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Mar 13, 2007 12:07:42 GMT
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1941 Wolseley Not Rod - 1956 Humber Hawk - 1957 Daimler Conquest - 1966 Buick LeSabre - 1968 Plymouth Sport Fury - 1968 Ford Galaxie - 1969 Ford Country Squire - 1969 Mercury Marquis - 1970 Morris Minor - 1970 Buick Skylark - 1970 Ford Galaxie - 1971 Ford Galaxie - 1976 Continental Mark IV - 1976 Ford Capri - 1994 Ford Fiesta
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Mar 13, 2007 12:27:26 GMT
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Ahh, I was just thinking about this the other day. 'Vans' were the shizz. We lived out in the sticks, so we had loads of 'van' options... Tuesday would be the meat van, a lovely purple & white Bedford CF dishing out proper cuts (i.e. not full of rusk, brains, water & fat like the kids eat nowadays) Coach-built jobbie, like this: Wednesday the greengrocer would arrive in a large green Commer van... this one survived till well into the 90's Like this: A similar but slightly smaller commer van came on a friday bearing yummy fish & chips.. owned by Saunders, it probably survives... their bigger chip van is often to be seen at summer shows. Library, every second friday, in a custom-bodied Ford Cargo - seemed really space age when I was 5! Coal, Ford D-series flat-bed (still working!) - Fresh Fish (Datsun Urvan / caravan thingy) - 'Healthfoods' delivered by some sandal-wearing beardy with a Mk2 Granada Wagon.... and of course the milk, fetched by a Bedford CF milk-float (a lectric float would never have made it the whole way round a rural round without running out of power)... Thems were the days....
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Mar 13, 2007 12:29:10 GMT
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Was thinking of a thread along the same lines, you beat me to it!!! My dad did door-to-door bread deliveries in the early 70's, I was the first kid in my year to have parents who owned a K-reg motor....unfortunately it was a grey PB Commer with 'Harvestime' down the side!! I remember Davenports Beer, a bit of an institution in the Midlands.....every Saturday afternoon a maroon Commer Walkthru clattered round the corner crewed by two blokes in smart burgundy uniforms dropping off crates of Brown Ale and Milk Stout at various houses. You can read the story of Davenports here. www.go-for-it.co.uk/Davenports/index.htmCorona Pop had something similar, I remember their trucks were usually BMC FG's, and yellow. Long-gone era nowadays I'm afraid aside from the inevitable rise of internet shopping which means our village is filled with agency drivers thrashing unweildy Sprinters round at 7pm each night, we still get the milkman coming around each morning, but we've been buying ours from Morrison's since year dot.
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Mar 13, 2007 12:32:04 GMT
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Yes! there is a place for it now IMO, mind it'd probbably be some dodgy operation with Drugs for sale round our way!
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it doesn't matter if it's a Morris Marina or a Toyota Celica - it's what you do with it that counts
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Mar 13, 2007 12:41:47 GMT
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we don't get our milk delivered but there is a butcher who sells meat out of a van
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Mar 13, 2007 12:51:12 GMT
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It was the Moskovich for sale thread which reminded me of this as our bread was delivered in a blue Moskovich sedan delivery van.
I spent most of my summer days (you know, when it never rained) trying to nick bottles of pop off the Corona truck. A mustardy yellow Karrier or Leyland FG if I recall. If we managed to have it away with one we'd drink the pop and then return the bottle to the local cornershop where we'd get 5p deposit back on the bottle which we'd then spend on black jacks.
My parents (being a bit posh) used to get wine delivered, came in the boot of a Mk3 Cortina GXL, I remember being impressed with that car when I was a nipper.
I also remember acompanying my dad to get off-sales from the local pub of bottles of pale ale which were sold out of a side window. Don;t seem to see that much these days either.
All manner of traders cars came to our house when I was a lad.
Window cleaner, Wedgwood blue HB Viva gardener, dark green? Reliant Supervan odd jobs man, butchers bicycle bread man, mid blue Moskovich van milk man (Kirby & West float), fish man, white Fiat van (several over the years, but I remember a 127 and a "sooty van" one) wine merchant, dark blue Mk3 Cortina Pop man, yellow Leyland or Karrier truck Coal man, big mucky ford D series (was still running in the 90s) oil man (we had oil fired central heating) large unknown tankers in green, black and gold livery
there were probably others...
