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  1. That flashcube looks used.

    IFA was the factory that made MZs, wasn’t it? Decent bikes once you got the hang of how they handled.

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    1. Hi, Derek. Quick bit of research reveals that after the War the entire East German motor vehicle industry was re-organized under the IFA brand. MZ motorcycles, were made in Zschopau, tractors in Nordhausen.

      Way back in the day when I was first learning German, I learned that the East Germans had a special word for tractor-driver: der Traktorist. From the Russian, I think.

      While I’m here, I’ll take a wild guess at Pic 14: I think it’s HMS Warspite.

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      1. I’ve just had another thought inspired by Pic 16: the disks on the disk-harrows I’ve seen in West Germany (not the ones in Pic 16) resembled the sprocket wheels on German tanks of the Second World War. I’m not saying that they were ACTUAL sprockets, but they might have been stock left over from the War or disks made post-war to the same design. If I’m right, that would be an interesting case of swords turned into ploughshares, almost literally.

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        1. LOL Brilliant.

          If you already have the technology to get a heavy vehicle through a boggy mess… you don’t, as it were, reinvent the wheel!

          🙂

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  2. 1. Prince Edward being sent to his wedding?

    11. Bus from Tarbert to Rodel (via Horgabost?)

    17. Orkney? Or maybe Caithness?

    20. John and Edward. Irish ambassadors to planet Fun!

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      1. 1. LOL LOL LOL

        11. I dare say Roddy will know about it.

        17. The latter. But which town?

        20. How did they get their hair to do that? They couldn’t have know that Truss was gonna be PM, could they?

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        1. “I dare say Roddy will know about it. “

          Yes, well obviously its a Bedford OB / Duple (the bus-seated version), operator = Mitchell’s of Stornoway no less, who featured only last week…… obviously these things are not just thrown together 😁

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            1. Same bus seen here in Eastern National days with an all-over advert for central heating..

              a 1965 Lodekka FLF6G (i.e. front entrance, long wheelbase, Gardner 6LW engine)

              (I wasn’t suggesting the photo was a repeat – it wasn’t – but last week you had a pic of Stornoway bus station featuring 2 buses of Mitchell of Stornoway and this weeks Bedford is also one of there’s….😉)

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              1. Tell that to Munguin and demand he return my privileges of being allowed to sleep indoors!!! It was uncomfortable sharing the shed last night with the mice and the lawnmower.

                The Lodekka looks a tad garish and showy there… 🙂

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        1. That splicer reminds me of my cousin who was always trying editing reel to reel tapes and he never seemed to master it. I can still hear his choice language when it all went wrong.

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          1. Auld Toons and Auldmarcia, still have a splicer for my collection of tapes. It seems that there is an international language for repairing tapes, I still use it.

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        1. But what about the cars? Is morego asleep on the job?? Shocking!

          A nice selection featuring several Vauxhalls (a couple of Victors, one an estate) with a Cresta making towards the camera. There’s the rear end of a Hillman Minx and Ford Consul, but what’s that right in front of the door of Woolies, wedged rather tightly between the farthest Victor and the Austin A30? The rear lamps say ‘Cortina’ but the body doesn’t look right. Could it be a 2-door version??

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          1. Munguin will be having words, after he’s dealt with me for repeats.

            Funny thing is, I thought I might have put it up before. So I had a quick look and couldn’t see it.

            What am I like?

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          2. ZZZZZZ… Sorry Roddy!
            It is a Cortina MKI 2-door, pre-facelift (for 1965) model.
            Bit of glare on the front wing, possibly altering the apparent shape?
            See below, just posted….

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            1. Ah! so I wasn’t far out after all.

              I’d forgotten there was a 2 door version, which I shouldn’t have. This one’s apparently the most famous of its type on the planet! (as raced by a certain Mr Clark)

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              1. That’s it Roddy, the Lotus Cortina was always in two-door form for body stiffness and the GT version was four-door.
                The Lotus gave a lot of problems, being uncompromising in the modifications done with an eye to being raced and rallied and had to be dialled back on in the interests of reliability.
                Jim Clark was spectacular in one at places like Brands Hatch, lifting an inside front wheel in tight bends to get closer to the apex.
                Never been a driver like him….

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    3. Pic 4 – On the note is Benito Peréz Galdos, thought by some to have been the greatest Spanish author since Cervantes. Pic 10 – Shaving mug. Pic 15 – Why do the goats cross the road? ‘Cos they’ve goat tae get tae the ither side! On second thoughts it’s maybe Tory voters going to vote.

