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JohnDale

Joined: 19 Mar 2008 Posts: 790 Location: Kelvin Valley,Scotland
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Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2012 4:43 pm Post subject: 1960's |
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Just came across these two photos - taken at my Uncle's garage on the A49 mid to late '60's.
Cheers,JD. _________________ 1958 Ford Zephyr Mk2 Convertible
1976 Ford Granada Ghia. |
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Peter_L
Joined: 10 Apr 2008 Posts: 2680 Location: New Brunswick. Canada.
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Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2012 4:54 pm Post subject: |
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Great photos. Nothing there that won't buff out.  |
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Rick Site Admin

Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22777 Location: UK
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Scotty
Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 883
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Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2012 6:22 pm Post subject: |
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Some chicken-wire, a dab of putty and a lick of paint - sorted!
Great pictures - thanks for posting. |
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JC T ONE
Joined: 30 Oct 2008 Posts: 1139 Location: Denmark
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Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2012 6:23 pm Post subject: |
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Great pictures thanks for posting
Sorry to hear about the weather you have upthere just saw it on our news. _________________ http://www.eurods.eu/wp/index.html |
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Julian
Joined: 19 Apr 2010 Posts: 278 Location: Warrington
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Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2012 7:25 pm Post subject: Re: 1960's |
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[quote="JohnDale"]Just came across these two photos - taken at my Uncle's garage on the A49 mid to late '60's.
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Whereabouts on the 49? I live very near it and am on it practically every day, maybe I could get a picture of it as it is today...
Julian. |
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Greg
Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 445 Location: Dreamland Margate
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Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2012 7:26 pm Post subject: |
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Great pictures, love the forecourt with the old fuel pumps ! |
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Mog
Joined: 30 Dec 2007 Posts: 663 Location: Sydney
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Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 8:40 am Post subject: |
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I will always remember the red label Rolls Royce recovery truck, that was at Lye, near Stourbridge. |
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Salopian
Joined: 05 Jan 2010 Posts: 354 Location: Newport Shropshire
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Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 10:03 am Post subject: |
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Yes I remember that RR at Lye as well - spent 2 years of my life there pounding the beat in my short Police careeer years ago.
It was fairly well known and I have a feeling it has been rebuilt as it was from something I read a while ago. Remember old RR were cheap then - who wanted one? There were several in a scrap yard at Doxey in Stafford I remember in the early sixties. _________________ Jonathan Butler
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JohnDale

Joined: 19 Mar 2008 Posts: 790 Location: Kelvin Valley,Scotland
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Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 2:14 pm Post subject: |
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Hi,yes the two Crestas & the Vanguard were quick motors at the time - too quick for some it would appear. I would guess the Herald was flung into a corner & just tucked it's wheels in.
The garage was in Cuddington on the left climbing up the hill on the A49 - that was where I went on holiday as a teenager & remember it was possible to hear the cars at Oulton Park from the forecourt - very often pedalled by my cousin.
It was open from 6.00 till midnight(as detailed in the AA handbook) until the opening of the M6 which killed most of the passing trade. Those holidays were probably where I got my fixation with cars & mechanical things. Cheers,JD. _________________ 1958 Ford Zephyr Mk2 Convertible
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JohnDale

Joined: 19 Mar 2008 Posts: 790 Location: Kelvin Valley,Scotland
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Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 2:20 pm Post subject: Re: 1960's |
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[quote="Julian"] JohnDale wrote: | Just came across these two photos - taken at my Uncle's garage on the A49 mid to late '60's.
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Whereabouts on the 49? I live very near it and am on it practically every day, maybe I could get a picture of it as it is today...
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Hi Julian, see details in previous quote. Last time I was there would have been about '65, all grown up with a new wife. Not long after that my aunt & uncle retired to the Lakes & within a year my uncle was dead - not much retirement after years of hard work. That's my uncle just disappearing out of shot in one of the photos. Cheers,JD. _________________ 1958 Ford Zephyr Mk2 Convertible
1976 Ford Granada Ghia. |
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ukdave2002
Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4227 Location: South Cheshire
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Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 5:44 pm Post subject: |
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Rick wrote: | oooo fab pics, where was the garage located?
Your uncle had great taste in recovery trucks too
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So Rick is thinking......That Dodge recovery truck would only have been 10 miles away...wonder where it is now?
John great pics, I must have driven past the garage (or site of it) 100's of times.
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Rick Site Admin

Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22777 Location: UK
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Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 6:42 pm Post subject: |
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ukdave2002 wrote: | Rick wrote: | oooo fab pics, where was the garage located?
Your uncle had great taste in recovery trucks too
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So Rick is thinking......That Dodge recovery truck would only have been 10 miles away...wonder where it is now?
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Even worse than that, until we moved here we lived in Sandiway right next to Cuddington. I'm trying to picture where the garage would have been.
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Mog
Joined: 30 Dec 2007 Posts: 663 Location: Sydney
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Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 2:16 am Post subject: |
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I went with my mates to look at a RR saloon about 1934, in the '60,s . It was complete but needed some resto. They wanted 25 quid for it, we did not buy it...
I did a paper round in my early teens, 7 days a week, in Stourbridge. In winter time, Mr Plod would come into the back of the shop, to get warm and have a cuppa. About 1957. |
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Julian
Joined: 19 Apr 2010 Posts: 278 Location: Warrington
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Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 7:09 am Post subject: |
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Rick wrote: |
Even worse than that, until we moved here we lived in Sandiway right next to Cuddington. I'm trying to picture where the garage would have been.
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After the lawnmower place, but before the traffic lights? I'll be there today, probably, so will try and remember my camera.
Julian. |
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