RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted January 24, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 24, 2020 5 hours ago, Sidecar Racer said: Another 1950's film for the car spotters . I noticed the 'nicotine yellow' bands painted around some of the lamp posts. Could these be the remnants of the blackout precautions? (white paint turned yellow.) I didn't see much in the way of bombsites living in an area of post-war developement, but when I visited my maternal grandparents house in St. Leonards there were a couple in their street. I discovered later that one in particular was the result of the Baedecker Raids. Another more enduring wartime vestage between St. Leonards and Bexhill was the tank traps built at the top of the beach parallel to the railway line. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted January 24, 2020 Share Posted January 24, 2020 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
great central Posted January 24, 2020 Share Posted January 24, 2020 3 minutes ago, Rugd1022 said: That's just wrong 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockershovel Posted January 24, 2020 Share Posted January 24, 2020 5 hours ago, boxbrownie said: Just another time traveller, don’t worry about it...... I seem to remember they were branded State Of New York? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 Random burst of nostalgia found lurking in the hard drive, does anyone know how many of these fine looking Scimitar GTEs were built... 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Nick C Posted January 27, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 27, 2020 1 hour ago, Rugd1022 said: Random burst of nostalgia found lurking in the hard drive, does anyone know how many of these fine looking Scimitar GTEs were built... 4,311 SE5s, 5105 SE5As. Wikipedia knows all! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Nick C Posted January 27, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 27, 2020 Although, with a C suffix (1965), wouldn't that be a GT SE4 rather than a GTE? In which case it suggests 296... 1 3 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BernardTPM Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 (edited) Is that actually a GTE? Looking through the windows suggests it's the coupe. Edited January 27, 2020 by BernardTPM 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium boxbrownie Posted January 27, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 27, 2020 2 hours ago, Rugd1022 said: Random burst of nostalgia found lurking in the hard drive, does anyone know how many of these fine looking Scimitar GTEs were built... Too many 1 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted January 27, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 27, 2020 Some of my dads old pics I uploaded to photobucket many years back, not took any notice of the cars before but they fit in this thread nicely crewe depot mid you look closely in this pic the 37 had just derailed on the points, the lead bogie is in the dirt! 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 43 minutes ago, BernardTPM said: Is that actually a GTE? Looking through the windows suggests it's the coupe. I thought the Coupe was also called a GTE...! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 Laira in 1975, photo c/o Ben Derby.... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BernardTPM Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 (edited) 3 hours ago, Rugd1022 said: I thought the Coupe was also called a GTE...! No, but the transformation of the sales was such that Reliant legally protected the GTE moniker. Edited January 27, 2020 by BernardTPM 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 Rozzers / cozzers / Lilly law / Old Bill ahoy.... a mixture of Manchester, Liverpool, Wrexham, Nuneaton and Metropolitan area Mini / Mini Cooper S panda / patrol cars... 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJS1977 Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 1 hour ago, Rugd1022 said: The copper with the cap looks like a very young Oscar Blaketon(!) although of course Oscar wouldn't have been that young when the Mini came out.... 1 hour ago, Rugd1022 said: I presume the Moke is for the Prisoners.... ;-) 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium boxbrownie Posted January 28, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 28, 2020 2 hours ago, Rugd1022 said: Rozzers / cozzers / Lilly law / Old Bill ahoy.... a mixture of Manchester, Liverpool, Wrexham, Nuneaton and Metropolitan area Mini / Mini Cooper S panda / patrol cars... Straight from the cast of Life on Mars 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium boxbrownie Posted January 28, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 28, 2020 Actually thinking about that picture I would not be surprised if that’s just a photo model standing in there, that haircut and those shoes are definitely not 60-70s regulation for beat plod 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 2 minutes ago, boxbrownie said: Straight from the cast of Life on Mars ''It's 1973, it's dinner time and I'm 'avin' 'oops...'' Aldford St, Mayfair in the '40s, the London my maternal Grandparents knew in their '20s... 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium boxbrownie Posted January 28, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 28, 2020 9 minutes ago, Rugd1022 said: ''It's 1973, it's dinner time and I'm 'avin' 'oops...'' Aldford St, Mayfair in the '40s, the London my maternal Grandparents knew in their '20s... And probably taken just opposite the BMW Park Lane now.......bit quieter then. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 7 minutes ago, boxbrownie said: Actually thinking about that picture I would not be surprised if that’s just a photo model standing in there, that haircut and those shoes are definitely not 60-70s regulation for beat plod There's plenty of period footage about showing big hairy coppers looking just like that David! My cousin John was a beat Bobby in the '70s and '80s and looked just like the bloke in that photo. His Dad ended up a high ranking occifer 'oop the north and had a much more sober appearance (I found out only a couple of years ago that he was the arresting officer when Mira Hindley was nicked). 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted January 28, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 28, 2020 My dad’s police car when we lived in Llwyngwril was his own MGB-GT! I seem to remember his ‘official issue’ vehicle was a mini van (this was between 1979 and 1982) 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium boxbrownie Posted January 28, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 28, 2020 3 minutes ago, Rugd1022 said: There's plenty of period footage about showing big hairy coppers looking just like that David! My cousin John was a beat Bobby in the '70s and '80s and looked just like the bloke in that photo. His Dad ended up a high ranking occifer 'oop the north and had a much more sober appearance (I found out only a couple of years ago that he was the arresting officer when Mira Hindley was nicked). You’re most likely correct, before H&S footware etc......thinking about it when I first started work (early 70’s) I was drinking with coppers like that in the local nicks bar, just behind where they had the billiard tables in the gym 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porkscratching Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 Many pubs back then seemed to have a billiard table, often upstairs, one we frequented you had to ask behind the bar to be issued with balls and a couple of cues...obviously they didn't want them left lying around as handy weapons ! Interesting to see the prolific Mini panda cars, the panda's round our way were always Morris Minors.. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted January 28, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 28, 2020 4 hours ago, Rugd1022 said: ''It's 1973, it's dinner time and I'm 'avin' 'oops...'' Aldford St, Mayfair in the '40s, the London my maternal Grandparents knew in their '20s... I can see a rusty Riley straight ahead, an Austin 10 across the road but any thoughts on the cream coloured car on the right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
runs as required Posted January 29, 2020 Share Posted January 29, 2020 Sorry can't help with the cream and green car a rather ungainly looking 2 door '37 Austin 10 with a straight back But also what is the car on the left of the Laira Sulzer pic? Front looks like a Triumph 2000 my dad had, but the back of the glasshouse doesn't look right. dh 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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