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      1. Ha ha ha ha… that is a real;l;y dreadful insult to goats.

        Munguin has just had the head goat on the phone complaining bitterly. 🙂 He says you goatist!

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    4. No 10 is a shaving mug , the brush is kept in the spout and a flat faced round bottomed shaving soap goes ìn the top. God I must be old, I’ve got one!

      No 15 are the goats in Llandudno who came down from the Great Orm / Y Gogarth, to explore the empty ghost town during covid. There are some are still there.

      Gwyn Jones

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      1. Ha ha. I’ve got a BrAun, but I can’t think of a time when there wasn’t a tin of soap that you could squirt on yourself for razor shaving.

        It was wonderful how places started to re-wild when Covid kept the ghastly humans away.

        Llandudno looks nice.

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    5. I see Independent has spotted Thurso High Street, but I can see a couple of Royal Sovereigns – George VI in No. 1 (but the photo is from before his big bro went off in a huff, so technically this is when he was the grand old Duke of York).

      At No. 14 we have one of the Royal Sovereign class battleships from the mid-WWII paint job it can’t be the poor old Royal Oak, so maybe Revenge? maybe Ramillies?

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      2. Yes, looks like Royal Sovereign Class (or Revenge or R Class). Who knows which one, though unlikely to be Royal Oak. I’ve yet to see photos of the Royal Oak with the cowl on top of the funnel, a distinctive feature of the Class as a result of their later refits. I wonder when the stern platform was added – none of Class photos appear to show this.

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      1. Bravo to the little boy who didn’t want to go for a train ride with the old kingy bloke.

        🙂

        Imagine spending all that money to show what a set of complet invading b+st+rds you were.

        I’m amazed at how quickly they managed to build it all. I don;t think they could do that now.

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    7. Travelled the other way from Rodel to Tarbert by the C road, which was quite a challenge for the driver (and any nervous passengers).

      Met a young lady from San Francisco on return to Tarbert but won’t.bother you with the details……eheu fugaces, as the Romans wd say……..

      There were some of the little Bedford buses in operation where I lived, all with slatted wooden seats. In retrospect, can’t figure out whether their chararistice wngine note denoted petrol engine or just transmission noise.

      Did Royal Sovereign class see any battle action in WW2 ? I only recollect reading of them being used as convoy escorts for deterrent effect against German surrface raiders.

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        1. By that time yes – 21knots top speed. Even the interwar Nelson and Rodney were slow by Bismarck/ KGV etc standards. I read somewhere of a signal from captain of one of the latter to the effect that ‘your 25 knots faster than my 25 knots’ (half recollection from reading of many years ago.)

          P.S. ‘Eheu fugaces’ brings out a more heartfelt note of despair to my mind.

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    9. Pic2 has a Scammell Highwayman ballast tractor towing a heavy load on a load-loader trailer.
      These were super-heavy low-geared lorries, designed to pull exceptionally large cargoes. Top speed when loaded about 20 mph on a straight road but mostly seen travelling at walking pace…
      Looks like it’s been re-routed through a village in the countryside to avoid a weak or low bridge etc., on a more direct route.
      In the days before the motorway network was developed, this was a common site, with police closing roads and accompanying the load all the way to its destination.
      Maybe late fifties/ early sixties?

      Pic3 has a couple of the legendary VW Type2 T1, “splitty” – referencing the split-windscreen – microbus.
      Produced between 1950 and 1967, these are in great demand and even heavily rusted examples which emerge from many decades in barns are snapped up in no time.
      They make high prices at auction, such is the regard in which they’re held by enthusiasts.
      Don’t get it, myself…

      Pic8 is a nice Ford Model A five-window Coupe (no accent acute and – Francophones look away now – pronounced “coop” in America…)
      Produced from 1927 to 1931, the A replaced the Model T (but still used a 3.3 litre development of the four cylinder engine from the T)

      Pic17 looks like early sixties.
      There are no suffix-registered cars in the shot and the newest one looks like the Cortina (even that is a pre-1965 model, so I could be wrong).
      Left to right – Ford Consul MkII, Hillman Minx Series V, another Minx in the distance, Vauxhall Cresta PA, Vauxhall Victor FB, Ford Cortina MkI (with ban-the-bomb rear light lens), Austin A35, Vauxhall Victor FB estate.
      Which town is it?
      Others better-versed in these things shall deliberate, I feel confident!

