Cars, Lasses and Lads - A Photo Sharing Thread

45,051 · February 25

45,051 · February 25

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11,685 · February 25

11,685 · February 25

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15,833 · February 25

2 hours ago, The Old Bloke Next Door said:

Vera, when she was a junior detective? 😀

15,833 · February 25

2 hours ago, The Old Bloke Next Door said:

Too early for VistaPrint, what's the second word?

11,685 · February 26

12 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Too early for VistaPrint, what's the second word?

Can't make it out.

Picture is dated 1968, Queensway, London.

3,478 · February 26

3,478 · February 26

3,478 · February 26

3,478 · February 26

3,478 · February 26

45,051 · February 26

13 hours ago, The Old Bloke Next Door said:

11 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Too early for VistaPrint, what's the second word?

Some thing lodged in my mind said that was Vista Rentals, and low and behold we find this on the interwebs.

15,833 · February 26

17 minutes ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Some thing lodged in my mind said that was Vista Rentals, and low and behold we find this on the interwebs.

Top memory. Love old newspaper ads like that.

15,407 · February 26

44 minutes ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Some thing lodged in my mind said that was Vista Rentals, and lo ssyming that’s mud and behold we find this on the interwebs.

Assuming that’s mid 60s, ( C reg van, ad has a Thanes Trader pre Transits), 10 bob a week or £26 a year to rent, would be over £400 today. It would be like buying a 50in TV and just throwing it away ever year.

45,051 · February 26

40 minutes ago, Metal Guru said:

Assuming that’s mid 60s, ( C reg van, ad has a Thanes Trader pre Transits), 10 bob a week or £26 a year to rent, would be over £400 today. It would be like buying a 50in TV and just throwing it away ever year.

I think the van is G reg.

In 1968 a black and white TV was around £70, plus purchase tax, to buy. So at 10 bob a week it would take 3 years to to be chucking the TV away.

Colour TVs were £300 plus taxes.

My dad rented our first colour sets as you could upgrade after a year to the latest model. You also had the option of buying the set at the end of the contract for a discounted price. Eventually TVs became cheaper when the Japanese imports started flooding in and renting just went out of fashion. I think we got ours from Granada or Redifusion.

11,940 · February 26

1 hour ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

I think the van is G reg.

In 1968 a black and white TV was around £70, plus purchase tax, to buy. So at 10 bob a week it would take 3 years to to be chucking the TV away.

Colour TVs were £300 plus taxes.

My dad rented our first colour sets as you could upgrade after a year to the latest model. You also had the option of buying the set at the end of the contract for a discounted price. Eventually TVs became cheaper when the Japanese imports started flooding in and renting just went out of fashion. I think we got ours from Granada or Redifusion.

We did too when we first moved back to the UK in 1978. Granada I think, just a small B&W, cheap rental then bought it after a few months as they were closing the local shop. Don't remember the cost but not much.

Never rented since.

15,833 · February 26

1 hour ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

I think we got ours from Granada or Redifusion.

When my parents moved us to Eastbourne in 1969/70 they rented from Rediffusion because the whole street was connected by their cables, no need for an aerial. Where the aerial point would have been inside, there was a switch box to change channels like this:

You could get radio on some of the settings as well as BBC1, BBC2 and ITV.

15,407 · February 26

2 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

I think the van is G reg.

In 1968 a black and white TV was around £70, plus purchase tax, to buy. So at 10 bob a week it would take 3 years to to be chucking the TV away.

Colour TVs were £300 plus taxes.

My dad rented our first colour sets as you could upgrade after a year to the latest model. You also had the option of buying the set at the end of the contract for a discounted price. Eventually TVs became cheaper when the Japanese imports started flooding in and renting just went out of fashion. I think we got ours from Granada or Redifusion.

In 1968 renting was probably the safest option because the TV was unlikely to last 3 years without repairs. I remember the guy from Rediffusion coming round at least once a year after a breakdown.
My parents kept renting well into the 90s.

3,478 · February 26

Yes and they didn't always turn up their toes quietly, it usually involved a plume of smoke coming out the back.

9,627 · February 26

3,048 · February 26

8 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

In 1968 renting was probably the safest option because the TV was unlikely to last 3 years without repairs. I remember the guy from Rediffusion coming round at least once a year after a breakdown.
My parents kept renting well into the 90s.

My family rented a set from Granada until 1984, when my Dad worked out it was cheaper to buy a set on credit.

10,324 · February 26

15,833 · February 26

23 hours ago, The Old Bloke Next Door said:

Can't make it out.

Picture is dated 1968, Queensway, London.

Interesting. The first launderette in the UK is there, from 1949.

46,133 · February 27

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