A 'period' classics pictures thread (Mk II)

[Dapster]

aeropilot said:

Hugo a Gogo said:

RATATTAK said:

P5BNij said:

Fort William, 1973....

Simca and a Maxi ???

ETA
Land Rover, Escort Van, a Loco and a bus

Edited by RATATTAK on Tuesday 3rd August 20:59

And a sea mine?

Yep.
I can remember seeing them in most seaside towns when on holiday in the 60's and 70's.

What's the pale blue thing behind the Land Rover? ADO16 1100/1300?

[Tyre Smoke]

RichB said:

CharlesdeGaulle said:

RATATTAK said:

P5BNij said:

Fort William, 1973....

Simca and a Maxi ???

D'uh. Bus and a train, loser.

That's not a train it's a Sulzer Type 2. There may or may not be a train behind it.

And a WW2 mine collecting money for the Seaman's Mission. Seen all round the seaside resorts for decades after the war.

[Hugo a Gogo]

Dapster said:

aeropilot said:

Hugo a Gogo said:

RATATTAK said:

P5BNij said:

Fort William, 1973....

Simca and a Maxi ???

ETA
Land Rover, Escort Van, a Loco and a bus

Edited by RATATTAK on Tuesday 3rd August 20:59

And a sea mine?

Yep.
I can remember seeing them in most seaside towns when on holiday in the 60's and 70's.

What's the pale blue thing behind the Land Rover? ADO16 1100/1300?

I want to say Hillman Minx just because the front arch seems to be very close to the front of the car, and also because I used to have a pale blue one

[sjabrown]

P5BNij said:

Fort William, 1973....

Great colour photo. It's a shame so much of Fort William is, these days, grubby as you drive past on the dually built along where the railway used to run.
The Simca estate looks very lovely. I checked the ever so unreliable howmanyleft thinking there'd be no Simca 1501s left however I see there are a few!

[Zener]

dandarez said:

Turbobanana said:

Adrian Evans, Davrian Cars.

Sorry, bit late in reply. So, before I get some shuteye... At last!

And to those who said Imp, yep, it's an Imp engine mounted at the front (nobody seems to know how the Adrian did it (this is 1964 remember) and what tf the transmission was - did he use an Imp transaxle, if so, how? Plus the twin Stromberg carb Sport version of the Imp had not even launched, yes Paul Emery, Vic Derrington and others were offering carb conversions to chuck the single Solex over the wall, but invariably offerings were either single Weber, single Stromberg or twin etc, but Adrian, he was different, he used twin SUs!

The man was a f genius! He's up there with the best of them.
And yes, his car was an Austin Special, he raced it many times inc some other specials (see pic at bot.).


Here's his sister, Vicki, sat in that actual car back in the day (note - tow car, an Imp!).


The very, very underrated man himself at the wheel of a race Davrian.


Adrian in another special, he's racing car No. 7 in this shot.

That race Davrian is a looker, when I was a kid in a London suburb one of my pals had a school friend who's dad raced these competitively cant recall the name though

[P5BNij]

sjabrown said:

P5BNij said:

Fort William, 1973....

Great colour photo. It's a shame so much of Fort William is, these days, grubby as you drive past on the dually built along where the railway used to run.
The Simca estate looks very lovely. I checked the ever so unreliable howmanyleft thinking there'd be no Simca 1501s left however I see there are a few!

I haven’t been since 1983 but even so it was such a pity that the original characterful station was demolished in 1975.

[RATATTAK]

Hugo a Gogo said:

Dapster said:

aeropilot said:

Hugo a Gogo said:

RATATTAK said:

P5BNij said:

Fort William, 1973....

Simca and a Maxi ???

ETA
Land Rover, Escort Van, a Loco and a bus

Edited by RATATTAK on Tuesday 3rd August 20:59

And a sea mine?

Yep.
I can remember seeing them in most seaside towns when on holiday in the 60's and 70's.

What's the pale blue thing behind the Land Rover? ADO16 1100/1300?

I want to say Hillman Minx just because the front arch seems to be very close to the front of the car, and also because I used to have a pale blue one

Yep, I'll go with that ... wheels match for a Minx too, cream with a chrome hubcap, no fancy trims

[bigothunter]

CharlesdeGaulle said:

RATATTAK said:

P5BNij said:

Fort William, 1973....

Simca and a Maxi ???

D'uh. Bus and a train, loser.

