THINGS YOU DON'T SEE ANYMORE (Part 1)
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keyholekate
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Jogon wrote: "Doing a Genie"on mischief or bonfire night (emptying contents of many bangers onto dry ground and lighting it whilst group of lads huddled over it, whoosh etc, eyebrows, lungs, temporary loss of vision, oh happy days). Yes I remember my brothers doing that. I used to like those coloured matches especially the green flamed ones. I liked them in the kind of way that you used to look through the coloured tray in a box of chocolates. . I must have been a funny kid lol.
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String o' beads
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Uno Hoo
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Geordie-exile wrote: Leodian wrote: I miss those short indicators that used to pop out on either the left or right of the car to indicate which way the car was going to turn. Trafficators. My father had a Morris 1000 with trafficators. I suggested they were outdated and drivers expected to see flashing indicators. His response was, "when West Yorkshire buses get flashers fitted, I will!"The inevitable happened: One night he was attempting a right turn in Calverley, and was rear-ended (not seriously) by, wait for it, a West Yorkshire bus. The very next day the car was at Cyril Holdsworth's garage in Rodley for flashers to be fitted!The first factory-fitted flashing indicators on Morris 1000s were half-hearted efforts - the mechanism was on the front and rear sidelight bulbs, so the effect was red flashing at the rear, white at the front. Not very effective; a prime example of cost cutting.Rolls-Royce went to the other extreme whereby the twin amber foglamps at the front were wired to become the flashers. The effect was like Flamborough lighthouse!
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BillyBritvic
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Geordie-exile wrote: Leodian wrote: I miss those short indicators that used to pop out on either the left or right of the car to indicate which way the car was going to turn. Trafficators. i think they were called semaphore indicators, a lot of my dads cars had them when I was a youngen. He once had an Austin 7 Ruby saloon that had these, except when you went round a left corner the right one used to flap out and vice versa. I remember him having an old car fitted with the teddy bears ears type of indicators on the roof!! oh happy simple days.
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jdbythesea
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Keep Left bollards that actually say "KEEP LEFT" and No Entry signs that say "NO ENTRY" and Give Way signs that say "GIVE WAY": the English language seems to have all but disappeared from the Highway Code.Remember "MAJOR ROAD AHEAD"? Where did all the major roads go? I'm sure they're still around somewhere. JD
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Jogon
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uno hootangent------------------>Although you DONT SEE 'EM ANY MOREwell worth a couple of hours with a pot o' teahttp://www.amazon.co.uk/Top-Gear-Dad-Had-Those ... 572&sr=1-1
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BLAKEY
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Cars with a "trick" lighting switch until you knew what was what. Proudly out for a spin in my first ever car - a 1934 Standard 9 which cost £25 from a fearfully posh student in the richest part of Ben Rhydding and of which ALL components were "very good for the year" - I took a young lady to Harrogate in the evening. After two coffees, which I could not afford after the enormous outlay on the car, dusk fell and it was time to go back to Ilkley. The Standard started OK - after all the battery and the starter motor were "very good for the year" - and I switched on the side lights - unbelievable but in the late 1950s no-one used headlights under street lighting in built up areas. Well, I thought I switched on the sidelights but there was nothing doing. I was horrified and wondered what on earth we were going to do - so turned the switch another notch and the sidelights came on. Yes, it was one of those older arrangements with a four position switch :- OFF Winter charge, OFF Summer charge, SIDE, HEAD. Phew, what a relief. The car gave me years of faithful service for very little outlay and I loved it - leafy Surrey registration number was BPE 405 and it was immediately named "BEEPY" by the lass on that first evening trip. Happy days.
There's nothing like keeping the past alive - it makes us relieved to reflect that any bad times have gone, and happy to relive all the joyful and fascinating experiences of our own and other folks' earlier days.