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DDP - Reading August 1947 to June 1948. DOP - Birmingham December 1937 to Jan 1938. However, Birmingham reserved special indices for commercial vehicles and this is not one of them. So I reckon it’s a 1947/8 lorry, but no idea what. Better to date from the “peep-toe” shoes, early 50s I think...

Perhaps there is some more enlightenment here: - https://www.imcdb.org/v001066479.html Please note: ref. the bantering tone on the above website, we all know each other very well!

Some Jowetts to look at: - http://www.simoncars.co.uk/jowett/jowettcv.html btw the Jowett Bradford has front hung doors. and the door handle on the Bedford PC is lower than the styling crease in the panel.

Thanks for this. I’m glad that it’s not just me who took that sort of photograph! Let’s start with what we know for sure. That Minx is, at the latest, a Phase VIII, or VIIIA, the production of which ended in 1956. At the earliest, the grille started with the Phase VI, Anniversary Minx...

#223. From the ages of the boys, can you put an approximate date on the picture? I do not think that the vehicle has anything to do with Land Rover.

#203. Every point that you would normally use for recognition of a car is obscured. The radiator and grille are not within the frame which takes away about 90% of the information used by car spotters, and even the wheel hub, which can be quite distinctive on certain models, is obscured by the...

Picture #163, the Austin 12 Tourer. The triangle with the brake light in it is a warning to the drivers of following vehicles that your car has four wheel brakes and will be able to stop efficiently. Many cars even up to the 1920s had brakes only on the rear axle or in the transmission and were...

To quote the late Bill Boddy, founder editor of Motor Sport magazine, ”If you’d rode in a Rhode you’d have knowed!”

I was commenting upon the design of the buildings, more or less. Imagine what that street of small businesses would look like were it to have been built within say the last ten years, there would be little comparison.

What do we all think of the security, or lack of it, shown by those buildings in Gooch Street? They look quite easy to enter, weak windows relatively close to the ground, wooden entrance doors and asbestos sheet roofs. There isn’t any barbed wire strung through the top of the concrete fence...

On the left, a couple of big Austins, the front of a Thames van, and a rare Standard 8cwt pickup. I can’t do motorbikes, but we are in Brum, so could it be a Beezer? Finally, an immaculately kept Ford E493A Prefect (NUE Warks. May 1953) which must have been at least seven years old as there are...

Stephens and Bishton seem to own an Austin A40 half ton pickup from the early 1950s. At the left of the picture is a small collection of Morris Minors, including a van, and a convertible. The white car didn’t know that it wasn’t the right make, possibly an Anglebox? Gooch Street Garage has...

To try to put a positive spin on HS2, at least you will be able to get back from London more quickly.

Sorry, it’s just a common or garden Jaguar Mk VIII, and there’s another Jag facing the other way in front of the orange van. Could be Mk X or an S-type, but it’s a bit small to tell.

Just watched it. That voiceover artist should be shot! The introduction of the later, bigger engine for the A35 and Minor 1000 was indeed needed, the 803cc engine was both gutless and fragile. Those cars also had stronger transmissions to cope with the extra power and torque.

Mk1 Cortina, I think, on the left, a Humber Super Snipe and possibly a Mk1 Humber Sceptre or a Hillman Super Minx on the right.

TOL on the black Cambridge on the right gives us June/July 1956. Two A30s and a Phase 1 Vanguard also facing the camera. In the middle a well prewar Austin 10 Sherborne follows a Vauxhall Light Six. Parked on the left, a Hillman Husky, a pre 1000 Morris Minor, that van looks like it’s an...

We could have a long discussion about that, but the admins would probably send me to the same place as the Wolseley Messenger!

Yes, using the Humber Super Snipe engine tipped over at a 66 degree angle to lower the engine enough to provide a reasonably flat floor in the QX cab. That engine was 4 litres, no wonder it needed a 20 gallon tank.

I’m fairly sure that the truck front and centre is a Guy Warrior, and that the one between the buses you have correctly identified as a Commer. Those of us who were around and transport enthusiasts will instantly be recalling the noise of that three cylinder supercharged two-stroke diesel...