      Pic18 – when Terry met Harry…

      Pic20 – are these two standing on the grating Marilyn famously once stood?
      Maybe had a seven-year itch to try it?
      Asking for a friend…

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        1. I noticed him tutting, but you may have got away with it this time…

          I, on the other hand, am on short commons this week for reposting Roddy’s bus from last week.

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          1. Phew! No bread-and-dripping for supper for me then….🙂

            What is it they say about waiting ages for a bus and two come along?

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      2. Pic. 2 is from me, so I’ll tell you what I know.

        (I’m grateful to m0reg0 for identifying the lorry, because I couldn’t make it out from zooming the photo)

        The picture shows a piece of heavy equipment (possibly a slag pan) being delivered to Brymbo Steelworks, and late 50s/early 60s is probably right regarding the date.

        Given that most heavy traffic to and from the steelworks up to the late 70s was carried by rail, the roads to and from it weren’t much more than ‘B’ roads at best, the sorts of roads which connected rural and semi-rural villages such as ours. I’ve seen other photos in this set, and the load was brought through three villages before it even got to ours, and then had to be edged slowly through the bottom half of Brymbo along streets which were (and still are) scarcely wide enough for a bus to get comfortably through.

        (You can get some idea of how narrow by looking at the pictures at http://www.thejudge.me.uk/Gallery/Gal_01_C_004.htm)

        The scene in this photo is of the load turning off the southern end of High Street down towards the steelworks entrance (which is behind the camera here). The buildings and gardens on the right-hand side were all removed in the late 70s to improve road access to the works as the loads in and out were increasingly carried by road.

        The house I was born and brought up in is about 50 yards back of the left end of the bank in the background. The bank is known as ‘The Rocks’ (or, colloquially, ‘The Rocko’), and you can read more about it at http://www.thejudge.me.uk/Not_blog/Not_blog_20090916.htm and http://www.thejudge.me.uk/Not_blog/Not_blog_20200705.htm. The improved version of the junction shown in the photo is in the lower right of the bird’s-eye view on the second of those pages.

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        1. Great information, Nigel.
          I guessed the date by the Scammell and the fact that the boys had long troosers! (As late as the fifties, it was common for primary school boys to wear shorts and long socks to school – from personal experience…)
          I remember seeing whole ship’s engines – amongst other unwieldy things – being hauled past my front door and over an inland 600-foot summit to avoid a railway bridge at sea-level which lacked a few feet of clearance. Put many hours on the journey and on short winter’s days they often had to lay up the load overnight, as they couldn’t travel in the darkness.
          This was not uncommon then, back in the days of steam railways and no motorways – as recently as the mid-sixties.

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          1. m0reg0: “. . . wear shorts and long socks to school . . .”

            My personal experience is the same, and I didn’t start primary until half way through the Sixties!

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      3. Nigel will probably talk about No 2, M0reg0.

        3. Are these VW’s dormobiles?

        17 The town is Thurso, and I think it is 1960.

        18 Not as cool as Adam and Cliff, huh.

        I think Jedward musta see something really frightening.

        Maybe Liz Truss?

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        1. Dormobile is a trade-name Tris, but it is often used generically for any type of motorised caravan.
          The Splitty was commonly known as a microbus but never officially called that by VW. Not all Type 2s were ‘buses but came in a bewildering variety of body types over the years – a lot of vans, even pickups, for sure.
          People even today will convert vans into microbuses and the Type 2, being a separate chassis, will take specially built bodies…

          Thurso… Ah…. passed through it but some time ago, hence no recollection.
          The Cortina in the shot was introduced in 1962, so it must be from no later than that, but not much later, I think.

          Adam, Cliff …? For what’s in a name?
          Nelhams and Webb… sounds like an estate agents.
          Missed their calling, perhaps?

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          1. Thanks, M0reg0.

            I’m sure I saw a very old one with a stove and beds in it. A bit primitive.

            I think that they both made quite a bit of money over the years… more than they’d have got selling houses.

            🙂

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    10. Oh, we likes a tricky challenge, we does!

      No. 17 was good , but it still looks much the same these days – all the buildings are still there.

      No. 12 however… hmmm. Never been there, so was stuck until I could cheat a bit and search for the clues – “To Docks” sign, slight curve to the quite narrow street going uphill, a Palace cinema…

      Much scratching of head suggested the High Street of a “chemical-sounding” wee port in Fife; am I close? I think the two buildings on the right closest to the camera are still there – according to Google streetview 😏

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