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General Category => Unusual Microcar Discussion => Topic started by: richard on November 12, 2011, 09:50:14 am
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a few photos from the archive ; my first 3 wheeler, my first 4 wheeler , my first 4 wheeler powered - brothers and friends, my first 4 wheeler i.c.e.
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Dear Dickie
Posting photographs of you in a dress does explain one or two things!
Chris Thomas
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ah but not all ;)
that by the way is my ROMPER SUIT we werent all wearing drainpipes and winkle pickers in 1959 :)
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Nice 'soapbox' cart. A thing rarely seen for many a year but as kids we were always scouting round for replacement parts, better technology and ideas. Like Meccano etc its where engineers came from with dad's round here only really offering safety monitoring and support in out of bounds tooling. Fun to learn the basics and all practical skills. Engineers out of books, I think not. You have to have the practical ability to start with. I never produced such a civilised one as your though. We were firmly into speed and strength for collisions having a good hill nearby and the occasion when dirty tactics would be employed.
'Dresses'. Of course. Simple to make and keep clean, less wear than trousers if you have the sort of child that is clearly perfectly happy having pranged the trike and probably into everything. I had the family baby wear including the famed 'Scotch Panties' for best. All our child's stuff is passed on for re use. Buy new, got to be loaded! Its what made Britain great and got you ready for public schooling. (I refused to go to Bristol's QEH as they had a uniform including a skirt thing and cape. Wonder if the still have?). However it will be interesting to see how much of this old stuff my Niece will use shortly. Going to be a great uncle, all the more reason to be more eccentric.
I guess the Thunderbolt is long gone?
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fraid so but i did buy another thunderbolt at a car boot - intended to restore it but never did . sold it at Beaulieu . the new owner by the way was furnished with a copy of the photo - he seemed pleased as he tucked it into his shoulder bag anyway ;)
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We were looking at the pics last night and Dave H worked out who it was. He commented that the cart looked a bit like a Gordon, which it does actually. It was destiny!
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thats one word for it ! ;D