Where my grandparents lived they didn't have mains sewers so they used to still have a visit from the "corporation muck cart" which was a big old Beford TK slurry pumper tanker.
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Last Edit: Mar 13, 2007 12:51:53 GMT by akku
1941 Wolseley Not Rod - 1956 Humber Hawk - 1957 Daimler Conquest - 1966 Buick LeSabre - 1968 Plymouth Sport Fury - 1968 Ford Galaxie - 1969 Ford Country Squire - 1969 Mercury Marquis - 1970 Morris Minor - 1970 Buick Skylark - 1970 Ford Galaxie - 1971 Ford Galaxie - 1976 Continental Mark IV - 1976 Ford Capri - 1994 Ford Fiesta
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Mar 13, 2007 13:02:03 GMT
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we had a white one with a red stripe that used to come round in the late '70's.can't remember what make it was tho but i do remember that you could go up the steps at the back doors and actually walk inside it with the rows of food either side of the "corridor" ! it was called 'the nimble van' for some reason.. slightly O.T but the grandparents used to send me and me sis a pound note each at easter time so we could each buy ten (yes thats right , count 'em - TEN ) cadbury creme eggs off it ;D
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Mar 13, 2007 13:06:29 GMT
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In Ipswich up until 2001 the Co-op used to deliver fruit & veg with this 1965 Smith Electric Veg Cart, that is now in the Ipswich Transport Museum. At one stage the Co-op in Ipswich had 40 carts like this.
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Mrs Sniper
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Mar 13, 2007 13:13:12 GMT
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We've still got one!
It's called Dor to Door (I guess the owner's name is Doris), an old Bedford with a Happy Shopper paint scheme. I'm not sure when she's visiting next, but I'll try and have a camera handy!
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Mar 13, 2007 13:14:54 GMT
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Amazing, isn't it?? I'm not that old (OK....I am), but it's like we're talking about another world here...
I found a bag of old photos at my dad's the other week....I will have to get them scanned....and there's one of me aged 13/14 in 1978 sat on the bonnet of my mum's Mk1 Mini in the street outside our house, there are 36 houses in that street, next to no driveways- and only maybe 4 or 5 houses had cars! My dad still lives there, nowadays when we visit we end up parking round the corner because there are no spaces whatsoever.
When I was a kid there was an old chap who lived across the road, his entire garden was given over to fruit and veg, he had an A55 van and used to sell his produce at market three times a week....then old Ronnie Anker down the road had an Old English White Austin A50, his son Pete had a Mk1 Cortina with a matt black bonnet and Lotus rims, I remember that had massive Road Runner stickers on the front doors. Some bloke at the bottom of the road had a Reliant Regal, and his lad had a Lambretta covered in mirrors, which got chopped in for a Bond Bug in about 1974 (I remember being absolutely gobsmacked by it, it was like something space-age to a 10 yr old boy!!). Aside from Mr. Tunnicliffe's Inva-car (remember those light blue phut-phuts you always saw parked round the edge of the pitch on ATV Star Soccer on sunday afternoons), that was it!!
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Last Edit: Mar 13, 2007 13:16:20 GMT by briandamaged
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Mar 13, 2007 13:19:01 GMT
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I remember the old Corona pop wagons! We were never allowed fizzy pop when I was a kid - used to upset me!
We did used to get rides up and down the road in the various milk-floats though. Great fun!
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Mar 13, 2007 13:21:15 GMT
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No mobile shop that I remember (but I'm under 30) but there isn't a milkman any more and I haven't seen a rag and bone man for years. Or any stray dogs for that matter, there always used to be stray dogs.
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Mar 13, 2007 13:22:16 GMT
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Butcher had a VW wedge.
Grocer had a hi-top mkII Tranny.
