A 'period' classics pictures thread (Mk III)
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tight fart said:
Foggy or misty background so I can't quite work out whereabouts that is (or was) but guessing its pax parking rather than staff parking, as there's at least 2 old yanks parked up, so likely US servicemen perhaps, although they usually travelled by USAFMAC rather than scheduled airlines back then, so more likely US embassy staff?Speed 3 said:
Milkyway said:
only. 
Can’t remember the last time I topped up oil on any of our cars, must be 20 years ago.
(Struggling to remember which of my cars last received one)..
Edited by Milkyway on Friday 19th April 16:20
2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:
Speed 3 said:
Milkyway said:
only. Can’t remember the last time I topped up oil on any of our cars, must be 20 years ago.
Mind.....the engine was basically a 1950s Buick
Speed 3 said:
Strangely enough my S6 didn't and that was doing about 2000 miles pa. That said, trying to measure the oil level on a Tuscan with the dry sump was a mission in itself.
My speed 6 engined car never went far enough for me to use any oil (Good MPG too....on the back of a low loader mostly )GTRene said:
aeropilot said:
GTRene said:
Big Ben and vintage cars, Westminster, London, England
Lovely absence of road markings and street furniture/pedestrian bollards and crap that festoon the roads today.Interesting to compare the buildings though in todays scene, and what looks to the eye as being these old or original parts of buildings are anything but, as they are not in the photo from 50+ years ago.
Appears to have been built with a cupola and mansard; here it is in 1897, when it was the LNWR offices:
And another view, also in 1897, without the Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee regalia:
And another - 1897 was a popular year for photography
And another, undated:
The old roof was still there in 1938:
By 1949, it had been replaced with the rather disappointing flat mansard:
In fact, it was already there in 1946.
Now, bomb damage was mentioned. The Palace of Westminster was definitely hit 14 times during the war. But it looks like this loft extension pre-dates all that; here it is in an image credited as "probably taken in May 1940" an obviously during war time:
So sometime between 1938 and 1940, the roof was swapped. I haven't pinned it down more than that, but it seems that bomb damage wasn't the motivator in this case (AFAIK Westminster wasn't hit until 1941).
The roof was restored in the late 1980s as Phase 1 of the work on that plot which included Westminster underground, the Jubilee Line extension and, eventually, Portcullis House.
nice, so they rebuild it as it was in say the 1800++ years.
its almost a bit looking like those video about Amerika and the 'old world' before them, also great lovely interesting beautifully build buildings and almost no one knows who made them (those in Amerika from the 1800++ years they say) then later the people who go about the buildings say (to those who ask about them) they build it in say (bad example) 1860 and 1861 it was ready... but that could never be true with no roads/cars/trucks with what they said how they did it, also documents about it are 'gone' and trust their specialist/scientist ;-)
its almost a bit looking like those video about Amerika and the 'old world' before them, also great lovely interesting beautifully build buildings and almost no one knows who made them (those in Amerika from the 1800++ years they say) then later the people who go about the buildings say (to those who ask about them) they build it in say (bad example) 1860 and 1861 it was ready... but that could never be true with no roads/cars/trucks with what they said how they did it, also documents about it are 'gone' and trust their specialist/scientist ;-)
ah here some example, many many video's about 'the lunch break' its a great series very interesting, I've seen a few.
@skwdenyer, edit, safer and a bit against Big Brother to follow that on Rumble, I saw they are also there >>
https://rumble.com/c/MYLUNCHBREAK
@skwdenyer, edit, safer and a bit against Big Brother to follow that on Rumble, I saw they are also there >>
https://rumble.com/c/MYLUNCHBREAK
Edited by GTRene on Friday 19th April 22:47
And no data loggers 
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