Silly Car Names

[pfclassof61]

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!

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It's all *** with you, ain't it!

[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

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?[/quote]

Being as I were a nipper in those days,I would just sit on the complimentary chair in front of the counter.
But nobody seemed to mind in those days...for a start people only bought about 10% of what they buy today.
And time didn't seem to be a problem.

[Andy68]

I used to love my Cortina MK3! Felt like I was driving around in a living room!

I used to drive an old Commer Van, the old yellow BT ones.

Painted it Matt Black when I was a punk. On the roof was the emblem from the band Crass..

Many a weird and wonderful time had in her at festivals in the 80's.

Lost a week in her at Stonehenge once.. swear we were only there for a day..

we christened her "Dirty Doris The Can Of Chaos"

she was ace