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This must be pre-internet since they aren't using any (child) Prodigy service (or even a modem) and only single hung Windows.

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1932 Helicron car, from France. Apparently it passed the safety requirements of the time, and was approved for use on public roads...:eek:

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I've just scrapped an old car. Upon clearing it out (3 de-icer sprays, 2 jump leads, 2 wheel spanners) I also have 2 copies of the London A to Z atlas and an old Garmin type Sat Nav. No one wants either of those as all new cars have a built in Sat Nav, and if they don't people just use Google Maps (or some better online App) on their smartphones. We aren't talking about ancient history here, the A to Z was in use within the lifetime of my children, and the Sat Nav originally belonged to my son when he learned to drive! I'm more shocked at this than that no one wanted the car itself (it still went, passed it's MOT, and was ULEZ compliant!) This is just a symptom that shows how the rate of change of technology is so fast.
 
Does anyone remember these from the 1970's?

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I was just watching an old episode of Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) and Jeff Randall is using one at the start, before giving up.

My father had one with green handles rather than the brown handles shown here. Apparently, it's called a Bullworker Tensolator Isometric Exerciser, but I think other versions were first promoted by Mr. Charles Atlas as "Chest Expanders" (who ironically died following chest pains - heart disease.)

As Jeff Randall demonstrated, this Bullworker Tensolator was impossibly hard to collapse, especially as a child, as they were made for adults and far too long.

Also, who remembers Tony Holland, the TV "Musical Muscle Man" (who was remarkably skinny and un-muscled actually) but used his "maxalding muscle control technique" to make his stomach muscle move to this theme tune (Wheels Cha-Cha) on the ITV talent show Opportunity Knocks in 1964?

 
There was also Terry Crews, the Old Spice One Man Muscle Band... (just click on "Watch on YouTube")

 
Apparently, just after WW1, the Germans had a lot of spare aero-engines that they weren't allowed to use for aircraft, and were also short of coal for steam-engines, so this is what they came up with...

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Pyan said:
Apparently, just after WW1, the Germans had a lot of spare aero-engines that they weren't allowed to use for aircraft, and were also short of coal for steam-engines, so this is what they came up with...

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Given the angle of the exhaust that suggests we’re looking at the front, but I would have thought a rear-mounted ‘push’ engine would have provided better forward visibility and allowed for streamlining. The only reason for front-mounted aero engines is to increase the air flow over the wings, and thus lift. Just saying, that’s all...
 
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