Mad McCann Posted March 6, 2018 Share Posted March 6, 2018 Now you mention it, I'm sure there was one for Johnnie Walker/Red Hackle in Glasgow. Damned if I can think where though. Probable drove under it with Dad when he was away to Rattray's for some bits to fix the A40! d4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted March 6, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 6, 2018 This one still exists in Gloucester IMG_0815.JPG IMG_0816.JPG https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.8540312,-2.2287444,3a,75y,123.53h,99.69t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sZad3cg4gB5n8i8mu-eW7aw!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo0.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DZad3cg4gB5n8i8mu-eW7aw%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D84.91671%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en Andi Compressor's, even more random than brake linings! When I was a kid i thought ferodo was those fredo frog chocolate bars of the early 70s! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad McCann Posted March 6, 2018 Share Posted March 6, 2018 Compressor's, even more random than brake linings! When I was a kid i thought ferodo was those fredo frog chocolate bars of the early 70s! Don't be daft, man; everybody knows he was a character in Lord of the Rings... ;-) D4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kernowtim Posted March 6, 2018 Share Posted March 6, 2018 There was a bridge over the A6 on the Dunstable branch that had an advert for a long defunct ford dealer on one side and local newspaper on the other, think it went a few years ago during busway conversion! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted March 6, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 6, 2018 I wonder if this is where Ferodo got their inspiration from? http://www.waymarking.com/gallery/image.aspx?f=1&guid=3a97d959-0353-4fea-9b57-ea076484c18a It is of course one of Jack Nelson's dioramas. Large block lettering in white. Very simple and because they used lead paint, it lasted forever. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PaulCheffus Posted March 6, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 6, 2018 Hi Fourth image down in this post http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/85326-dave-fs-photos-ongoing-more-added-5th-march/?p=1561024 shows the bridge that used to carry the avoiding line over Lincoln High Street with the Ruston Bucyrus advert. Cheers Paul 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
giz Posted March 6, 2018 Share Posted March 6, 2018 (edited) One of the bridges over Stafford Rd, Wolverhampton still advertises Strykers, a tenpin bowling and snooker club that closed down several years ago and has since been burnt to the ground. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.6002425,-2.129809,3a,60.8y,354.52h,89.21t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s8FxiRyphJClaM1x0do_8wQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?dcr=0 Edited March 6, 2018 by giz 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ian Morgan Posted March 6, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 6, 2018 Is it my imagination, or can I just about see 'FERODO BRAKE SHOES' on this bridge in Bridgend, South Wales? https://www.google.com/maps/@51.4952507,-3.5724255,3a,75y,304.59h,86.96t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s3HUOm1mt8j00mW-nHPdHdw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 Ian Morgan Hampshire Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted March 6, 2018 Share Posted March 6, 2018 Compressor's, even more random than brake linings! When I was a kid i thought ferodo was those fredo frog chocolate bars of the early 70s! Even more arcane, it wasn't even the compressors themselves, but the reducing valves for them. In Robert Hendry's book, 'British Railways' Goods Wagons in Colour', there is a view of one side girder from a 'Feredo' bridge, loaded on a 60' rail wagon, being taken for scrap. It was one from the Leicester area, I believe. Here's one, advertising a local beer, on Windsor Road, Penarth, which is still there:- https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.4425685,-3.1838431,3a,60y,270h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sPSdMR_LXELp6mbSRmoRQ4A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted March 6, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 6, 2018 Hi Fourth image down in this post http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/85326-dave-fs-photos-ongoing-more-added-5th-march/?p=1561024 shows the bridge that used to carry the avoiding line over Lincoln High Street with the Ruston Bucyrus advert. Cheers Paul Just in case a passing motorist fancied swapping his Anglia for a drag line! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
