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Never a Roller, a Royce, please. The other bloke was just the salesman! Seriously, I wonder if it might have been awaiting the late Queen, it looks like a Phantom IV, and I can’t see a number plate.

1943, (approx.) International (Harvester) type K8. (Or poss. KB8, seems to be some disagreement about this.) Probably imported to the U.K. in ckd kits and assembled here. I’ll give you a date from the plate when I can find my book! GLM: London, 10/41 to 2/42. appears to be rhd, (wiper and...

https://www.waterstones.com/book/birminghams-electric-dustcarts/r-f-de-boer/9780905586076

The dustcart is electric. Where Birmingham leads others follow but sometimes it gets so far in front it forgets what it wanted to do in the first place.

No problem. The history of the British car industry overarching the war is interesting. People had more cash than ever before after earnings from industry, (except those who were called up) and a market existed. The trouble was the cars didn’t, and like the Standard Eight, prewar designs were...

Flying Eight, 1939/40. Three speed box, louvres in bonnet. Eight, 1945-48. Four speed box, no bonnet louvres, otherwise very similar. ”Flying” was a marketing thing introduced prewar for those cars built by Standard Motor Co. between 1936 and 1940. It was dropped postwar, as were many of the...

Thanks for this, FletchLA, I was told about Denis by Gibbs Pancheri, no longer with us, who came to chat at a Bentley Drivers Club meeting back in the 1980s, when I had just joined and turned up at the old office at Long Crendon in Sussex, for a drivers day. The Griffiths and Lamb connection...

Good stuff, mate. I was born in St. Chad’s, and my two brothers, all on the same day! Only me left now.

By British Bulldog do you mean ”possibly offshore maybe European bovine/canine sentient being of indeterminate gender”?

Worse still if you had to follow your dad in the tin bath after he’d been down the pit for a week!

https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/British_Heat_Resisting_Glass_Co

Our Pyrex dishes are still in regular use for cooking microwave items that need a lid, and for storage of items in the fridge. I don’t see that they are out of fashion at all.

Not only the tin bath, but the National Dried Milk tin. There would be one somewhere in most sheds, usually containing an assortment of old screws and rusty nails, if my dad’s shed was typical.

The Pop. Nothing in fashion here!

I rebuilt a Ford 10hp sidevalve engine for my Ford Popular which had suffered a failure on my way home from work. The scrapyard engine was in fair order, but we fitted new pistons and conrods which were supplied with cast in white metal big end bearings. Dad’s pal, a professional mechanic had...

Wheatstone Bridge, one of the few things I understood in A-level Physics!

The old joke that goes “I was walking through a cow pasture when my cap blew off, I tried 3 on before I found it.” Seems appropriate looking at the picture above. I see the foreman on the lower left with his bowler, and the gaffer with his trilby, pipe and moustache. Otherwise caps, caps and...

The biggest problem would be tying a Windsor for someone else, either your mate had very good spatial awareness or he stood behind you and reached over your shoulders to do it. While being able to tie a Windsor with no trouble I now have to resort to ready made dickie bows! I always think this...

Thinking about the subject of this piece, and getting ready for the day, I opened my wardrobe and looked at my collection of ties….and, fyi, I always used a Windsor knot. It is also most impressive that there has been all this conversation about slide rules, and nobody has used the term...

Excellently drawn. This sort of work makes me very green with envy. As my old dad used to say, “you’d have trouble drawing breath.” But he was a “dratter”.