How about a 'period' classics pictures thread

[hidetheelephants]

manorcom said:

Talking about trucks and lorries, can anyone confirm the make of this unfortunate lorry from 1950 Merthyr Tydfil accident, Is it a Crossley?:



Keith [UK]

Looks like a WD Bedford, probably war surplus; wiki says a Bedford OY.

Edit; it's probably an OXD, short wheelbase general service.

Edited by hidetheelephants on Friday 19th August 19:20

[Hugo a Gogo]

viscountdallara said:

Tax was due in February 1997, so possibly a garage queen or exported hopefully !

do they still show up as needing tax now they don't need tax (IYKWIM)?

[iSore]

[RichB]

Best place for them!

[iSore]

Oh I don't know..........

The LHD oval window Beetle would be worth a few coins now.

[RichB]

iSore said:

Oh I don't know..........

The LHD oval window Beetle would be worth a few coins now.

It's those Vauxhalls I have an aversion to.

[Mercky]

Derventio said:

aeropilot said:

I think the bike in the b&w shots is not the same as the colour ones, headlight nacelle is slightly different between the two, so your Dad's memory is spot on for the early one being a 3TA and the blue one being a 5TA.

Definitely different bikes. There is about 10 years between the colour and the monochrome photos.

Looks like an early Honda Cub in the background of the picture showing my mums bike. Pretty glad we no longer have to show a numberplate over the front mudguard. God help any pedestrian if you hit them!

Not sure what the red moped is behind my dad, other than it obviously being a Honda. Any Ideas?

Its a Honda PC50

[Dr Interceptor]

iSore said:

Oh I don't know..........

The LHD oval window Beetle would be worth a few coins now.

Sunroof model too...

[yellowjack]

hidetheelephants said:

manorcom said:

Talking about trucks and lorries, can anyone confirm the make of this unfortunate lorry from 1950 Merthyr Tydfil accident, Is it a Crossley?:



Keith [UK]

Looks like a WD Bedford, probably war surplus; wiki says a Bedford OY.

Edit; it's probably an OXD, short wheelbase general service.

Edited by hidetheelephants on Friday 19th August 19:20

Truck, GS, 4x2, 30-cwt - Bedford OXD, by the looks of it.

[droopsnoot]

Hugo a Gogo said:

viscountdallara said:

Tax was due in February 1997, so possibly a garage queen or exported hopefully !

do they still show up as needing tax now they don't need tax (IYKWIM)?

You still have to renew VED even if the vehicle is exempt, if that's what you meant. It's just free.

[manorcom]

Guys, thanks for the Bedford truck ID.

I thought it about time we had a Tramathon?:

1907 First elecric powered Tram in Erdington, Birmingham


The Fox & Goose, Washwood Heath Birmingham around 1933:


Coventry Road Birmingham around 1934:


Elecric Bus Acocks Green around 1937:


Birmingham around 1938:


Undated Hockley Birmingham:


Undated Birmingham:


Ditto:


Ditto:


Dated December 1950 Birmingham:


And lastly Whitmore Reams Birmingham 1960's:

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

Brill!

[tilley441]

A Few random Isle of man shots from 1957, I brought a new scanner so thought I would try it out, not bad results considering the transparencies are from 1957 and on AGFA film.

Isle of man 1957 by Tilley441©

Isle of man 1957 by Tilley441©

Isle Of Man TT 1957 Bike 51 by Tilley441©

[cjb44]

tilley441 said:

A Few random Isle of man shots from 1957, I brought a new scanner so thought I would try it out, not bad results considering the transparencies are from 1957 and on AGFA film.

Isle of man 1957 by Tilley441©

Isle of man 1957 by Tilley441©

Isle Of Man TT 1957 Bike 51 by Tilley441©

Wonderful dustbin fairing, I remember them well in a high side wind!

[Mark Benson]

manorcom said:

And lastly Whitmore Reams Birmingham 1960's:

Great pictures, just one point. Whitmore Reans is in Wolverhampton, I had a girlfriend at Wolves Poly in the 1980s who lived on Clifford St; the same view today on Google Street View(minus a couple of buildings).

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.5939354,-2.14549...

[hidetheelephants]

manorcom said:

Guys, thanks for the Bedford truck ID.

I thought it about time we had a Tramathon?:

1907 First elecric powered Tram in Erdington, Birmingham



Coventry Road Birmingham around 1934:

It should probably be compulsory for tram drivers to have heroic whiskers, a bowler hat, gloves and a well-fastened mackintosh. Bus inspectors on the other hand definitely benefit from peaked caps and greatcoats, unlike the fluorescent tabard-wearing scruffbags you see loitering at bus stops these days.

[manorcom]

Now here is a cracking picture, but I can't remember where I found it:

[hidetheelephants]

The tin hats suggest despatch riders, but the garb, the variety of different bikes and their number plates, the general chromeyness and lack of khaki drab suggests a dad's army or postwar volunteer reserve/territorial unit of some kind.

[aeropilot]

hidetheelephants said:

The tin hats suggest despatch riders, but the garb, the variety of different bikes and their number plates, the general chromeyness and lack of khaki drab suggests a dad's army or postwar volunteer reserve/territorial unit of some kind.

I'd say it was early war period (late 1939/early 1940) Civil Defence Service DR's.

Great photo.

Number plates seem to be predominately midlands issue around 37/38.

Edited by aeropilot on Tuesday 23 August 20:32

[Johnspex]

Flat rear tyre on the one on the extreme left.