The do you remember thread for oldies

Dorsetmike

Member
I drove one once back in 1961, frightening it was, almost lethal. Saw the front suspension collapse on more than one of them.
 

teddy

Duckmeister
No Colin, not quite that old. Had enough of flat heads with my first Ford. There were three different engines used, progressively getting slightly bigger.

teddy
 

Dorsetmike

Member
Sorry Teddy, 4 engines, you youngsters may not remember the earliest one with split screen (from 1948-53 which I mentioned driving which was a 918cc side valve, they changed to 803cc OHV from 1952, engine size increased in 1956 to 948cc and the split screen replaced by a one piece screen and known as the Minor 1000 and finally to 1098cc in 1962.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Minor

The floor mounted gear lever was long and tended to flop about, commonly referred to as the pudding stirrer.
 

JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
OK ........... This is number one and the fun has just begun etc etc etc
Mike?????????
 

Dorsetmike

Member
I was thinking (yeah, dangerous, I know) when I was a kid we didn't start wearing long trousers until about age 12, it was all bare knees and long socks, now the little wimps are wearing longs at age 5 if not earlier.

On the other hand a lot more adult men wear shorts, or those grotesque three quarter length things; our postmen seem to wear shorts in all weathers, in some ways I can see a point there, no fun walking the streets with a bag full of mail in soggy wet long trousers, however I would have thought modern technology could come up with an effective waterproof material.
 

JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
Roll me over, lay me down and do it again................
 

teddy

Duckmeister
Our postman told me they have a competioning to see who can wear shorts the furthest into the Winter.

teddy
 

JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
My neighbour told me she would recognise my legs anywhere, how nice
 

teddy

Duckmeister
Fascinating pictures Mike. I have ridden on trams when I was young, but not in London and did not realise that they went underground.

teddy
 

Dorsetmike

Member
I did have a few trips in the Kingsway subway around 1946-9; I'd caught the trainspotter bug, (I was 12 in '46) so when we visited family in London I would be given 2 or 3 shillings a day to cover tube fares and allowed to go to the mainline termini (Waterloo, Euston, King's Cross etc) with me spotters books. Can you imagine 12 year old kids being given free rein to roam central London (or any other large town) in this day and age?
 

teddy

Duckmeister
My wife used to stay with her grandmother in Margate when she was little. Apparently she would walk along the seafront in the evening with her brothers enjoying a bag of chips. I would think twice about walking along the seafront at Margate in the evening, with or without chips.

teddy
 

Dorsetmike

Member
Colin, look closely at the fleet number on the front of the tram, just under the cab windows and above the headlight.
 

teddy

Duckmeister
By 1989 I had been driving around London for some 20 years and can not remember seeing any trams around, or tram lines. 6th of July 1952 seems to be the last day that trams ran in London being replaced mainly by buses.

This is quite interesting........

Trams in London - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia




en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams_in_London

teddy.
 

marval

New member
Those are really interesting Mike. I don't remember them, and like Teddy I didn't realise they went underground.
 
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