Cars, Lasses and Lads - A Photo Sharing Thread

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11 minutes ago, eddyramrod said:

I think that's the one I saw back in January, in traffic near Euston Road in London during my Writers' Trip.  I wasn't fast enough with the camera...

Photo taken in Soho I think...

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5 hours ago, brownnova said:

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26th June 1952: Motoring journalist Basil Cardew is taken for a test drive by a driver in a typical French beret. The car in which he is passenger is the French, 'City Car 123'*.

* no, new to me as well! 

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Here's your man at the wheel

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1 hour ago, egg said:

26th June 1952: Motoring journalist Basil Cardew is taken for a test drive by a driver in a typical French beret. The car in which he is passenger is the French, 'City Car 123'*.

* no, new to me as well! 

 

Designed by a French aeronautical engineer named Victor-Albert Bouffort. The car is also know as the Bouffort Peardrop. Appears it was a one off as there was no interest from any manufacturers.

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The baker delivers baguettes in snowy Montreal, 1977

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8 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Yes.

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Dad's pulled over to stretch the legs and get a bit of fresh air, while the little boy takes the opportunity to study the local wildlife/is throwing up due to the luxury* ride in the back of a hot and fumey Standard Vangaurd.

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Tsar Nicholas II of the Russian Empire with his wife Empress Alexandra Feodorovna and his four daughters Grand Duchess Olga, Grand Duchess Tatiana, Grand Duchess Maria and Grand Duchess Anastasia photographed in 1914.

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3 hours ago, martc said:

Tsar Nicholas II of the Russian Empire with his wife Empress Alexandra Feodorovna and his four daughters Grand Duchess Olga, Grand Duchess Tatiana, Grand Duchess Maria and Grand Duchess Anastasia photographed in 1914.

Quite sad 4 years later they would all be killed, although there is a rumour that Anastasia survived 

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16 hours ago, Dick Longbridge said:

Yes.

Should that not be "oui"?

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11 hours ago, goosey said:

Quite sad 4 years later they would all be killed, although there is a rumour that Anastasia survived 

That is covered very well in Gill Paul's "The Secret Wife", fiction heavily fact based and most interesting.

I got it free on Amazon Kindl.

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Adolf Rosenberger in a Merc in the 20's, co-founder of Porsche. The Third Reich obviously stole his share of the company, because he was Jewish.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Rosenberger