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PostPosted: Tue Feb 16, 2021 5:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ray White wrote:
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Excellent!

The photos give a good record of the work done but you and I know they cannot even begin to show the sheer frustration that accompanied that particular restoration. !

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Thanks Ray, you don't know the half of it either!!!!! There were some significant humps in the road I can tell you.

RJ


I read every word of your blog on the restoration.

Such trials and tribulations.!

All I can say is you must be made of some pretty stern stuff.!!


I had to abridge certain details on the main site's resto diary, I could write a book ...

RJ
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 16, 2021 6:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi
Re the Model A.
Newberys Wholesale Chemist is interesting.

There is an C18 mention here.
http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/98462/3/SHM%5B1%5D.pdf
Considering
two prominent owners/wholesalers who will be described later in this paper, two of
Francis Newbery’s most successful medicines, Dr James’s Fever Powder and Dr
James’s Analeptic Pills, were patented.

Many more mentions through the paper.

Also in 1968 a London Gazette mention.
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/44714/page/12128/data.pdf

I wonder if that was the same company.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 16, 2021 7:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rick wrote:
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I had to abridge certain details on the main site's resto diary, I could write a book ...

RJ


You should!!!!!

(When you would find the time, however, is a very different matter! Laughing )
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 19, 2021 10:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Uploaded to the brochure section today, a slim publication from 1975 describing dealer-fit options for buyers of new Cortinas, Escorts, Capris and Granadas.
https://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/car-brochures/ford-accessories.htm

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PostPosted: Fri Feb 19, 2021 2:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Latest instalment in the Talbot tinkering videos now uploaded
https://youtu.be/5pMNae7fO-s

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PostPosted: Tue Feb 23, 2021 11:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Added to the OCC YT channel today, photos taken at the 60th Anniversary meet for classic Minis held at Gaydon in 2019.
https://youtu.be/pAXB_dVQsLA

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 25, 2021 10:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Newly-added to the classic brochures section, a 1949 brochure for the Bedford 1/2 ton PC van and Utilavan.
https://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/car-brochures/bedford-pc-van.htm

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PostPosted: Fri Feb 26, 2021 10:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Two 1953 photos of a Ford 7Y added to the following page today.
https://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/ford_7y_eight.htm

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 01, 2021 11:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Today's brochure addition lurches into the mid-1980s and is an original catalogue for the lary Escort RS Turbo S1. While it doesn't strike me as being a particularly old car, this brochure is now 36 years old ...
https://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/car-brochures/rs-turbo.htm

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 03, 2021 11:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The latest old-car publication to be featured is an amusingly-illustrated Volvo driving advice booklet from 1971.
https://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/car-brochures/volvo-tips.htm

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PostPosted: Fri Mar 05, 2021 11:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi all, a photo slideshow featuring 115 photos of Triumph Spitfires and GT6s is today's upload, added to the page below.
https://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/car-brochures/triumph-spitfire-mk3.htm

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PostPosted: Fri Mar 05, 2021 11:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

My old Triumph GT6 Mk3 (PHT 725M) is featured 2.5mins in. I notice it now has black wheels and wing mounted mirrors. The windscreen surround is minus the plastic chrome trim which was always difficult to fit properly.

Nice to see the old girl again ( I owned Mellow Yellow for 38 years) but if I wanted to buy her back I would probably have to pay twice what I got for her 8 years ago.
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 05, 2021 11:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ray White wrote:
My old Triumph GT6 Mk3 (PHT 725M) is featured 2.5mins in. I notice it now has black wheels and wing mounted mirrors. The windscreen surround is minus the plastic chrome trim which was always difficult to fit properly.

Nice to see the old girl again ( I owned Mellow Yellow for 38 years) but if I wanted to buy her back I would probably have to pay twice what I got for her 8 years ago.


Small world eh? that was probably at Cholmondeley Castle a few years ago.

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I've put together two collections of photos featuring all manner of early automobilia - ie memorabilia relating to road transport, including enamel signs, petrol pumps, car accessories, a few early pedal cars, and much more. Part 2 will follow along soon, Part 1 (both parts have 140 photos in them) now added to the following page.
https://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/classic_car_article8.htm

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Embedded onto the following page today, a slideshow vid featuring a further 140 photos of wonderful old automobilia.
https://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/motormisc.htm

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