mushroomman:
Dig, you should of got these girls on the job.
Anybody for Prairie Oysters.
Couldn’t agree more Mushroomman regrettably in my day not many Jillaroos around then.
Might give your Oysters a miss though. 
Dig
DIG:
mushroomman:
Dig, you should of got these girls on the job.
Anybody for Prairie Oysters.Couldn’t agree more Mushroomman regrettably in my day not many Jillaroos around then.
Might give your Oysters a miss though.Dig
Nor mine mate, and what there were, didn’t look like those either. 
If anyone of a certain age remembers the film the Italian Job and Benny Hill’s character in it, he would have been in 7th heaven in those days.
When I got to Sydney, there were plenty of attractive girls, but many of them were, shall we say, somewhat heavier, and there was a saying mainly amongst the Pommie population ‘Come to Australia, where men are men…and women are too’.
No doubt totally unjustified and perhaps had something to do with the lack of attractive (to girls) of the pale faced immigrants. 
We didn’t do too badly though, once we got browned off a bit.
Thanks to revman, servo88, Geordielad, DIG,Ray Smyth, Buzzer, Lawrence Dunbar, robthedog, Dennis Javelin and ERF-NGC-European for the photos 
also mushroomman for the link
Oily
Joda on the A9 Easter Ross today.
A picture, probably from the 1960s of the Widnes-Runcorn Transporter Bridge. The little 3 wheeler looks like
a NHS " Invacar ", designed for invalid drivers. The small van is a Morris 5 cwt. Picture from Bootle History Forum.
Ray Smyth.
Ray Smyth:
A picture, probably from the 1960s of the Widnes-Runcorn Transporter Bridge. The little 3 wheeler looks like
a NHS " Invacar ", designed for invalid drivers. The small van is a Morris 5 cwt. Picture from Bootle History Forum.Ray Smyth.
I think those invalid cars were made by AC Cars of Thames Ditton. The same AC Cars of sports car fame including, later, the AC Cobra. Talk about chalk and cheese…
Morris 5 cwt ‘Z’ van, often ex GPO. In my teens I belonged to a club and the chairman had one of those and as I couldn’t drive his wife and he gave me and another couple a lift back home from meetings. One evening they dropped me off as usual, the following day the chairman’s wife picked the female of the other couple up from her work at lunchtime and offered her a lift home. Only she didn’t drop her off at home, she drove to an unadopted road near where I lived and battered her to death with a hammer after suffocating her with a plastic bag first. Then she drove to her house and asked her husband to help her bury the body…he called the Police instead.
Pete.
windrush:
Morris 5 cwt ‘Z’ van, often ex GPO. In my teens I belonged to a club and the chairman had one of those and as I couldn’t drive his wife and he gave me and another couple a lift back home from meetings. One evening they dropped me off as usual, the following day the chairman’s wife picked the female of the other couple up from her work at lunchtime and offered her a lift home. Only she didn’t drop her off at home, she drove to an unadopted road near where I lived and battered her to death with a hammer after suffocating her with a plastic bag first. Then she drove to her house and asked her husband to help her bury the body…he called the Police instead.Pete.
What is it you Northeners say? “There’s nowt as weird as folk”?
Dipster:
windrush:
Morris 5 cwt ‘Z’ van, often ex GPO. In my teens I belonged to a club and the chairman had one of those and as I couldn’t drive his wife and he gave me and another couple a lift back home from meetings. One evening they dropped me off as usual, the following day the chairman’s wife picked the female of the other couple up from her work at lunchtime and offered her a lift home. Only she didn’t drop her off at home, she drove to an unadopted road near where I lived and battered her to death with a hammer after suffocating her with a plastic bag first. Then she drove to her house and asked her husband to help her bury the body…he called the Police instead.Pete.
What is it you Northeners say? “There’s nowt as weird as folk”?
More appropriately, ‘deadlier than the male’ springs to mind.
Dipster:
windrush:
Morris 5 cwt ‘Z’ van, often ex GPO. In my teens I belonged to a club and the chairman had one of those and as I couldn’t drive his wife and he gave me and another couple a lift back home from meetings. One evening they dropped me off as usual, the following day the chairman’s wife picked the female of the other couple up from her work at lunchtime and offered her a lift home. Only she didn’t drop her off at home, she drove to an unadopted road near where I lived and battered her to death with a hammer after suffocating her with a plastic bag first. Then she drove to her house and asked her husband to help her bury the body…he called the Police instead.Pete.
What is it you Northeners say? “There’s nowt as weird as folk”?
Ah but this was in Berkshire, still some strange folk there as well though! 
Pete.
Ford D Series National Coal Board lorry at Bickershaw Colliery near Leigh in
Lancashire around 1980. Picture from Graham Isherwood.
Ray Smyth.
