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I think its a fibreglass special built on a Ford Ten or Prefect chassis, look at the wheels. See post #189.

http://blackcountryhistory.org/collections/getrecord/GB146_PHS_2693/

I know this might be tempting providence but my cassette tapes, some of which I used to play in my 1984 Ford Escort still work well. The car was bought new and only kept for two years and some of the tapes predated that car.

And yet one more! https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/wessex-auction-rooms/catalogue-id-srwess10043/lot-c16636f3-0d60-4ed8-8f59-a441017d6fac The radio it replaced. http://www.kbmuseum.org.uk/kb_images/er30/er30.htm

Another one I dumped in a skip...

I heaved one of these into a skip sometime in the late 80s...

There may be enough vaccine to give us a hope, the R rate is tending towards 1 again we hope, maybe, just maybe....

I am sorry to have taken so long to reply to you, but feel that I can do no better than direct you to here:- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixieland and here:- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_Dixieland_Jass_Band for a better answer than I can offer.

Each to his own, I have to say I thought that Tony Bennett was struggling a bit, but then again, it's a matter of personal taste and I had listened to both before I posted the 1930 version. There are, of course, many different recordings of this one stretching over many years. You can't keep a...

Cor blimey!!! I've just had to clean the steam from my glasses.

And finally.... An “orchestral” piece for Maurice.

Don’t tell him, Pike!

The Society Bands tended to be dance music outfits like Russ Morgan and Guy Lombardo, plus Shep Fields, Horace Heidt, Leo Reisman and Roger Wolfe Kahn, who played dance, rather than jazz or swing music. Some of them were attached to hotels, or were more into film type music. I suppose a British...

Thanks for the other Shaw pieces, both favourites of mine from listening to Alan Dell on Radio 2 on Monday nights. Certainly used to beat watching Coronation Street! While I realise that little of this sort of stuff appeals to modern listeners, the ability through using the net to capture...

With the hopeful stories in the news about possible vaccines to help the populace fight the pandemic, a dose of reality before they cancel Christmas:- ;);)

At various times I have been on the teams of firms exhibiting at NEC, Whale Island, Brighton Exhibition Centre, Earls Court, Olympia and at Aldershot, and once only in that Docklands Centre place. People think it’s a jolly, there might be some fun now and again, but it’s hard on the feet, the...

The 1962 advert shows grilles for the Ford Anglia Deluxe, the then brand new Ford Cortina, again deluxe, and what I think might be the Triumph TR4.

Empire Day.

Thanks for the laugh Lyn, I am glad I didn’t offend you, but I thought it was funny. You’ve got 6 months before you can get your own back!

Did Neil Sedaka turn into Charles Emerson Winchester III in later life? https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-ln-david-ogden-obit-20180303-story.html