Old Tech thread

[Pyan]

Fun on the road, 1936-style. 90mph!

 

[Ursa major]

Neither of those images is of a vehicle with a six-foot wheelbase and an overall length of eleven feet.

 

[Bick]

Neither of those images is of a vehicle with a six-foot wheelbase and an overall length of eleven feet.

Ha - that’s exactly what I was thinking, and then I scrolled down and read your post.

 

[Parson]

I'm trying to imagine taking that "vehicle" down the road a 90 mph! Also, does the guy's leg end in a prosthesis?

 

[Ursa major]

Also, does the guy's leg end in a prosthesis?

Not until his surgery (performed as a direct consequence of that vehicle's first outing...).

 

[aaaron_m]

That looks interesting, it would be fun to ride on that.

 

[Dave]

That looks interesting, it would be fun to ride on that.

Yes, but only up to the first corner!

 

[dask]

School Bus:

 

[Vince W]

Still safer than the ones I rode.

 

[Ursa major]

Presumably, that vehicle could only travel along trunk roads....

 

[mosaix]

School Bus:

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Strange to think that all of them will grown up, maybe have had families and have now passed on. Of course, some of them will not have made it passed WWII.

 

[Pyan]

Just what you ladies need to give your life a lift...

 

[dask]

Never happened of course but should have.

 

[Pyan]

Why would you wear a hat inside a perpex dome? They also look unstable - with that traffic density, goodness knows what would happen if one fell over sideways!

 

[JunkMonkey]

I can guess why that might be. (I wasn't thinking bank charges. Businesses get charged for banking cash too.)

I didn't really mean tradesmen, I meant shopping and retail. My sister is a hairdresser and she still get's paid in cash, but the problem today is where to bank all the cash. We've just received letters this week that two more local bank branches are closing. The nearest branch is now 5 miles away. I live in suburban London. If you live somewhere more rural then that could be 20 or 30 miles away. And keeping piles of cash hidden about the house isn't a great idea from a security standpoint; even less so if you drive a lettered van and the criminals can see you might be someone who takes large amounts of cash.

I live 15 miles from my nearest bank - unless you count the mobile bank van that visits the village for a couple of hours on a Tuesday. We do have a Post Office counter in the village shop and most of our local traders deposit their cash there. Usually just in front of me when I have one small parcel to post and need to be at work in five minutes....

 

[JunkMonkey]

Why would you wear a hat inside a perpex dome?

Because it would blow off in the wind if you tried to balance it on top? I regularly wear a hat in my car. (If I'm wearing one when I get in. I don't have special driving hats.)

 

[farntfar]

I have a self inflating doll, that I bought her off the Trotters a few years back. She sits in the passenger seat and wears my hat while I'm driving.
I don't know where she'd go in one of those contraptions though.

Also. Did you notice that there is a gentleman in one of the domes in the picture, raising his hat to a lady going in the opposite direction.
Thank goodness they're maintaining their standards of etiquette, despite the new-fangled transportation.

 

[dask]

Wait until they have to repair 5G.

 

[dask]

Not so much old technology but lack of new:

 

[Lumens]

The car itself is still intact though...