July 15, 2021 1 hour ago, warch said: I love this site sometimes, there I was, innocently ignorant of the wonderful and varied world of road signs, now I'm well versed in the work of the Worboys Committee. It's fun and educational! My wife did have questions when she caught me looking at some old signs on Google images though... Ha Ha..... Aye, that feller STILL hasn't got his umbrella up! martc, bangernomics, privatewire and 2 others 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warch Posted July 15, 2021 Share Posted July 15, 2021 Actually I was caught looking at this one, which looks incredibly rude! privatewire, busmansholiday, Spurious and 1 other 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somewhatfoolish Posted July 15, 2021 Share Posted July 15, 2021 Tadhg Tiogar, privatewire, timolloyd and 1 other 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightBulbFun Posted July 16, 2021 Share Posted July 16, 2021 pinched from @dollywobbler https://autoshite.com/topic/29975-dollywobblers-invacar-ongoing/page/83/?tab=comments#comment-1490514 (if it was not for the Modern plastic number plates and 1990's rear lights you could otherwise probably genuinely convince someone this photo was taken 50 years ago!) adw1977, Alan_Green, worldofceri and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noel Tidybeard Posted July 17, 2021 Share Posted July 17, 2021 On 16/07/2021 at 01:28, LightBulbFun said: pinched from @dollywobbler https://autoshite.com/topic/29975-dollywobblers-invacar-ongoing/page/83/?tab=comments#comment-1490514 (if it was not for the Modern plastic number plates and 1990's rear lights you could otherwise probably genuinely convince someone this photo was taken 50 years ago!) i think those light units are from way before the '90s and since when is a plastic number plate modern? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightBulbFun Posted July 17, 2021 Share Posted July 17, 2021 18 minutes ago, Noel Tidybeard said: i think those light units are from way before the '90s and since when is a plastic number plate modern? from what I have researched, the Britax 9021/Rubbolite M88 rear lights where first introduced in the 1980's on the Mini pickup, and then only installed on the Model 70 from the early 1990's when supplies of the Model 70's original rear lights ran out and the style of laminated plastic number plate that TWC is wearing is a much more modern plate, from the early 1990's or so when new TWC would of worn white on black pressed metal plates by Tippers bobdisk and Yoss 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barrett Posted July 17, 2021 Share Posted July 17, 2021 Just had to dig out my old phone to find some photos which I knew I had taken... Oldest first, location can easily be extrapolated. Suspect it's considerably pre-motor car, but still interesting This one is in Blackheath, I think. There are a few of these dotted round London, a miracle really considering how much development work has gone on since this was erected - I'd guess Edwardian or early 1920s? This curiosity is in Beaconsfield, in a road of large 1920s houses. I would hazard a guess that it's a bit later than that, but clearly very old. Not something I've ever seen before and I was quite taken by it willswitchengage, Vantman, busmansholiday and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted July 17, 2021 Share Posted July 17, 2021 Is that last one 60's? Back in pre-graphite days when dogs could really get high on pencils? tooSavvy and barrett 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan_Green Posted July 17, 2021 Share Posted July 17, 2021 On 16/07/2021 at 01:28, LightBulbFun said: pinched from @dollywobbler https://autoshite.com/topic/29975-dollywobblers-invacar-ongoing/page/83/?tab=comments#comment-1490514 (if it was not for the Modern plastic number plates and 1990's rear lights you could otherwise probably genuinely convince someone this photo was taken 50 years ago!) Except how would the disabled guy climb up the steep bank to take the photo, what with his gammy leg full of WW2 shrapnel? Dan_ZTT, timolloyd and scruff 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan_Green Posted July 17, 2021 Share Posted July 17, 2021 What does this mean then? Seen in Loughton, Essex. LightBulbFun 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightBulbFun Posted July 17, 2021 Share Posted July 17, 2021 3 minutes ago, Alan_Green said: Except how would the disabled guy climb up the steep bank to take the photo, what with his gammy leg full of WW2 shrapnel? Passenger? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puddlethumper Posted July 17, 2021 Share Posted July 17, 2021 I was out on this road today, a good hooning road, and saw this sign. needs a paint job. Lord Sterling, barrett, somewhatfoolish and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan_Green Posted July 17, 2021 Share Posted July 17, 2021 5 hours ago, LightBulbFun said: Passenger? Spooky. That boy was me! (Well, not quite but nearly). My uncle Bobby would give me lifts in his Invacar in the eighties. Not Paisley but Toryglen, Glasgow. He still had it well into the late 1980's because he learned from his mates down the bowling club that if he took it to the depot in Shettleston (?) for repair they'd never give it back again. So he refused to take it there. At least that's what he said. LightBulbFun, Three Speed and Dan_ZTT 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busmansholiday Posted July 17, 2021 Author Share Posted July 17, 2021 6 hours ago, LightBulbFun said: when new TWC would of worn white on black pressed metal plates by Tippers You sure, ? (you probably are), but my dad's Mk Ii 'tina in 1970 had yellow / white reflective plates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightBulbFun Posted July 17, 2021 Share Posted July 17, 2021 47 minutes ago, Alan_Green said: Spooky. That boy was me! (Well, not quite but nearly). My uncle Bobby would give me lifts in his Invacar in the eighties. Not Paisley but Toryglen, Glasgow. He still had it well into the late 1980's because he learned from his mates down the bowling club that if he took it to the depot in Shettleston (?) for repair they'd never give it back again. So he refused to take it there. At least that's what he said. hah thats cool I have heard/read lots of stories of people hitching rides as kids in relatives Invacars! never mind the passenger carrying is forbidden plaque right on the dashboard! the Depot would of either likely been an Approved repairer or an Artificial limb and appliance centre for what thats worth 36 minutes ago, busmansholiday said: You sure, ? (you probably are), but my dad's Mk Ii 'tina in 1970 had yellow / white reflective plates. pretty positive! DHSS Invalid vehicles where some of the last vehicles outside of London Transport buses to make the move to retroreflective plates they stayed on white on black pressed metal plates until January 1st 1973 when the law mandated they move to retroreflective plates, our current thinking is that white on black plates where a little cheaper and when your ordering 200 or 400 plates at a time the costs do add up! which is also why they where all pressed plates and none of this fancy pansy raised plastic digit nonsense! (if you think about the DHSS as a bus company/operator and the Model 70 as single seater buses then a lot of things they did and how the operated suddenly make sense, because they where in-effect one giant fleet operation) here are examples of L Suffix Invacar and AC Model 70's both on white on black plates VOO623L MPL273L anyways I feel im going to get shouted at so to keep this on topic have a link to the Know your traffic signs PDF which not only contains a couple pictures of shite old signs but also goes into a bit of history https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/519129/know-your-traffic-signs.pdf lesapandre, Mudster, warch and 2 others 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somewhatfoolish Posted July 17, 2021 Share Posted July 17, 2021 5 hours ago, puddlethumper said: I was out on this road today, a good hooning road, and saw this sign. needs a paint job. Is it unusually marshy there, or are the pedestrians very short? High Jetter, Dan_ZTT, warch and 3 others 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busmansholiday Posted July 17, 2021 Author Share Posted July 17, 2021 6 hours ago, barrett said: There's a few like that near me. Only problem we have locally is deciding whether they are referring to two or four legged locals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morrisoxide Posted July 17, 2021 Share Posted July 17, 2021 This came from (what was) my MOT station. My Dad found it folded up in the bin when they were selling up. They said we could have it, because they had found a nicer one with the company name on (Peters Garage). It's had a lick of paint or two but it's staying the way it is. It now resides in the garage. tooSavvy, worldofceri, Dyslexic Viking and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorrisItalSLX Posted July 18, 2021 Share Posted July 18, 2021 9 hours ago, Alan_Green said: What does this mean then? Seen in Loughton, Essex. That’s a very convoluted way to say “No Exit” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeeExEll Posted July 18, 2021 Share Posted July 18, 2021 17 hours ago, High Jetter said: Is that last one 60's? Back in pre-graphite days when dogs could really get high on pencils? The lead in their diet was to slow the dogs down and make them sluggish so they wouldn't run about and shit all over the place. The dogs often became constipated and their less-frequent poops were very