And yes Pedro, I remember those smogs!Not Birmingham but typical of the smogs of December 1952 from the BBC History magazine...
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Remember it well. Snow over a foot deep. No school. Played for days in the back yard of the Perry Barr police station where my dad was the resident inspector. Made a super slide, very icy, made all the bobbies nervous.Come on someone must know about the storms of 1947 :lol:
At least the diesel waxing problem had been solved by then introducing winter grade diesel which changed the cold plugging point (waxing/freezing) Unlike the winter of 62/63 when we spent weeks going out to HGV’s to bypass chassis mounted fuel filters.i remember the blizard in 1981 i was on nights and had to go out to breakdowns snow related. trying to dig and drag cars out of drifts at the nec some people left there windows open a bit and the car was full of fine snow inside.