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You're right Old English! Oxfordshire roads........, yes...... While the rest of the Country was updating their roads by widening, straightening and re-surfacing etc etc, Oxfordshire did none of this. It just blasted out the old white lines, formulated new lanes, painted new white lines - and called that 'substantial upgrading'. But still leaving the roads in Oxfordshire as a quaint reminders of how things were in the 50's.

As if either of those two thrusting executives would be seen dead in that sorry chariot.

The Lancia/Alfa/BMW is just out of shot.

Another fast lady driver ?

What’s going on here then?

Mini on Pan Am staircase

iain1967s wrote: ↑Mon Mar 01, 2021 3:04 am What’s going on here then?

Mini on Pan Am staircase

Upstairs ,first class only way to go

Ha, ha. Good call.

Rauno racing a downhill skier in a Mini , that has MG front seats

Not a 'nice period picture' but reading the newspaper report amazingly all four people in the wrecked Mini appear to have survived, along with the two rescued from the other car involved in the accident at the Blackamoor Crossroads in Blackburn!
(1970 - Lancashire Evening Telegraph)

Amazing that the front seat occupants survived that.

Mini's with the top bunk. British Road Services (BRS) Commer registation 288NJO, vehicle MA153 of Oxford depot apparently....

British Road Services Oxford Depot was in Sandy Lane.. those Commer Lorrys used to drive past me on my way to school.. can still remember the exhaust belching out blue grey smoke & that horrid smell of the two-stroke Lorry Exhaust .. photo triggered memory ..sorry i must be getting Old

Me too Norman. BRS and Howard-Tennens had the contracts to move the bodies and vehicles and lorry loads of stillages containing the parts between Swindon, Cowley and Abingdon - and back again, in the pouring rain, sleet, snow, all unsheeted, along the salt and gritted A420, A34 etc etc around these parts. Yep, we must be getting old......

Polarsilver wrote: ↑Tue Mar 16, 2021 9:04 pm British Road Services Oxford Depot was in Sandy Lane.. those Commer Lorrys used to drive past me on my way to school.. can still remember the exhaust belching out blue grey smoke & that horrid smell of the two-stroke Lorry Exhaust .. photo triggered memory ..sorry i must be getting Old

Polarsilver , Commer two stroke Oiler ( Diesel ) !!!!! wierd engine , Three cylinder , six pistons , if forum members are interested Google it , a mate of mine was restoring one , but got fed up and sold it .

goff wrote: ↑Thu Mar 18, 2021 7:52 pm

Polarsilver wrote: ↑Tue Mar 16, 2021 9:04 pm British Road Services Oxford Depot was in Sandy Lane.. those Commer Lorrys used to drive past me on my way to school.. can still remember the exhaust belching out blue grey smoke & that horrid smell of the two-stroke Lorry Exhaust .. photo triggered memory ..sorry i must be getting Old

Polarsilver , Commer two stroke Oiler ( Diesel ) !!!!! wierd engine , Three cylinder , six pistons , if forum members are interested Google it , a mate of mine was restoring one , but got fed up and sold it .

Thanks for that Never heard of it, and over the years worked on a few different makes I will have a read about it.

Commer TS3 Multifueler.

Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KmZvhxg4R4

Cutaway
https://www.enginebuildermag.com/2014/1 ... elve-dyno/

That is absolutely MENTAL!

Just as absolutely MENTAL was the BMC/BL policy of transporting complete bodyshells plus steel components, still in white metal, on unsheeted lorries, 30 miles from Swindon to Cowley and beyond on winter salted and gritted roads. I saw an MGC on Bangers and Cash last night. No wonder the body was so poor!!!!

New MGB "body in white shells" after delivery from Swindon were stood "outside in the rain " at the Pressed Steel Cowley Factory (circa year 1971) until they could be put into the Paintshop & Trimmed before shipping out to Abingdon those not painted MGB shells could be outside for weeks .. I often had a wander around that Factory and always looked at a few "Plastic" Mini Shells that were in the same location as the MG Bodyshells .. those Mini Shells looked like a mix of Fiberglass & Plastic in an early design of Mini shell ( they had no seams or guttering ) they had been there a long time as the floor had no drain holes & were filled with rainwater & looked like a pond with green gunk.
I seem to remember prototype Plastic Minis were made in UK and Chile produced plastic Minis due to high taxation within Chile.