Silly Car Names

[BlueAdder]

Wasn't USG's @ Hilsea a Rootes dealership? Think it was @ one stage.

Always been Vauxhall as far as I can remember. Stocked American cars (chevrolet?)with great big fins at one stage in the 50/60s.
Big Rootes dealer in Pompey was EMA in Southsea, off Elm Grove towards Palmerston Road I think, Grove Road was it?
Remember drooling over a black Sunbeam Tiger in there.

[pompeygun]

Course it was EMA's, infamous for using the vacuum pipe money delivery system, you paid for your parts & they put it in a cylinder & whoosh off it went & you had a ten minute wait for any change.

[bluekite]

My first car was a 1961 or 1962 Ford Classic. It was called Cuddles after its number plate CDL a good old Island number plate. Next car was Sophocles... a Fiat 127 number plate SFK , just had to scrap Kusie Eyes (KU51EYS) and we have acquired Elsie... LC etc.
All a bit sad really

[Southerndown]

My first car was a 1961 or 1962 Ford Classic. It was called Cuddles after its number plate CDL a good old Island number plate. Next car was Sophocles... a Fiat 127 number plate SFK , just had to scrap Kusie Eyes (KU51EYS) and we have acquired Elsie... LC etc.
All a bit sad really

Not at all Kitey, my grandfather had an old Hillman Minx number plate DKT... called it Daktari

[Corkhead]

You lot.

It's girly to give a car a. Especially these rusting deathtraps that struggle to get you from A to B we've all been describing.

Now a boat/ship that's a different thing.

[BlueAdder]

Course it was EMA's, infamous for using the vacuum pipe money delivery system, you paid for your parts & they put it in a cylinder & whoosh off it went & you had a ten minute wait for any change.

I thought that was the Landport Drapery Bazaar LDB.

No, not you Lovedean.

[bluekite]

Course it was EMA's, infamous for using the vacuum pipe money delivery system, you paid for your parts & they put it in a cylinder & whoosh off it went & you had a ten minute wait for any change.

I thought that was the Landport Drapery Bazaar LDB.

No, not you Lovedean.[/quote]
Add Hill Stores in Ryde to the vacuum pipe money delivery system... a wonder to behold to the 8 year old boy in 1954 when he had been sent shopping to buy a reel of cotton for his mum !!!

[Scoular1]

Ahh those were the days...proper shops in those days...a real Good morning sir...none of this You alright there.
And they would count the change back into your hand...none of this all worked out for them on the till

[Corkhead]

Add Hill Stores in Ryde to the vacuum pipe money delivery system... a wonder to behold to the 8 year old boy in 1954 when he had been sent shopping to buy a reel of cotton for his mum !!!

I remembers dat.

Ground floor perfumery,
stationery and leather goods,
wigs and haberdashery
kitchenware and food...going up

First floor telephones,
gents ready-made suits,
shirts, socks, ties, hats,
underwear and shoes...going up

Second floor carpets,
travel goods and bedding,
material, soft furnishings,
restaurant and teas. Going down!

[pfclassof61]

Ahh those were the days...proper shops in those days...a real Good morning sir...none of this You alright there.
And they would count the change back into your hand...none of this all worked out for them on the till

Skulls, would you rather wait in a shop behind five customers who had their weekly shopping items individually cut, weighed and wrapped - all the time chewing the fat - than shop at Aldis today?