Black Country Blues

[Coombe Barton]

Tackyglos?

[PaternosterRow]

Hi 2ManySpams

 

Got a load on an excel doc.  Got a few years ago off the net for a little micro layout.  Some gooduns - Benson Hedges, Coke and a Mini advert etc.  Just click on them and resize to suit etc.  Give us an email address and I'll attach and send.  Got a great one of that old 'Labour Isn't Working' advert of the late 70's.

 

Regards

 

Mike

Edited December 22, 2012 by PaternosterRow

[RANGERS]

Those Commers were ten a penny when I started my apprenticeship with BT in 1981, they were hideous things to travel in, even more so if you happened to be the poor sod bullied into driving it for any great distance. The party trick with them was to switch the engine off but leave it in gear whilst coasting down the road, and after a few yards, turn the ignition on again. Having mechanical fuel pumps in those days, there would be a flow of unburnt petrol and air mixture which would gravitate through the engine and into the exhaust, turning the ignition on again ignited it all. Best case would be a bang which would scare the hell out of passing pedestrians or cyclists; next stage would be a more powerful explosion which would blow a hole in the silencer (we managed to blow holes in the baffles of the silencer on one, sounded like a V8 Chevy after that!). The final, and undoubtedly the piece-de-resistance, would result in any build up of soot in the engine and exhaust being burnt in one go, quite a spectacular pyrotechnical display. Trouble with this one, it could do some pretty serious damage to the engine, burnt valve seals and guides, even bent valves, which earned us a severe bollocking from the MT guys on one occasion (honest mate, it just stalled and when we restarted it...)

[Siberian Snooper]

Stubby: Prince of Porcelain

 

We can't wait (some of us are already dancing).

 

Best, Pete.

 

 

Hi Pete

 

Would that be tap dancing, perchance?

 

 

SS

[Siberian Snooper]

Is this it ?

 

Wet Car.jpg

 

 

They didn't make much of a job of undersealing it, the water got in!!

[Worsdell forever]

Some photos just for Stubby, taken last year while the hotel at work was being built. 

 

 

 

[wombatofludham]

Unfortunately out of stock - and will be for some time, if it ever comes back, I understand.

You're right, it seems to have sold out at all retailers including obscure places like the Black Country Bugle shop and Teet Blackcountry Teeshirts!

 

I wonder if the BC Museum shop (which doesn't have an online facility yet) might have one?

[Stubby47]

Far too clean, and the plumbing would vey strange, not to mention there's not much privacy.

 

What sort of hotel is it ? Roman ?

[Indomitable026]

 

Tackyglos?

Yes indeed, i have a selection of gloss paints in the garage that never quite dry.....

[2ManySpams]

Just got the road over rail bridge completed enough to do a trial fit in its proposed location. Clearances checked and ok. Looks nice, even if I do say so myself! 

[2ManySpams]

Moving on to the road over canal bridge next, then a nice bit of brick clad walls to follow. 

[Indomitable026]

Todays work;

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Time to finish - me thinks

 

[Shadow]

That's a funny shaped glass to put blackcurrent squash in. 

[Indomitable026]

 

That's a funny shaped glass to put blackcurrent squash in. 

Close!

 

It's a 'Rosato Melograno' which is Pomegranate and Martini Rosato.

 

Apparently is quite hard at the moment getting me out of that railway room!!!!

[Coombe Barton]

 

Apparently is quite hard at the moment getting me out of that railway room!!!!

Enthusiasm for the project, secret stash of the illustrated substance, or just too ****** to move? (my asterisks)

[Indomitable026]

 

Enthusiasm for the project, secret stash of the illustrated substance, or just too ****** to move? (my asterisks)

All of the above

[wagonbasher]

Although I was only about 10 in the period there are a few ad / public campaigns I remember although what made its way onto bill boards I am not sure.

 

I think we were backing britain - buy british

We were going to work on an egg and I can remember an Hard boiled egg in a cup

Whach out there was a humphrey about - little red and white straws that would drink any milk the blue tits had left

Frank Muir was a deffinate fruit and nut case and some bird was always on the telly eating flake

 

One thing I do remember on bill boards was Lambs Navy Rum with a rather scantily clad girl on a beach

 

What about follow the bear- heineken, and when were we telling Sid ?

 

I have found a number when viewing pictures of buses.

 

There seams a number of flicker contributers that have shots with bill boards in the back ground .  cant find away to link them or even replicate the search but they are in there somewhere

 

Andy

[Worsdell forever]

Although we haven't had any electricity today from about midday until just before 10.30 tonight I have managed to do a bit, I've glued up the axles and rubbed down the tyres on the little Leyland all by candle light, 5 of them! I'd fitted the mirrors, wipers and grab handles and weathered it last night. I also have a load planned for this one.

 

 

I'm ready for the next part of the project, I called into Peter's Spares in Middlesbrough yesterday and came away with a bag full of cars... Just a few jobs on lorries and vans to finish first.

 

Edited December 23, 2012 by Worsdell forever

[2ManySpams]

Very nice Paul. 

[ELTEL]

 Yes indeed, i have a selection of gloss paints in the garage that never quite dry.....

I remember unpacking and erecting Treneglos with wet paint with old gringo & 2manyspams in France some years back.

[Stubby47]

Being not too far from Oxford, would there be be some Morris 1100 / Austin 1300 cars around ?

 

Plus there were lots of older cars too, Rover P100, Singers, Riley/Elf, Hillman Imps, etc.

[28XX]

The BL 1100 / 1300 were made at Longbridge, which is even closer.  They had been superseded by the Allegro in '73, (some old stock wasn't registered until '74) but were the chariot of choice for the hardworking family guy on a tight budget.  I don't know how much traffic you will need on BCB, but by their utter mundane-ness they would really suit the melancholy aura I think you are trying to create.  Minix ones available on EBay.

 

Rovers and the booted variants of the Mini, less likely, they tended to haunt Sutton Coldfield or Penn, rather than BC.  Singers, still many pre-Arrow series about (my mates mum had one).  Imps were still in production, till '76.

 

Edited, having checked car production dates:  28xx

Edited January 9, 2013 by 28XX

[Indomitable026]

 

I remember unpacking and erecting Treneglos with wet paint with old gringo & 2manyspams in France some years back.

That 'Treneglos' green is still wet now - i'm sure.

[28XX]

'The Law and their order', an Austin Allegro in panda car guise pictured in a dodgy bit of sarf Lahndan.

[Mark Forrest]

Although I was only about 10 in the period there are a few ad / public campaigns I remember although what made its way onto bill boards I am not sure.

There are a few of those you list which I remember, which (since I'm the baby of our group) would mean they were still around late '70s or early '80s

 

 

I have found a number when viewing pictures of buses.

 

There seams a number of flicker contributers that have shots with bill boards in the back ground .  cant find away to link them or even replicate the search but they are in there somewhere

Click "Share" (above the photo), then either copy & paste the link in the "grab the link" box: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurasik2011/5539263553/

Or, if the user has allowed it, "Grab the HTML/BB code", select the BB code radio button and copy & paste:

Pipers Row, Wolverhampton, April 1980 by Lady Wulfrun, on Flickr