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[user 44889]

My oldest car i ever had was a Hillman Huskey... never saw another one. Petrol pump leaked a bit so would have to stop. Ping bonnet and loosen the brass cascalated nut on top of the glass dome to bleed, tighten down and away down the road again. Lol

 

[user 44889]

Remember when this was a common sight

With the price of petrol now.... you could watch their MPG drop like a stone.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

My oldest car i ever had was a Hillman Huskey...

A mates dad had a Hillman Imp.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Southampton Hampshire

A proper back street garage.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Workers here often complain about health and safety rules at work -

 

[Chippy_Tea]

 

[Chippy_Tea]

 

[crescent city Mike]

Why did they use letters as well as numbers?

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Most phone numbers of the day (at least in the US) had exchange names such as Jackson, Vernon, etc. Your number might be JA5-8821 or VE2-9674. As a child in the 1950s, we didn't have a dial phone and relied on a live Operator. Our number, as commanded by my parents to memorize, was 828M. That was before the advent of the dial phone and phone exchanges.

 

[Eskimo John]

I don't recall there being a use for letters on phones in the uk but I do recall seeing them on old black bakerlite phones.
The oldest number I recall was Hemyock 295 - my Aunts farm in Devon and that was a long time go before the exchange was automated.

 

[Victor Churchill]

I don't recall there being a use for letters on phones in the uk but I do recall seeing them on old black bakerlite phones.
The oldest number I recall was Hemyock 295 - my Aunts farm in Devon and that was a long time go before the exchange was automated.

Interesting - I remember from when I were a lad our number was written as SANderstead 3311 - I guess you could actually dial the letters S-A-N. But then when STD (Subscriber Trunk Dailling) was introduced it became 657-3311, which does not match the S.A.N on the dial. (It then became 01-657-3311, then (I think? ) 021, then 0131 ... lord knows what it is now. Probably a block of flats.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Mk10's on parade in 1962

 

[Chippy_Tea]

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Electric car charging station, i didn't expected that -
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[Chippy_Tea]

Who's house looked similar to this (1970)

 

[Eskimo John]

Guilty on the 1970 house. Lots of orange I seem to recall but my parents house as I was too young to have flown the nest.

 

[Eskimo John]

Electric car charging station, i didn't expected that -
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This is what happens when you refuel your petrol car at an electric point.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Guilty on the 1970 house. Lots of orange I seem to recall but my parents house as I was too young to have flown the nest.

I would love to see that photo in colour.

 

[Eskimo John]

Funny, I was fairly glad it wasn't

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Lots of wood cladding, cork and brown furnature.

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[fgoulding]