Three Towns Forum
The Local => Times Past => Topic started by: Tosh on August 12, 2013, 10:01:45 am
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How about a Lanchester Landaulette? $donald$
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Like this?
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Trojan, the white model has the sae grille badge and ornament as the blue one, so, if you know what the white one is then you can tell us what the blue one is.
We know that you know what you know and we know that you know that we don't know what you also know, so if you know how to tell us then tell us and then we will know what you know, won't we? ZXZ
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Get a grip ME, you know very well that it's a Lanchester Launderette, or is it Manchester Launderette. _))*
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Could it be a Crossley? ^^^^
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Nope, sorry Yorkie, the Crossley badge was similar to a German Iron Cross in a green circle.
The one in question is a blue badge.
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Like this?
No, that one has halogen headlights.
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Trojan, the white model has the sae grille badge and ornament as the blue one, so, if you know what the white one is then you can tell us what the blue one is.
We know that you know what you know and we know that you know that we don't know what you also know, so if you know how to tell us then tell us and then we will know what you know, won't we? ZXZ
Okay, okay...I will stop prolonging everyone's agony, as this is not the quiz section.
The vehicle appears to be a French Delage, "D" series. (early 1930's)
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Thanks Trojan, at last! I wish I had put it in the quiz section now except I couldn't have said whether anyone was right or not!
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Thanks Trojan, at last! I wish I had put it in the quiz section now except I couldn't have said whether anyone was right or not!
You're welcome. They were quite the luxury car back in the day.
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That reminds me, I must book mine in for an MOT.
Good game Trojan.
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That reminds me, I must book mine in for an MOT.
Good game Trojan.
Be sure they check the inlet manifold connections, and all belts, hoses and gaskets.
Had to replace the water pump on mine last week.
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You know, I never even thought about the manifold connections.
As for the Hotpoint top loading automatic, I've stripped and repaired a few of them over 25 years in the trade.
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I've only known the door at the front! Even the ones my parents had in the Sixties had the door at the front!
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Some even older ones, had a wringer attached! :D
Very modern in its day!
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Aaah, the dear old Burco, Hotpoint, Hoover and Servis wringer models, what fun times we had together.
It almost makes we wish I was 25 again.
ME might remember back to his apprenticeship days at GEC when we could purchase the front loaders with staff discount.
Oh dear, is nostalgia a thing of the past?
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Oh dear, is nostalgia a thing of the past?
Nostalgia IS the past!
I remember when we had a big copper boiler in the outhouse, fired by a coal fire underneath. Then it was a rubbing board, later used with a few thimbles, by skiffle groups as an instrument. There was also the wooden "dolly" with its three legs that we used to agitate the washing in the tub. Those were the days. No electricity bills and everyone as fit as a fiddle! :D
Maybe we need a Nostalgia thread?
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Goodness gracious Yorkie, those were the days, wet washing hanging on the overhead rack in the kitchen every Monday.
Doors wide open to let the damp air out, freezing cold air rushing in.
I really miss those wonderful childhood days.
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I remember when we had our gas lights changed to electric with the DC current. The loo at the end of the garden and bath time every Saturday in the tin bath in front of the fire. I was the youngest so always had the water last, but topped up with a kettle just off the boil to warm it up a bit. I'm sure I came out dirtier than when I went in! Such was life.
No TV and a radio run from an accumulator that you had to take to be charged every so often. Or if you were a bit clever you made your own crystal set, and listened with a pair of headphones. Dick Barton et al! Memories, . . . . . . ;)
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I remember when we had a big copper boiler in the outhouse
Did she look like this? ;D
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Maybe we need a Nostalgia thread?
Nostalgia's not what it used to be...
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Opening the book of time
Pages engraved forever in my mind
Worn old pages all tattered and yellow
The house of my childhood
Memories twirling . . .
The smell of old wood and stained glass
French doors and a curved staircase
My little room
Overlooking the garden
The big claw foot bathtub
A lake to a child
The kitchen old and cozy with wonderful smells
Mom smiling . . .
A girl playing quietly on the front porch
Long hair in tangles and rosy cheeks
Grannie rocking and rocking
Dad busy in the garden humming a tune
Baby boy in his stroller sleeping
The hush of happiness . . .
A child's table set for tea and dolls sitting pretty
Real teapot and cracked china cups
Kitty cat asleep in the sun . . .
I walk the shady street of memory
The big hill where I rode my bike
At the end of the street
A park lush and still green
Where water lilies float
And white swans drift . . .
Down the street
The old church with its big doors open
I enter the gloom of my mind
Sweet the smell of candles flickering
The memories flood back . . .
