What happened to spuds ????????????

[Towpack]

I'm sure I can remember in the mid fifties petrol at 2/6d a gallon.

Except during the Suez Crisis when you couldn't get any A friend of mine ran his Triumph on TVO he blagged from a local farmer he knew. It wouldn't tick over reliably though so he had to keep revving it at traffic lights etc belching clouds of smoke out of the exhaust. At least it ran. Try that with a new 200bhp super bike and see how far you (don't) get .

 

[clivehorridge]

I've still got my petrol ration book somewhere, from the early 70s.

Sorry, I Bazooker Joe'd and Chris had beaten me to it.

What about those triangular ish frozen jubblies, they used to last 1/2 a day.

 

[clivehorridge]

I've still got my petrol ration book somewhere, from the early 70s.

Sorry, I Bazooker Joe'd and Chris had beaten me to it.

What about those triangular ish frozen jubblies, they used to last 1/2 a day. In this pic they look so small, they used to be mahoosive!

 

[Chas]

Jubblies were much bigger than that!, Clive I still have my petrol ration book somewhere too from when I was driving a Triumph 2000.

 

[Shayne]

I remember Jubbly's and Black Jacks and Mojo's which were small sweet and only half a penny thats why i call the mrs Mojo I'm not that old am i

Nutty bars does anyone remember them it was just a bunch of peanuts held together with toffee

 

[clivehorridge]

I seem to remember Mojos were 4 for a penny, and when I stared school, the farthing was still in circulation. Chas will remember them...

 

[Chris]

Rondello biscuits anyone? They were my alternative to Wagon Wheels. They were a big round flat sort of sweet oaty biscuit.
2 pence coins in a call box. You could buy single fags from the ice cream van outside school. Primary school that was.

What about those Jelly Baby type animal sweets that came in a cube box. Jungle Jellies or something. You could stack the boxes as they had pictures and numbers on them like baby bricks. Dixie Cola - you got free stickers with every can

Mmmm Fry's Five Centers. I'd kill for one of those.

Shops shut all day Sunday. Half day Weds. John Lewis closed on a Monday.

 

[Gary820]

All sounds like a normal day in Yorkshire

 

[Tractionman]

Ee, when I were a lad!

 

[Pat]

Clive,When I was at college in the early 50's I had a farthing that a nice old Jewish lady gave me and one of my schoolmates offered to shine it up for me,so he dropped it in a beaker of I think nitric acid and it was seen no more.
however I still have the first shilling I ever earnt.Pat

 

[Chas]

I seem to remember Mojos were 4 for a penny, and when I stared school, the farthing was still in circulation. Chas will remember them...

Yeah, I remember them, can't remember being able to buy anything with them though, what about thru'penny bits?
I used to collect silver coins, one day I sold some to a coin dealer, they had a face value of just over 14 shillings but because of the amount of silver in them he gave me £110.

 

[clivehorridge]

2 pence coins in a call box.

Ha ha, the old black two button phone box, haven't thought about them in ages. Press button A to make the connection, and button B to get your money back if nobody answered. Like it!

 

[Chas]

Ha ha, the old black two button phone box, haven't thought about them in ages. Press button A to make the connection, and button B to get your money back if nobody answered. Like it!

You could also get free calls by hitting the receiver rest the number of times for each number required and dialing if you needed a zero.

 

[Dave Docwra]

Windshield strips with names on them

Texaco (I think) stick on bullet holes

Foot operated dip switch

Manual pump for washers

Furry dices

Go faster stripes

Wheel spacers

Rear Jack ups

 

[Pat]

Did you have penny in the slot toilets for when you got caught short.not easy when you are filled up with beer and a feed of pork bones and watercress.express trains don't come any faster and without a penny you're lost.Pat

 

[Shayne]

Before my time those phones but i do remember sending a telegram . The first time i spoke to the operator and she took my message then asked me to insert cash payment into the phone . So i duly put however many coins in and was left to wonder how she knew what coins i was actually using . Curiosity got the better of me and an hour later i sent a pointless telegram just to test my theory and it turned out she couldn't tell the difference at all because if the first telegram cost me £2 the second cost me 8p and both messages arrived safely .

 

[Chas]

Windshield strips with names on them

Texaco (I think) stick on bullet holes

Foot operated dip switch

Manual pump for washers

Furry dices

Go faster stripes

Wheel spacers

Rear Jack ups

Remember all of them, I've still got, somewhere, a foot operated switch, I've modded it as a touch on/off switch for an air horn or similar, not got round to fitting it yet, got to find it first.

 

[Dave Docwra]

A Piece of paper in the windscreen saying Tax In The Post , following week a beer label took its place

Piece of paper in the rear window with, please pass running in.

 

[clivehorridge]

For those who don't know the pre 1970s coins...
The thru'penny bit is the lone bronze coloured chappie

 

[BobMurphy]

Tiger tails hanging off the filler cap.

Vacuum-operated wipers that shuddered to a halt when you needed them most.

Bench seats in the front and 3-speed column gear changes.

Drum brakes all round .

No brake servos or power steering.

Synchromesh on third & fourth if you were lucky.

Stick-on rear window heaters.

No heaters or radios unless you were REALLY up-market.

Silver threepenny bits (my Gran used to save them and put them in the Christmas Puddings).

The introduction of "The 10-Year Test".

Decimalisation in 1971.

Scooters covered in chrome carriers, aerials & lights.

Proper Motorcycles .

I could go on.

Bob.