Couple of cars for ID?

[sim72]

Anyone got a definitive answer for what the two cars behind the Viva are? Photo apparently taken c.1973 during fuel rationing.

[finlo]

Austin /Morris 1100/1300 and Ashley Sportiva.

[sim72]

Thanks, I thought the first one but had no idea on the second!

[wag2]

Cleveland Discol eh. When alcohol in petrol was supposed to be a good thing.

[iSore]

The 1100 is a Mark 1. I bet it's Connaught green.

[Boosted LS1]

Crikey, what a sad looking bunch of cars.

[alfaspecial]

Boosted LS1 said:

Crikey, what a sad looking bunch of cars.

Looking at the age of the cars it could be a queue for fuel in the 70's. The days of the energy crisis. So it would probably be the owners who were really pissed-off!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970s_energy_crisis
I remember in around 1973 my Dad would always try to keep his car full of petrol ..... he'd always fill the tank (and a couple of jerry cans) the day before 'The Budget'.
Funny that, no one 'bothers' about the price of petrol nowadays..... My Dad moaned when it reach £1 a gallon (22 pence per litre!)

[Allan L]

sim72 said:

Photo apparently taken c.1973 during fuel rationing.

We didn't have fuel rationing in 1973, although we had the coupons ready for its introduction.
Queues like that were because the supply was unreliable and the price kept going up, so when a filling station had fuel it also had a queue. It was when the price was going to go over £1/gallon that pricing by the litre was introduced, as the electro-mechanical price system of the time could not cope with a unit price of 1 or more. Nobody had foreseen that the price would triple in such a short time.