Is that bus an AEC Reliance with Duple body? Should I fetch my anorak?

[bigothunter]

Tyre Smoke said:

And a WW2 mine collecting money for the Seaman's Mission. Seen all round the seaside resorts for decades after the war.

Those WW2 mines added character to resorts rather like our countryside pillboxes and Sherman tanks which still reside as monuments in some Belgian towns. Reminders of 'recent' conflict in Europe.

How did mines fall from favour and where did they go? Just scrapped?

[Escort3500]

bigothunter said:

Tyre Smoke said:

And a WW2 mine collecting money for the Seaman's Mission. Seen all round the seaside resorts for decades after the war.

Those WW2 mines added character to resorts rather like our countryside pillboxes and Sherman tanks which still reside as monuments in some Belgian towns. Reminders of 'recent' conflict in Europe.

How did mines fall from favour and where did they go? Just scrapped?

As a kid, I can remember a lot of them at seaside resorts use for fundraising by RNLI etc. Always looked pretty corroded despite layers of gloss paint, so I suppose a lot just rusted away.

[P5BNij]

[Yertis]

P5BNij said:

My favourite disused railway station. It's been a car park for about a third of its life.

[P5BNij]

Yertis said:

P5BNij said:

My favourite disused railway station. It's been a car park for about a third of its life.

Been down there a few times to have a sniff about, a lovely station indeed. One of our retired drivers started his footplate career at Bath Green Park Shed as an engine cleaner.

Paddington, 1960.... it looks like a scene from 'The Blue Lamp', filmed just twelve years earlier....



Hillmorton Road in Rugby, sometime between January '66 when the D plate came in and May '69 when Rugby Central station closed....

Edited by P5BNij on Thursday 5th August 16:57

[bigothunter]

P5BNij said:

Paddington, 1960.... it looks like a scene from 'The Blue Lamp', filmed just twelve years earlier....

In 1955, Barclay Perkins merged with rival London brewer Courage. Not clear when Barclay's Beers brand was dropped but it was certainly gone by 1962 when the last trolleybuses ran in London.

Photo above looks older than 1960. Are you sure of the date?

[TarquinMX5]

P5BNij said:

Each of the first three rows contains a Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud (one might be a Bentley); I didn't realise that they were that 'common back then.

[dontlookdown]

Tyre Smoke said:

RichB said:

CharlesdeGaulle said:

RATATTAK said:

P5BNij said:

Fort William, 1973....

Simca and a Maxi ???

D'uh. Bus and a train, loser.

That's not a train it's a Sulzer Type 2. There may or may not be a train behind it.

And a WW2 mine collecting money for the Seaman's Mission. Seen all round the seaside resorts for decades after the war.

Shipwrecked Mariners collection boxes. There are still a few left - map below if you can just post a link

https://shipwreckedmariners.org.uk/who-we-are/wher...

[Lily the Pink]

TarquinMX5 said:

P5BNij said:

Each of the first three rows contains a Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud (one might be a Bentley); I didn't realise that they were that 'common back then.

There is also a Princess in each of the first three rows. I assume this is Aust services ?

[P5BNij]

bigothunter said:

P5BNij said:

Paddington, 1960.... it looks like a scene from 'The Blue Lamp', filmed just twelve years earlier....

In 1955, Barclay Perkins merged with rival London brewer Courage. Not clear when Barclay's Beers brand was dropped but it was certainly gone by 1962 when the last trolleybuses ran in London.

Photo above looks older than 1960. Are you sure of the date?

It could be a few years earlier but the file name said 1960 so I went with that. This area of Paddington and its surrounding didn't really change that much until the footings for the Westway started to appear in 1967/68. I've just remembered something actually, in the 1967 film 'Bedazzled' there's a glimpse of the demolition work around Westbourne Park when Peter Cook and Dudley Moore walk along the row of old shops and terraced houses that used to back onto the GW mainline.

Apologies for the lack of any useful details in these pics, I've just recently ditched my old and much troubled PC for a new one and having saved all my images off the old one I've been trawling through them looking for stuff worthy (hopefully) of this thread


Here's another of Bath Green Park station, probably taken in the early '70s I'd say....

[tog]

Bath Green Station became a Sainsbury's in the early 1980s.



https://www.sainsburyarchive.org.uk/catalogue/sear...

[P5BNij]

Posted elsewhere but worth dropping it in here too - Kensington Olympia motorail terminal on 5th April 1966....