heavy, but kids in the 1930s used to scoop them up and weigh them in for scrap, often making a decent price. After WW2 the Dogs' Rights Activists successfully petitioned for lead-free dogs on dogs' health grounds. So you could have a lead-free dog on a lead. Scrapyard owners no longer heard the question 'How much for half a sack of dog-poop Mister?', but the dogs were happier. And faster. Changed days, it was the end of the era of dark grey dog-poop and the start of modern fully bio-degradable light-grey and white dog-poop which emerged (literally) from about 1953 onwards. This information brought to you from the Autoshite History Files of fascination. High Jetter, LightBulbFun, chaseracer and 12 others 3 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somewhatfoolish Posted July 18, 2021 Share Posted July 18, 2021 Are you really Philomena Cunk? chodweaver, puddlethumper, Dan_ZTT and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilA Posted July 18, 2021 Share Posted July 18, 2021 11 hours ago, MorrisItalSLX said: That’s a very convoluted way to say “No Exit” Common sign to see here. It's usually at the entrance to a network of smaller roads, like a housing estate, whereby you may have a loop of road once you enter the network but there's no other way out For instance the road goes ---O---| you'd have the no outlet sign at the entrance, and a DEAD END sign on the spur off the loop. UK only seems to really bother with a dead end sign; whereas over here is much more common for there to be multiple entrances and exits to a set of streets. It's usually used as a warning to articulated vehicles. MorrisItalSLX, lesapandre and Dan_ZTT 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorrisItalSLX Posted July 18, 2021 Share Posted July 18, 2021 28 minutes ago, PhilA said: Common sign to see here. It's usually at the entrance to a network of smaller roads, like a housing estate, whereby you may have a loop of road once you enter the network but there's no other way out For instance the road goes ---O---| you'd have the no outlet sign at the entrance, and a DEAD END sign on the spur off the loop. UK only seems to really bother with a dead end sign; whereas over here is much more common for there to be multiple entrances and exits to a set of streets. It's usually used as a warning to articulated vehicles. That’s very similar to the way we do things in Australia, except we use the term NO THROUGH ROAD. PhilA, Dan_ZTT and LightBulbFun 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martc Posted July 18, 2021 Share Posted July 18, 2021 4 hours ago, PhilA said: UK only seems to really bother with a dead end sign Strictly speaking the UK doesn't have a dead end sign as there's often an exit for pedestrians or bicycles. This phun phact was drummed into me prior to my driving test - if the sign turned up, by random selection, you should say it stands for 'no through road'. Years later the Highway Code still calls it that, so my time wasn't wasted. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/58170307ed915d61c5000000/the-highway-code-traffic-signs.pdf (and it didn't turn up in the test) worldofceri and PhilA 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adw1977 Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 This one in Golders Green, London is an unusual survivor because it's an instructional sign so, unlike information signs, really should be to current standards. LightBulbFun and bunglebus 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
worldofceri Posted July 27, 2021 Share Posted July 27, 2021 Spotted this beauty today. Sorry about the hasty potato-cam shot. Twiggy, LightBulbFun and warch 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leyland Worldmaster Posted July 27, 2021 Share Posted July 27, 2021 18 hours ago, adw1977 said: This one in Golders Green, London is an unusual survivor because it's an instructional sign so, unlike information signs, really should be to current standards. Looks like it is holding the wall together! 😂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martc Posted July 27, 2021 Share Posted July 27, 2021 The Star Inn North Dalton, a rather faded AA sign from I would guess the 1920's. It has distances to Driffield, Middleton on the Wolds and that there London (200 miles), only Driffield is in the the direction you would be travelling when seeing this sign! It also says 'Safety First', modern day nanny state, eh? Garton-on-the Wolds, further north than North Dalton, but 2 miles closer to that London. busmansholiday and worldofceri 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitsisigma01 Posted August 7, 2021 Share Posted August 7, 2021 Might be of interest to some warch, Dyslexic Viking, CaptainBoom and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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