Talking Pictures TV & Cars in Films

[peter scott]

https://forums.jag-lovers.com/t/talking-...lms/370773

Peter

[Murphyv310]

Hi Peter.
I bet you went through a box of Kleenex tissues when you saw that disaster.
Like you I watch a fair bit of Talking Pictures and like to see the old cars in the films that I remember from when I was a boy. Certainly from around 1959 I was always remarking "there's an Austin 7 or a 10, Triumph Mayflower, Riley RM and many of the beauties around at the time. The number of prewar cars still around in the late 50's and 60's was quite remarkable. It was funny seeing a Mini from Dad's Ford V8 Pilot.
Watching these films and seeing the old cars and remembering most of them takes you back.
This short film too was an eye opener https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-scotlan...in-glasgow
Happy Christmas Peter and look after that SS.

[peter scott]

Hi Trevor,

Yes, the 50s and 60s were great times for seeing old cars in general use.
As to Glasgow I think the motorways through its centre are convenient but really ruined it and as for the motorway to nowhere...well?

Best wishes,

Peter

[Terry]

There's one like that in Flanders, just outside Ieper:



Why construction stopped there, I don't really know but, a few years ago, signs objecting to the A19 appeared all along the single carriageway N8 which connects Ieper to the A18/E40 motorway that runs up the coast from France.

I can't see, as it would be unlikely that the A19 extension would come anywhere near them, why so many people would object so vociferously to a scheme that would remove the HGV traffic which thunders through their towns and villages daily.

Then, just as suddenly as they'd appeared, the signs all vanished!

[Refugee]

There is an English road to nowhere too.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.843250...a=!3m1!1e3

[Terry]

But, is that deliberate? It vaguely remind me of the southern end of the Dartford tunnel approach - there was just an odd shaped roundabout at the northern end - in both cases because the planners knew that, eventually, a new road would join up with it (the M25). It was much simpler to plan ahead for it when they built the tunnel.