How about a 'period' classics pictures thread

[uk66fastback]

ATTAK Z said:

This should be good ... may I start please

1) Nash Metropolitan
2) '55 Chevy (left of the Nash)

[shoestring7]

Hugh Jarse said:

Dapster said:

I like the Volvo 145 parked next to the Jensen. Can't see any other foreign metal.

Might be a BMW 2002 parked in the middle of the upper deck, reversed in.
Might be a Merc reverserd in a the end of the upper deck.
Volvos had lots of UK parts then.

Loving those snow pictures, and remembered about the frozen milk.

Looks like a Neue Classe BMW 2000 over the P5B

SS7

[The Don of Croy]

aeropilot said:

Vertical parking complex somewhere in the USA, late 1950's

I was very surprised to learn they built something similar in Woolwich in 1961 - the autostacker. Lasted about 24 months. Only cost several hundred thousand pounds...in 1961 money.

You can see it at the end of this newsreel;

http://www.britishpathe.com/video/princess-opens-f...

[RichB]

There was something similar in Horseferry Road, Victoria. I used to use it back in the mid-70s. Don't know when it was built though. Probably mid-60s?

[chevy55]

The Don of Croy said:

I was very surprised to learn they built something similar in Woolwich in 1961 - the autostacker. Lasted about 24 months. Only cost several hundred thousand pounds...in 1961 money.

You can see it at the end of this newsreel;

http://www.britishpathe.com/video/princess-opens-f...

Interseting video, my wife lived in one of those blocks when I met her, they were sooo cold in the winter, they had electric underfloor heating that you couldn't afford to run.
As for the autostacker, it was never properly used as a car got stuck in there and they couldn't get it down, it stayed there for a couple of years and eventually they pulled the lot down.

[manorcom]

A few more winter pics, they sure are hard to find.
1963:



1963 Abingdon:



1967, great pic of man on motorcycle, dig the hat:



1968 Birmingham, more deep snow:



1968 Erdington, Birmingham:



Undated, great pic:



1974:

[eccles]

The one with the chap on the motorcycle is Norwich.

[uk66fastback]

I feel I should know where the Abingdon one is as I lived there for nine years ('76-'85), but I think that bit went early 70s for the one-way system (which I think bizarrely is now two-way again) ...

[hidetheelephants]

I think the middle and right of the 3 in the foreground are Ford model Ts, but what the other two are needs more google fu or 1920s car beardage than I can manage. The picture is supposed to be 1925.

[OvalOwl]

manorcom said:

A few more winter pics, they sure are hard to find.

1967, great pic of man on motorcycle, dig the hat:

Must be a motorised telegram boy, you can pick out his cap badge under the snow. I think he's mounted on a Puch moped and I bet he can't feel his hands!

[Etretat]

OvalOwl said:

manorcom said:

A few more winter pics, they sure are hard to find.

1967, great pic of man on motorcycle, dig the hat:

Must be a motorised telegram boy, you can pick out his cap badge under the snow. I think he's mounted on a Puch moped and I bet he can't feel his hands!

Too early for a Puch IIAC
Have looked at PO bikes, Raleigh Supermatic/ Runabout/RM5 none of which look quite the same

http://www.realclassic.co.uk/postie06121300.html

[finlo]

BSA Bantam was the GPO's weapon of choice back then was it not?

[daveenty]

finlo said:

BSA Bantam was the GPO's weapon of choice back then was it not?

Don't think it's a Bantam, looking at the chap's feet they look like they're positioned on a pedal crank so I'd also go for a moped of some description.

Mobylette possibly?

[aeropilot]

Somewhere in South America, very late 50's or early 60's.

Loading a Studebaker Commander into a war surplus Curtis C-46 Commando.

Imagine the elf n safety mob seeing something like this today

[manorcom]

Snap....
I think Birmingham airport 1953:

[finlo]

Wonder if that's the one that crashed into Winter hill.

[Carsie]

Kinda stuck in the mud






.

[Willhire89]

hidetheelephants said:

I think the middle and right of the 3 in the foreground are Ford model Ts, but what the other two are needs more google fu or 1920s car beardage than I can manage. The picture is supposed to be 1925.

It looks to me like a brand new (in '25) Bullnose Morris Oxford Tourer

[hidetheelephants]

Willhire89 said:

hidetheelephants said:

I think the middle and right of the 3 in the foreground are Ford model Ts, but what the other two are needs more google fu or 1920s car beardage than I can manage. The picture is supposed to be 1925.

It looks to me like a brand new (in '25) Bullnose Morris Oxford Tourer

A quick google makes me agree with you; can anyone identify the 4th car in the background? Or agree/disagree with my tentative T identification?

[Willhire89]

hidetheelephants said:

Willhire89 said:

hidetheelephants said:

I think the middle and right of the 3 in the foreground are Ford model Ts, but what the other two are needs more google fu or 1920s car beardage than I can manage. The picture is supposed to be 1925.

It looks to me like a brand new (in '25) Bullnose Morris Oxford Tourer

A quick google makes me agree with you; can anyone identify the 4th car in the background? Or agree/disagree with my tentative T identification?

Definitely T's - slightly different ages given the windscreens

No real idea on the landaulet - Sunbeam maybe?