Past Present and in Between in Pictures (Part 1)

[jeffrey_ellener]

Old pic A.One Mercury 1960

[gb1]

Having a bit of a sort-out, and found this picture of a Polish built STAR on an old phone.

[oiltreader]

Back in business again, same old sputer, new hard disk, new start, hopefully a few more miles, a bit like myself, knackered , still hoping to recover stuff from the hard disk that refuses to boot.

Thanks to Stanfield, Buzzer, servo88, gb1, tyneside, pete smith, bazztrucker and jeffrey ellener for keeping the show going

A couple from Friday past.
Oily

[oiltreader]

A tweak to bazztrucker’s pic, can’t beat them old uns.
Oily

[oiltreader]

Also jeffrey ellener pic, tho’ only slightly better.
Oily

[dave_the_renegade]

Good to see you back Oily, didn’t realise you had a problem with your pc,otherwise I would have posted a few as well.
Cheers Dave.

[oiltreader]

Leylands, pics 2 and 3 same wagon but a few years in between, so being well looked after.
Oily

[oiltreader]

Dave the Renegade:
Good to see you back Oily, didn’t realise you had a problem with your pc,otherwise I would have posted a few as well.
Cheers Dave.

Thanks for that Dave, yes it stuttered once or twice, so cloned the main hard disk OS a while ago, a just in case precaution for what did eventually happen, tho’ not out of the woods yet
Cheers
Oily

[servo88]

Pleased you rocking & rolling again Oily, now i,v got a puzzler for you, what year was this registered ? It,s still on it,s original tyres & only done 16000 miles.Regards sero88

[oiltreader]

This one for Leyland 600 and any other busmen out there, familiar steering wheel, add the rest.
Oily

[servo88]

[oiltreader]

Rover 75, early 50s good solid motor, I’ve actually had a go in one them and you’ve lit the memory, re the handbrake, cheers for the pics
Oily
Edit
Also had a Freewheel, which if I remember rightly was a knurled knob below the dash, when turned on gave you an “out of gear” option, freewheeling, hopefully someone knows more than I can remember and sort it out a bit better technically.
Oily

[servo88]

Oily your spot on, i asked the owner he said 1954 it also had a knob what you turned to put it in free wheel mode.regards servo88

[oiltreader]

servo88:
Oily your spot on, i asked the owner he said 1954 it also had a knob what you turned to put it in free wheel mode.regards servo88

Writing our posts at the same time

[servo88]

[servo88]

Now here,s a real cracker i,m putting on hope you can tell me a bit about this model Oily, regards servo

[servo88]

[lawrence_dunbar]

This was taken on The Close outside Mansion House Wharf, Where the Copthorne Hotel stands now, Im just a young lad 25 year old, Baxters was a great firm to work for in those days , They worked you hard but they paid good money & exs, & allways asked you to do something , never told you to do it, They were the good old days IMO, Regards Larry.

[gordon_wil]

Thought I would have a play with this also, but not much better.

[john_west]

Lawrence Dunbar:
This was taken on The Close outside Mansion House Wharf, Where the Copthorne Hotel stands now, Im just a young lad 25 year old, Baxters was a great firm to work for in those days , They worked you hard but they paid good money & exs, & allways asked you to do something , never told you to do it, They were the good old days IMO, Regards Larry.0

Hi Larry, Stayed at the copthorne a few times about 10 years ago, when my daughter was looking at Universities and fancied Newcastle. I seem to remember old buildings on the other side of the road, which may have been warehouses once, but with ferns growing out of them then - or is that a false memory?

John.