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CLKD

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Growing up
« on: February 13, 2020, 07:25:15 PM »
MEMORIES from a friend:
My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in December) and he brought me an old lemonade bottle.
In the bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it. I knew immediately what it was, but my daughter had no idea.
She thought they had tried to make it a salt shaker or something. I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to 'sprinkle' clothes with because we didn't have steam irons. Man, I am old.

How many do you remember?
Headlight dip-switches on the floor of the car.
Ignition switches on the dashboard.
Trouser leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
Soldering irons you heated on a gas burner.
Using hand signals for cars without turn indicators.

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sheila99

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Re: Growing up
« Reply #1 on: February 13, 2020, 09:10:39 PM »
Man with a flag walking in front of the car?
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Re: Growing up
« Reply #2 on: February 13, 2020, 09:34:25 PM »
Quote from: sheila99 on February 13, 2020, 09:10:39 PM
Man with a flag walking in front of the car?

  ;D ;D ;D ;D

Taz x  :D
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CLKD

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Re: Growing up
« Reply #3 on: February 13, 2020, 10:01:24 PM »
 ;D
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sheila99

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Re: Growing up
« Reply #4 on: February 13, 2020, 10:45:11 PM »
And who said bicycle clips were from the past? I still have some.
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pants46

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Re: Growing up
« Reply #5 on: February 13, 2020, 11:51:57 PM »
Nooo, Sheila99, those are handcuffs, not bicycle clips !!
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« Last Edit: February 14, 2020, 12:02:41 AM by pants46 »
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CLKD

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Re: Growing up
« Reply #6 on: February 14, 2020, 09:52:06 AM »
 ;D

they weren't indicators anyway - they were called 'trafficators' - they weren't on the Austin7, Dad used hand signals; the next van had trafficators as did the Anglia Estate ........... not that I'm showing my age or ought, I remember being told  :whist:
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sheila99

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Re: Growing up
« Reply #7 on: February 14, 2020, 10:15:03 AM »
We had those on a Singer which is the first car I can remember. The ones that flip out from the door post.

 We had a glove on a pole to stick out of the window whilst towing a trailer with no lights ( it was legal at the time).
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CLKD

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Re: Growing up
« Reply #8 on: February 14, 2020, 12:16:26 PM »
Did the glove have to be held out of the driver's side?

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Re: Growing up
« Reply #9 on: February 14, 2020, 05:13:26 PM »
 ;D ;D :D Now I have to say.... Sheila... its a bit much to suggest CKLD might remember blokes walking in front of a car with a flag  ;) ;)?.what about those ones where you had put the crank on the front to start them!! CKLD....remember those ;D ;D ;D

My dad had a baby blue ford Anglia - they had the little arrows on the side!  He also had a number of "hand signals" that he used!! :)  He's never had a driving test either....came straight out the army and they gave him a licence!!
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CLKD

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Re: Growing up
« Reply #10 on: February 14, 2020, 05:22:31 PM »
Yep I remember  :lol:

The crank [starting] handle on the Austin7 and the van had the habit of kicking back  :o

It was also cold to get a grip of on a wintery day.  I think it was left in the Austin7 but Dad removed it from the van or it would clatter off.

I think it was right hand out driver's window: up and down to turn left as one was slowing down; round and round to turn right ?
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sheila99

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Re: Growing up
« Reply #11 on: February 14, 2020, 08:17:03 PM »
My OH has hand signals too - not ones that appear in the highway code though  ::).
 Round and round was to turn left - if you don't have a handy glove on a broom handle to stick out of the window....
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pants46

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Re: Growing up
« Reply #12 on: February 14, 2020, 11:10:58 PM »
Yeah Sheila, round and round was left, I think up and down meant you were slowing down. Goodness knows what the hand signal for  'emergency stop' was !!
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CLKD

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Re: Growing up
« Reply #13 on: February 15, 2020, 10:13:00 AM »
Yeeeaah.  -  that's brung back a memory  :D
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