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Rick Site Admin
Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22454 Location: UK
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47p2
Joined: 24 Nov 2007 Posts: 2009 Location: Glasgow
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Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2014 5:30 pm Post subject: |
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I've a few light up signs
The Vauxhall sign came as just a plastic shield so some intuitive intervention was required
and a few metal paper and cloth ones also
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Rick Site Admin
Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22454 Location: UK
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badhuis
Joined: 20 Aug 2008 Posts: 1391 Location: Netherlands
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Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2014 3:19 pm Post subject: |
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Here are the few I have.
This Rootes sign I bought in Antwerp in the late eighties, when they still could be found at reasonable money. I think I paid around 40 pounds. It is an outdoor French garage sign, enamel on heavy steel, both sides the same. Late fifties I guess. I have never seen something similar again.
This Castrol sign is a double sided, plastic with a lamp inside. Strong round steel frame. I got it from a friend. Sorry for the bad pic behind the garage heater etc!
This Michelin sign I got at a French garage where I was stuck (caravan with a flat tyre). Again enamel on heavy steel, both sides.
At the same garage I took a couple of mid seventies Michelin signs. Thin steel this time.
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badhuis
Joined: 20 Aug 2008 Posts: 1391 Location: Netherlands
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Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2014 9:03 pm Post subject: |
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Thinking about my Rootes sign, it probably is from before 1956 when Rootes took over Singer. _________________ a car stops being fun when it becomes an investment |
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ka
Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 600 Location: Orkney.
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Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2014 8:38 am Post subject: |
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I am tempted to show a photo or two or my garage, an awful lot busier than the pristine ones above, shall we have a new topic, 'who has the busiest garage, and still manages to work in it?' _________________ KA
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Rootes75
Joined: 30 Apr 2013 Posts: 3828 Location: The Somerset Levels
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Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2014 2:24 pm Post subject: |
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Very clean and tidy workshops...not like mine...
I have a couple old signs, the largest being an old Clevelend Petrol sign.
I very much like the Rootes sign, wouldn't mind finding one of them over here. |
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Rick Site Admin
Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22454 Location: UK
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Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2014 4:11 pm Post subject: |
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ka wrote: | I am tempted to show a photo or two or my garage, an awful lot busier than the pristine ones above, shall we have a new topic, 'who has the busiest garage, and still manages to work in it?' |
there are one or two older threads lurking, featuring several members' sheds, workshops, garages etc, they probably want resurrecting...
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Rootes75
Joined: 30 Apr 2013 Posts: 3828 Location: The Somerset Levels
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Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2014 10:08 am Post subject: |
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I did used to have a very large double sided Fina enamel sign in very good condition. One of the many bits sold over the years to fund restorations! |
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Penman
Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4765 Location: Swindon, Wilts.
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Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2014 7:41 am Post subject: |
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Hi
I have no idea where this is, I just found the picture amongst a whole pile of old photos.
I thought it might please the Pump afficionados.
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kevin2306
Joined: 01 Jul 2013 Posts: 1359 Location: nr Llangollen, north wales
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Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2015 2:04 pm Post subject: |
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Drove past this garage today, had to turn round and snap a pic
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Rick Site Admin
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kevin2306
Joined: 01 Jul 2013 Posts: 1359 Location: nr Llangollen, north wales
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Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2015 2:27 pm Post subject: |
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it was in wimslow rick.
bad awful corner it is on as well.
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badhuis
Joined: 20 Aug 2008 Posts: 1391 Location: Netherlands
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Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2015 11:04 pm Post subject: |
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not a sign but an old original showroom poster which I bought and received today. Very pleased with it! Size 100 x 75 cm. Will be framed and hung in the garage.
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RogerB
Joined: 18 Dec 2014 Posts: 177 Location: Suffolk Coastal. U.K.
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Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2016 9:00 am Post subject: Old Garage Signs |
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Does anyone have a picture of a RedeX garage sign for my research? |
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