slilley Posted March 6, 2018 Share Posted March 6, 2018 The only one I remember, for sure, was on the North Circular in London, which I drove under for many years - https://shopfrontelegy.wordpress.com/2014/12/20/ferodo-bridge-stonebridge/ But I am sure there was one at Hornsey or Harringay. at perhaps at Barnet. I suggest you google "ferodo bridges" and wade through the hundreds of entries? The one over the North Circular at Stonebridge Park is still there. Will be driving under it on Sunday 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted March 6, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 6, 2018 I'd forgotten about that one,I'm normally on top of it Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted March 6, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 6, 2018 I think the Ipswich one is still there. If my memory serves me right Albert bridge under Middlesbrough station was also one. It seems odd now that a brake company would go to such lengths to advertise to the general public. Most people nowadays wouldn't have a clue who made brakes or other automotive components If that were true, there would be hardly any ads on TV. Most ads are there to make people remember the brand, not as an incentive to DIY. Ferodo are of course still in business and sell around the world. The biggest change is that the product range no longer contains asbestos. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted March 6, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 6, 2018 But there aren't adverts for automotive components on TV anymore Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray M Posted March 7, 2018 Share Posted March 7, 2018 Ferodo also used to make stair nosings, up to the early 80`s or so. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatB Posted March 7, 2018 Share Posted March 7, 2018 But there aren't adverts for automotive components on TV anymore "Fond" memories of those Unipart TV ads from the early '80s. "The answer is yes, now what's the question?". Which, of course,prompted the British Sports Car Centre on the Goldhawk Road to counter with the slogan "Where do you go when the answer is no?". 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted March 7, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 7, 2018 "Fond" memories of those Unipart TV ads from the early '80s. "The answer is yes, now what's the question?". Which, of course,prompted the British Sports Car Centre on the Goldhawk Road to counter with the slogan "Where do you go when the answer is no?". Unipart clinicked their various slogans from that era with BL staff gatherings. I think one produced gales of laughter and was not used. “Can you fit a coil to a Princess?” struck a particular note in the era of media frenzy over Di and Fergie. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Invicta Posted March 7, 2018 Share Posted March 7, 2018 (edited) Even more arcane, it wasn't even the compressors themselves, but the reducing valves for them. In Robert Hendry's book, 'British Railways' Goods Wagons in Colour', there is a view of one side girder from a 'Feredo' bridge, loaded on a 60' rail wagon, being taken for scrap. It was one from the Leicester area, I believe. Here's one, advertising a local beer, on Windsor Road, Penarth, which is still there:- https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.4425685,-3.1838431,3a,60y,270h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sPSdMR_LXELp6mbSRmoRQ4A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en IIRC at one time there were a number of 'Brains' bridges in South Wales? A selection from Leicester- Bridge 368 on Blackbird Road with an ad for local car dealers H.A. Hamshaw- that one survived at least into the late 70s/early 80s, I definitely remember seeing it when I was a kid, but advert and bridge are now both long gone http://www.railwayarchive.org.uk/Lpages/html/L2070.html http://www.railwayarchive.org.uk/map/getobjectmap.php?rnum=L2069&mapid=455303.jpg&mlsref=1036&cmn=Leicester..&pn=7&mp=14&all=yes https://www.flickr.com/photos/108977492@N02/26809563779/in/album-72157690013472605/ Car dealers advertising on bridges seems to have been a reasonably common theme in Leicester, here's another- H.A. Browett & Co on a bridge in Humberstone Lane... http://vitessesteve.