Cigarette cards

[alan s 156]

In the 60’s you could get similar cards with Brooke Bond(?) tea. I remember looking for them between the outer box & inner wrapper. Anyone else?

[radfordred 6,284]

Superb stuff Chulla keep em coming, hopefully you will post them all in this tread? There was a topic on here "Nottingham from the air" that I was trying to show someone over Christmas sadly they where posted in different treads part 1 part 2 etc it would have been fantastic if in one tread ....... Needless to say I gave up looking. 

[radfordred 6,284]

Cheers Plant I never found it anyway it was 'from above" "Arial shots" summit like that, but it went part 1/2/3/4/5 etc If only they had been on one tread 

[Willow wilson 894]

The AC sounds like some special motor for a production road car. 2ltr 6 cylinder, 90 mph. From a contemporary write up online the motoring journalists managed 85 mph lapping Brooklands in the 30s in one of these. Nice looking car.

[Cliff Ton 10,464]

2 hours ago, radfordred said:

 There was a topic on here "Nottingham from the air" that I was trying to show someone over Christmas sadly they where posted in different treads part 1 part 2 etc it would have been fantastic if in one tread ....... Needless to say I gave up looking. 

 

It was me who did the "Nottingham from Above" series. They are all still here. https://nottstalgia.com/forums/forum/30-images-of-nottingham/?page=3

 

They suffered from the Photobucket mess, but I've repaired most of them.

[plantfit 7,593]

Sorry CT. I remember Catfan posting some footage what his son took from his drone thingy, I think,

 

Rog

[radfordred 6,284]

No wonder I couldn't find em there all over the shop? Can you imagine if they where all in the same place page after page like in a book? Bring back books that what I say 

[Cliff Ton 10,464]

1 hour ago, plantfit said:

Sorry CT. I remember Catfan posting some footage what his son took from his drone thingy, I think,

 

Rog

 

Think of that as modern version of what I'd cobbled together !     In 50 years time, the catfan material will be featuring in a future version of Nottstalgia.

[Chulla 4,946]

 

 

Radfordred; I have created this dedicated thread specifically for the cigarette cards that I will post.

A chap at where I worked had one of those Alvis drop-head saloons.

 

[Commo 1,292]

Nice touch to put Loppy on here too Chulla.

[Chulla 4,946]

The Austin Ruby was the most popular pre-war car on the road when I was young. The ones I remember well had the spare wheel in an encasement at the back. Surprised to see that it had four synchromesh gears. At 125 pounds, no wonder it was a very popular car.

 

Is that Plantfit and Rosemary in the three-wheeler?

 

 

[Willow wilson 894]

I can only remember seeing black Austin Rubys. Cheap and cheerful, it looks quite elegant in this picture, next to a picture of Christchurch in Oxford.

[Commo 1,292]

The tandem layout explains why Daisy looked so sweet on the bicycle made for two, I used to wonder how that could be on a tandem with her sat on the rear saddle pedalling away like mad.

Come on Carni, get yersens one, Chris would appreciate sitting on that front seat!

[carni 10,094]

I'm pretty sure that if we had a tandem, we wouldn't get far. Chris would be peddling like the clappers while I would secretly have my brake on behind him. Afraid we fall off to often as it is with out the risk of us both on one vehicle.

Looking at the pictures, I can't imagine how the people can even get on and off ne'mind ride them? Looks like the ladies got the front seat on the old pictures.

Much to bumpy on the towpaths for one of them there Tandems. I'm sure we would end up taking a muddy bath pretty quickly. 

[plantfit 7,593]

3 hours ago, Chulla said:

Is that Plantfit and Rosemary in the three-wheeler?

 

Could possibly be two of our ancestors Dave, great pictures,keep em coming love the cycle ones

 

Rog

[Chulla 4,946]

This page has a nice sketch of the Castle and Castle Boulevard. It also has a Brough Superior car. There used to be two of these in the industrial museum at Wollaton Park. Maybe they are still there. The BSA car had fluid flywheel transmission. I never really understood how that worked.

 

 

[Waddo 921]

Its simply a fluid flywheel that works, in simple terms, by centrifugal force. Today you would call it a torque converter as in automatic transmission.

[Chulla 4,946]

 

 

[Willow wilson 894]

Another car with fluid flywheel and thus preselecter gearbox in those days. The Daimlers also had that type of transmission well into the 50s.

It wasn't possible to crash the gears but sometimes the pedal kicked back and you had to start again from neutral. Well the one I drove did.

[loppylugs 8,429]

By the looks of that Daimler straight eight you'd have a tough time pulling out of some blind corners.  You'd have to push the nose out quite a way before you'd get a clear view of the road.  25.7 HP seems quite low for the size of the engine.

[NewBasfordlad 3,599]

All the Saladin armoured cars and their variants had fluid couplings and pre-selector boxes and a forward/reverse lever giving 5 forward and 5 reverse gears. The fluid couplings I've seen look like 2 largish fans encased box which is filled with oil.

 

One of the drills we were taught was to be moving slowly forward and using the gear change pedal and reversing lever hit instant reverse, accelerating as you go.. Didn't do the Merc that was following me in Germany a lot of good I reversed parked on his bonnet before the commander could shout STOP!!!! Was I pleased to see the Moggie Minor of the damage claims commission.

[Willow wilson 894]

The old hp figures do seem low. Reason is in 1910 for tax reasons the Gvmnt invited the RAC to calculate the power of engines based on engine piston crown area. Over the years of development actual engine power, bhp far outstripped the RAC nominal estimates in some cases by as much as 10 times. Sometimes power was quoted in two parts, e.g. 16/80. = RAC/actual. This from Wikipedia. 

 

 

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[Willow wilson 894]

I like the flowing lines of the Ford. The earlier models had a short radiator and straight front bumper whereas later models had a deeper radiator grille with a dip in the bumper to show it off.

Hillman, Austin, Standard. How to tell all these cars apart. That was my i-spy type pastime in the 40s/50s as Dad and I walked from Bobbers Mill to Wollaton park and back via Western/Middleton boulevards on Sunday mornings.