I bet it was fun trying to get that out of the non throwaway hankies they used to carry then. (remember them)
Do you remember.
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Cheshire Cat
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My first company car the Princess, I know it's **** but I worked for Leyland Truck and Bus. I think mine was more chocolate coloured.
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Always knew it as the Austin Princess...pretty much everyone did!
But..I found out recently...that really wasn`t the case.!
My pride and joy after passing my test was a brown Triumph Dolomite 1500 HL. Well, I wanted a Stag, and it was as near as I could afford! Had a land Crab once., too, as the family grew.
Saw a vintage Rover 3.5 today. Got us talking about the 2.2, SU Carbs, and fiddling with the points... Happy Days!
They had Hydrogs suspension (like Alegro) and when the pipes burst the car would drop onto the rubber stops and you would have no suspension at all.
Cheshire Cat
Landlord.
And this Alegro was my company car after the Princess, what choice we lucky Leyland employees had.
My sister had a Metro i used to love driving it round the back roads here it stuck to the roads like **** to a blanket.
(This was not it hers was a rust bucket)
(This was not it hers was a rust bucket)
Cheshire Cat
Landlord.
All Leyland cars were rust buckets the Metro was a good car spoiled by rust.
All British family cars were rust buckets back then, Vauxhalls probably the worst.
My mam has a Toyota Corrola donkeys years ago you could hear it rusting when you walked past it.
Remember the ALFA cars back then, great cars but not built to withstand our weather.
Who had a cap pistol?
You'd get tasered if you pulled that out your coat nowadays!
Cheshire Cat
Landlord.
Of course I remember them I had cap guns and we broke off a single cap and put it between two bolts and one nut and threw it so it went bang when it landed. childhood was brilliant in the late 50's early 60's.
We used to do the same by scraping match heads and filling the gap, if one of the bolts threads stripped they used to fly many many feet, we knew how to have fun back in the day and no one lost a finger (i think)
Cheshire Cat
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Do you remember someone Unknown would throw a rope over a tree branch to create a swing. The best ones were over streams or rivers. How we survived still scares me lol.
latchy
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Same here and it was on a party line with a house about 1/4 mile away,We had one in this colour.
Anyone make a throwing arrow? Basically a dart,straight stick,fibreglass was better. You split one end and put some flights in it then whittled a groove around the shaft just under the flights. You then took a length of string with a knot in the end and wrapped the string into the groove,trapping it on the knot then pulled it tight down to the pointy end. You then threw the arrow but kept hold of the string, propelling it into the air. They went "miles"..but were a bit dangerous!
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