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/browetts-of-leicester-triumph-car_29.html https://www.flickr.com/photos/108977492@N02/36701131091 ... another 'Browett' on Saffron Lane http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5471904 ...Bowles & Co. on Narborough Road... https://www.pinterest.com/pin/519532506989815315/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/13462353@N05/4266849364 ...and Castles on Fosse Road North https://i.pinimg.com/originals/29/20/97/292097fbb8d64bccec56a25844e141ac.jpg Edited March 7, 2018 by Invicta Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talltim Posted March 7, 2018 Share Posted March 7, 2018 (edited) The Ashover Light Railway had a Pirelli bridge https://goo.gl/images/XGrgvt Edited March 7, 2018 by Talltim 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Invicta Posted March 7, 2018 Share Posted March 7, 2018 (edited) 'Motor Macs' on Polsloe Bridge Halt bridge near Exeter https://www.flickr.com/photos/vitessesteve/34005325341 and 'Tyresoles' on Lochee High Street bridge, Dundee https://www.flickr.com/photos/118069284@N05/14356590163 'Brains' and 'Handcocks Beer' in Cardiff https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clare_Street_railway_bridge_-_Cardiff_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1605152.jpg http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-railway-bridge-with-old-advert-for-handcocks-beer-canton-cardiff-south-87759475.html http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-railway-bridge-advertising-brains-beers-in-cardiff-wales-uk-73206448.html There seem to be some fairly common themes coming out here- the motor trade and automotive products, engineering and breweries... Edited March 7, 2018 by Invicta Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted March 7, 2018 Share Posted March 7, 2018 IIRC at one time there were a number of 'Brains' bridges in South Wales? A selection from Leicester- Bridge 368 on Blackbird Road with an ad for local car dealers H.A. Hamshaw- that one survived at least into the late 70s/early 80s, I definitely remember seeing it when I was a kid, but advert and bridge are now both long gone http://www.railwayarchive.org.uk/Lpages/html/L2070.html http://www.railwayarchive.org.uk/map/getobjectmap.php?rnum=L2069&mapid=455303.jpg&mlsref=1036&cmn=Leicester..&pn=7&mp=14&all=yes https://www.flickr.com/photos/108977492@N02/26809563779/in/album-72157690013472605/ Car dealers advertising on bridges seems to have been a reasonably common theme in Leicester, here's another- H.A. Browett & Co on a bridge in Humberstone Lane... http://vitessesteve.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/browetts-of-leicester-triumph-car_29.html https://www.flickr.com/photos/108977492@N02/36701131091 ... another 'Browett' on Saffron Lane http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5471904 ...Bowles & Co. on Narborough Road... https://www.pinterest.com/pin/519532506989815315/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/13462353@N05/4266849364 ...and Castles on Fosse Road North https://i.pinimg.com/originals/29/20/97/292097fbb8d64bccec56a25844e141ac.jpg Maybe my memory is wrong, in that case - and there was not one with Ferodo on in Leicester. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Invicta Posted March 7, 2018 Share Posted March 7, 2018 (edited) I'm sure there was one just south of Leicester Central where the GC passed over Braunstone Gate, but that might just be my dodgy memory; and that bridge has long been removed anyway. Maybe my memory is wrong, in that case - and there was not one with Ferodo on in Leicester. I don't know whether I remember a Ferodo, but I woudn't definitely say no - I don't remember some of the Leicester selection I posted, but have vague memories that suggest there were more than these... Leicester certainly wasn't short of railway bridges, especially along the GC route, so there was plenty of scope! Another one- 'India Tyres' over West Bridge Street http://www.gcrleicester.info/html/west_bridge.html The 'Hamshaws' one over Blackbird Road lasted to 1979 according to the demolition pics on this link http://www.gcrleicester.info/html/leicester_demolition_1.html Edited March 7, 2018 by Invicta Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barcaldinegoods Posted March 7, 2018 Share Posted March 7, 2018 Is it my imagination, or can I just about see 'FERODO BRAKE SHOES' on this bridge in Bridgend, South Wales? https://www.google.com/maps/@51.4952507,-3.5724255,3a,75y,304.59h,86.96t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s3HUOm1mt8j00mW-nHPdHdw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 Ian Morgan Hampshire Hi I read that as 'Ferodo Brake Linings'. Makes sense as that covers most brake friction materials- shoes, pads etc. And yes I do all my own car maintenance! Regards Chris Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted March 7, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 7, 2018 Hi I read that as 'Ferodo Brake Linings'. Makes sense as that covers most brake friction materials- shoes, pads etc. And yes I do all my own car maintenance! Regards Chris How many cars used pads - implying disc brakes - in the era when these signs were being painted? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coppercap Posted March 7, 2018 Share Posted March 7, 2018 How many cars used pads - implying disc brakes - in the era when these signs were being painted? Quite a lot. Disc brakes have certainly been fitted on many of the smaller family cars since the early 1960s. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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