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Top grammar tips! Bought = purchased. Brought = relocated Lose = misplace/opposite of win. Loose = your mum
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Mar 13, 2007 13:24:23 GMT
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it's like we're talking about another world here... It is. A happier, warmer, safer world. With only three TV channels and no mobile phones. Did Mr Ancker get any jip for his name? When I was a lad there was a bus driver up by my cousins' place who was called Arthur Hoyle. So his busmans' badge said "A. Hoyle". Maybe you need to be proper Yorkshire to see the humour in that. Yeah, he was an A Hoyle as well. Him and his conductor chased my cousins one time when they operated the "emergency engine stop" on his bus. That was when they ran those "On The Busses" type double deckers that had to be started with a crank handle. LOL. I might have to scan some old photos some time. My best mat's mum had a Wolseley 1100 in Limeflower, his grandparents had a Simca 1501 which was brand new and well posh then. My Mum had a Mini Clubman in orange. Not so many people had cars then. I'm 37 BTW
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Last Edit: Mar 13, 2007 13:25:19 GMT by akku
1941 Wolseley Not Rod - 1956 Humber Hawk - 1957 Daimler Conquest - 1966 Buick LeSabre - 1968 Plymouth Sport Fury - 1968 Ford Galaxie - 1969 Ford Country Squire - 1969 Mercury Marquis - 1970 Morris Minor - 1970 Buick Skylark - 1970 Ford Galaxie - 1971 Ford Galaxie - 1976 Continental Mark IV - 1976 Ford Capri - 1994 Ford Fiesta
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Mar 13, 2007 13:37:02 GMT
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it's like we're talking about another world here... Did Mr Ancker get any jip for his name? Not half as much as his old man, who lived across the road, and his name was, I swear, William. Mr.W.Anker, I swear I am telling the truth, that was his name, I haven't changed the spelling or anything. In 1976 my dad went to work for the local council as a rent collector (imagine.....walking round what was then a notoriously rough council estate with a big bag full of cash, and never getting mugged......THAT'S how much this world's changed), and gradually worked his way up to Housing and Welfare Officer over the years. To earn extra money when I was doing my A-levels in the early 1980's I used to deliver the rent statements on our estate, and never managed to keep a straight face when shovelling his envelope thru the door!!
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tigran
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Mar 13, 2007 13:37:56 GMT
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It was the Moskovich for sale thread which reminded me of this as our bread was delivered in a blue Moskovich sedan delivery van. Seriously? How bizarre!
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1964 Rover P5 i6 1987 BMW 525e - The Rusty Streak 1992 Micra K10 2001 BMW E46 316i 2002 BMW E46 330Ci 2013 BMW F31 320d 2018 BMW G31 530d
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Mar 13, 2007 13:39:44 GMT
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More things you don't see in the street anymore: When I were a lad lots of folk used to sell their own produce. They'd have a little stall outside their house with punnets of strawberries, boxes of pansies, jars of honey etc. and a jam jar to put your money in to pay for it. Sorry, I am digressing. Must go and put my rose-tinted specs away. Here's a 'justification' pic: I'll have to find the pic from my folks house of me and my dad and his Marina identical to this, snapped in '79 or '80. It will have some of said roadside stalls in the frame no doubt.
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tigran
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Mar 13, 2007 13:41:26 GMT
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More things you don't see in the street anymore: When I were a lad lots of folk used to sell their own produce. They'd have a little stall outside their house with punnets of strawberries, boxes of pansies, jars of honey etc. and a jam jar to put your money in to pay for it. Couple of local biddies round here still do that, bless em.
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1964 Rover P5 i6 1987 BMW 525e - The Rusty Streak 1992 Micra K10 2001 BMW E46 316i 2002 BMW E46 330Ci 2013 BMW F31 320d 2018 BMW G31 530d
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Mar 13, 2007 13:55:46 GMT
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I was amazed a few days back cos i was at a friends when her milkman arrived, glass bottles and everything, i didnt think there were any left!
I'm 40 and i'm reasonably sure i haven't seen a milk float on the road for about 10 years.
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Volvo back as my main squeeze, more boost and some interior goodies on the way.
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tigran
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Mar 13, 2007 13:57:20 GMT
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Whenever I do all nighters where i live in bournemouth, I always give the milkman a couple of bob for a milkshake, in a glass bottle and everything.
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1964 Rover P5 i6 1987 BMW 525e - The Rusty Streak 1992 Micra K10 2001 BMW E46 316i 2002 BMW E46 330Ci 2013 BMW F31 320d 2018 BMW G31 530d
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