All the worn old pages
All tattered and yellowed with age
I open the book of time . . .
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Thanks to Yorkie for the idea and to Nathan A for the poem. $good$
(Maybe you could move some threads into here Ian/Dave)
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I remember when we had a big copper boiler in the outhouse
Did she look like this? ;D
:laugh: L0L _))*
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Maybe we need a Nostalgia thread?
Nostalgia's not what it used to be...
L0L
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there was a wooden top on our boiler and the washing would lift it up letting out the steam, I remember my little cousin lifting the lid and putting next doors cat into the boiler before anyone could stop him, the cat gave out a loud squeal and ran off up the side of the hill, it was the last time we saw it, I remember taking the glass batteries to be recharged, they gave you a replacement for a tanner, and listening to Dan Dare on radio Luxembourg. ah nostalgia
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This is turning into.......
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo (http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo)
:laugh:
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E by gum that were good and I,m not from yorkshire
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there was a wooden top on our boiler
There was a whole bloody family on ours.
I used to watch them with my Mother. <:>
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Maybe we need a Nostalgia thread?
Nostalgia's not what it used to be...
L0L
:laugh: That's one thing I miss....British humour.
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Anyone remember the famous three star jumper from the 1970's?
I know Big Alan used to wear one whilst standing on the Kop :laugh:
To the tune of There's a Tavern in the town:
"There's a wooly over there, (over there), in his dirty underwear, (underwear), with a three star jumper half-way up his back, he's a f*****g wooly-back!"
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Then there was the Public Information films courtesy of the BBC. Some of them used to scare the living daylights out of me. In hindsight, it looks like Jimmy Saville was scarier than The Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water.
"Clunk-click, I'm really sick"
http://youtu.be/m0xmSV6aq0g (http://youtu.be/m0xmSV6aq0g)
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For washing machine connoisseurs like Tosh, my Mother had one of these Hotpoint models...Empress???
I always remember the clothes agitator used to turn alternately to the left and right, rather than spin around like modern machines.
And that shiny "gear lever" on the left was for.....taking the clothes agitator out of gear and putting the mangle into gear?
Tosh?
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Pictured is a now rare Cracker-Jack pencil given to the losing contestants on the children's BBC TV show Cracker-Jack (the winners were showered with lavish (for kids) prizes).
Spotted one on E-Bay going for around 25 quid.
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there was a wooden top on our boiler
There was a whole bloody family on ours.
I used to watch them with my Mother. <:>
L0L and so did I! :laugh:
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(Maybe you could move some threads into here Ian/Dave)
Good idea,. Nice title, BTW :-))
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Yup, it was an Empress, the smaller version was the Countess.
The black spot inside the tub on the right was where the water circulated so when you wanted to pump it out you just shoved a hose in there and pumped it into the snk, brilliant.
The chrome slider on the front left was to disengage the agitator drive and the one on the right was to operate the pump.
We used to take the gearboxes out of them to refurbish, wait for it, the rack and pinion drive system.
I think I need a lie down now.
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and wasn,t the countess made in back madoc street,
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Just found this and it really brings back some good memories, I had a good workshop and 4 brilliant lads to do my bidding.
http://wendyswashers.moonfruit.com/#/hotpoint/4512849153 (http://wendyswashers.moonfruit.com/#/hotpoint/4512849153)
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The black spot inside the tub on the right was where the water circulated so when you wanted to pump it out you just shoved a hose in there and pumped it into the snk, brilliant.
Forgot all about that. I seem to remember another "gear lever" in the compartment underneath for draining the water. Must have put the pump into drive.
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and wasn,t the countess made in back madoc street,
I didn't know Hotpoint had a workshop there. *&(
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Memory tricks here, but, I think something like the old Parnall had the pump lever inside the cabinet, not sure.
Perhaps the very earlier model had the inside lever, I'm not as old as I look or behave really.
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yes trojan it was opp ball &boyd
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When was the Madoc Street place operating? I remember Hotpoint in Craigside - I joined Hotpoint in February 1970 and a couple of years later they started making vacuum cleaners in Craigside, the old old ice-skating theatre. I worked in Design Change Control at the time and was responsible for keeping all the records of parts for the trial builds. Anyone remember my boss, a guy named George Benbow?
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this was the early 60s in back madoc st , i worked for walkers fridgedaire up craigside i remember hotpoint comming there round the back,
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I remember when we had a big copper boiler in the outhouse
Did she look like this? ;D
Drive through Radford now and then rough area in Nottingham hence the copper in the pic.
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Wasn't there a story of Washing machines leaving the site in Madoc St. in the back of Taxis, at night !!! ? &shake&