Well, not the most important thing, that was to keep your face away at the critical moment in case you lost your grip on the handle. Spardo
Too true David, my Fathers mate was pulling down on the tube he’d slid on the handle, as you do, only he let it slip and the tube flew up in the air. Dad says the daft bugger then looked up and it came down and hit him end on over his right eye, a nice circle cut that made. My Father taught me never to pull down with your hands but put the tube under your arm pit and slowly move down bending you knees until it locked. Worked every time for me. As you say many local variations of transport terms yet we seemed to know what they all meant. Franky.
I was pulling a dog down with a cheater (length of pipe to increase leverage), one dark night. Just before the dog went over centre, the cheater slipped from my grasp. I dived under the trailer and all I could hear was the whoop, whoop, whoop of the pipe doing somersaults, high in the air. Never did find the cheater.
When I worked for a round timber haulier we had a slack day and I thought it was a good idea too oil the dog’s as we called them only to receive a rollicking from the Boss saying to me, when one of those dogs hits you in the face you will know why you dont oil them and carried on to say the only thing you lubricate them with is water, Buzzer
It is " Old Dee bridge " over the river Dee in Chester, the bus is destined for Chester Town Centre, having come from Vicars Cross which is just to the east of the City centre, the conductor must have changed his destination board in preparation for the return journey.
The two Police Officers are standing on Stanley Road at the boundary with Liverpool and Bootle, the two Forces merged to become Liverpool and Bootle Constabulary, and then becoming Merseyside Police in 1974 , The Mini Cooper S is a Traffic car from Liverpool City, ( early Cooper S did not have the twin fuel tanks ) the Ford Anglia is from Bootle.
The two Police Officers are standing on Stanley Road at the boundary with Liverpool and Bootle, the two Forces merged to become Liverpool and Bootle Constabulary, and then becoming Merseyside Police in 1974 , The Mini Cooper S is a Traffic car from Liverpool City, ( early Cooper S did not have the twin fuel tanks ) the Ford Anglia is from Bootle.
Regards
John
Mini Coopers never had twin tanks as standard. An optional accessory fitted after the purchase of the car if required.
The two Police Officers are standing on Stanley Road at the boundary with Liverpool and Bootle, the two Forces merged to become Liverpool and Bootle Constabulary, and then becoming Merseyside Police in 1974 , The Mini Cooper S is a Traffic car from Liverpool City, ( early Cooper S did not have the twin fuel tanks ) the Ford Anglia is from Bootle.
Regards
John
Mini Coopers never had twin tanks as standard. An optional accessory fitted after the purchase of the car if required.
That was correct up to body No 47681 when the fitting of twin tanks was a standard Cooper S fitment from January 1966.
The two Police Officers are standing on Stanley Road at the boundary with Liverpool and Bootle, the two Forces merged to become Liverpool and Bootle Constabulary, and then becoming Merseyside Police in 1974 , The Mini Cooper S is a Traffic car from Liverpool City, ( early Cooper S did not have the twin fuel tanks ) the Ford Anglia is from Bootle.
Regards
John
Mini Coopers never had twin tanks as standard. An optional accessory fitted after the purchase of the car if required.
That was correct up to body No 47681 when the fitting of twin tanks was a standard Cooper S fitment from January 1966.
Regards
John
That’s news to me and I was working in a BMC distributor at that time! Indeed we sold a good few police mini coopers to Essex Constabulary. So I got to drive them with the ridiculously large blue light on the roof. Thanks for the correction.
