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There are three cards by the artist Peter Miller in the collection. He specialises in Bentley cars in atmospheric settings. I posted one of them last year and here is another. It is titled Christmas Glow. The place is easy to identify - the clubhouse at the Brooklands race track. Didn't the old Bentleys have a lovely radiator shape. No Rootes blower on this one.

Another one for the steam railway buffs. This one is how they do it America.

Wonderful innit! You post an interesting picture of cars in a nice English scene and the topic of conversation is the identity of something on an advertisement . I like it.

Ben card 13. No details for this one, but we can see that the LMS railway engine dates the scene to 1948 at the latest. The engine's number appears to be 5514, which makes it one of the Patriot Class, with the name Holyhead. The Bentley car is a Mk.V or Mk.VI, and there is a Morris light lorry in the background. The MG sports car (I think) has a registration of the late 1950/early 1960 period, so is an anachronism. The motorbike is an HRD, later to become the Vincent. I could be wrong, but I thought that Power petrol was a wartime/early post-war fuel of low grade. Edit.

What on earth are you going on about, F2? What has 'compassion' got to do with it? The problem with the word games is that they clog up the daily listings. If you try to find something posted one or two days previously, it will be lost in the morass of word game posts.

The answer lies in the fingers of the moderators. Just remove all word games and ban them. Give a warning/instruction that no more such threads will be tolerated. If anyone starts another then remove it immediately. The 'offenders' will get the message and quickly forget about posting any more. Just do it. Don't worry about hurting anyone's feelings.

I posted the new thread, and on checking the Activity list it was not there. I sent it again and this time it appeared, but only once in the actual thread, even though it is shown twice in the Activity listing. Perhaps Cliff Ton or katyjay can join them into one thread.

When we were very young, our mothers, and I suppose mothers of today, often referred to things in a baby-talk fashion. I have raised this thread for members to add those that they remember. I will start the ball rolling: Railway engine = chuff-chuff bum = moon

That's what I thought F2. I thought I could just see an 's' in the word. the printing is made up of a series of dots, so fine detail not so clear.

Oz, sorry I cannot identify the advert on the original card. It looks like the first letter is M. Being a village store, perhaps it is not a barrel but an tub of something, with a pressed-in lid. The scene is dated as 1930s. Commo. Twelve more to come - some with chuff-chuffs in the pictures.

Jill, Especially for you, a belated birthday present.

Ben card 12. An MG NA Airline Coupe and a Morris 8 van. The car is still in existence.

In my post yesterday in the Nottingham Transport thread, I did not identify the chap I said was Number 5 in the photo. His name was Jim Lancaster; know to all as Jim Lanc. He was a foreman in the flight hangar at Hucknall; a soft-spoken gentle man, liked by everyone, who hailed for the Northeast (Sunderland, I think). Like so many others at R-R Hucknall, he had always been around aircraft. Most of them had been either with the RAF or working for others companies. Then there were the Polish ex-airmen. It was wonderful listening to the tales that they told, and I remember well Jim Lanc telling m

Nothing has changed since those days, CF. Get yourself to Specsavers.

In the 1970s and 80s I was one of those that ran the Midland Counties Aviation Society, Nottingham Branch. This photo was taken at one of our meetings, held in one of the University lodges on Derby Road. I invited Ronnie Harker to give us a talk about his career, and he came up from Knightsbridge, London. The photo taken that night shows: 1 and 5 were RR Hucknall people. 2 is Ted Gibson. He was Rolls-Royce's first liaison engineer and before the war used to go to the aircraft manufacturers like Fairey and Hawker and fly in their aircraft powered by RR engines and report on the

Ben card 11. Talbot 14/50 tourer (still n existence) with Ariel 550 cc side-valve with Watsonian Launch sidecar, and behind a Morris Minor 5 cwt van.

Hey Malc. That's not a bad 64-quids worth. Front tyre looks flat, but only flat on the bottom. Be prepared to discover muscles and joints you never knew you had.

The tram posts seem to have wandered to the Christmas Tree thread. The question was asked 'Who would you name a tram after?' If I had any say in the naming I would chose Ronald Ward Harker. Who's he? I hear you say. Known to everyone who knew him as Ronnie Harker, he was a test and liaison pilot at Rolls-Royce Hucknall. In 1942 he flew a Mustang aircraft powered by the American Allison engine. He found the aircraft to be superior to the Spitfire aerodynamically, but it needed the Rolls-Royce's two-stage supercharged Merlin engine to improve its performance. He set the ball rolling by gett

Yes, we all loved the old tracklesses. Sadly, they have no role in today's city transport systems. They would be about the same size as the double-decker buses that hold a maximum of 90 passengers. The NET tram will take 191 passengers. I know they are only chock-a-block at busy periods, but they can cope. For a trackless to compare you would have to have twice as many of them. You cannot have an articulated trackless with two cars because they would never get round the city street corners. This can only be achieved with vehicles travelling on rails. There are 131 cities in the world t

This time last year I posted a series of images of Christmas cards showing old motoring scenes, issued by the motoring charity BEN. During this month I will post the rest of them. Ben card 11: A Bentley 3-litre shooting brake with 1928 30 cwt Dennis lorry in background

No, Mike, that is not 'all they have done'. Apart from not producing 'harmful' smoke they are producing harmless vapour. And what's more they are not paying £8.50 for twenty fags every day; they are paying 3 to 5 pounds a week for the liquid.

I'm going to have my two-pennorth on this subject, at risk of offending some (but I hope I won't). I am sick and tired of hearing non-smokers and ex-smokers telling people that they know best , or how they should behave. Live and let live, or perhaps live and let die. Now that there are more non-smokers than smokers they think they have a right to pontificate on others habits, hiding behind the very dubious fact' that passive smoking kills thousands. People will believe what they want to believe if it suits their purpose. Yes, there is a big risk with people with severe bronchial problems, but

Maybe you did. There were so many of them, perhaps you can't remember these two.

How about the Roebuck, tonight at 8 o'clock?

I blame the statins - reduce the dose again.