Showing posts with label Transport. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Transport. Show all posts
Tuesday, 21 July 2015

Advert - London Underground and Edgware (1925)

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Click to Enlarge 1925 and Edgware is the back of beyond, out there where they have to claim to have mains drainage before people will...
Friday, 9 January 2015

Advert - Lockheed Constellation aircraft (1940's)

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Click to Enlarge The Lockheed Constellation evolved from the WW2 Lockheed 10A and Hudson bomber. In April 1946 the first aircraft of ...
Friday, 2 January 2015

Advert - Welbeck Mini Cabs (1960's)

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Click to Enlarge Mini Cabs appeared on London streets in 1961 as the result of a loophole in the 1869 Carriage Act which allowed for ...
Tuesday, 9 December 2014

Advert - British Rail excursion (1940's)

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Click to Enlarge King's Cross to Doncaster for the St Leger for only £1 11s 9d (£1.58 or allowing for inflation £59.75) or if you...
Friday, 8 November 2013

Random Ad - Visit the Rhineland (1937)

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Click to Enlarge The "A Nation at Work.. Dusseldorf" exhibition dates this advert to 1937, the year Buchenwald Concentration ...
Wednesday, 30 October 2013

Random Cutting - Listening to a Wireless on a Train (1923)

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Click to Read This early attempt at the iPod certainly had it's drawbacks. 
Sunday, 8 September 2013

Duke and Duchess of York in Baltic

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Daily Sketch dated Tuesday March 19 th 1929 Click to Read The Duke and Duchess of York in the Baltic. The Duke was to become George ...
Sunday, 4 August 2013

Sinking of the General Belgrano

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Daily Mirror dated Tuesday May 4 th 1982 Click to Read A month to the day after Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands (see  post ),...
Sunday, 14 July 2013

Rommel Launches Big Blow at Americans

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Sunday Graphic dated Sunday April 4 th 1943 Click to Read Click to Read Click to Read Big blow or not, a couple of days late...
Sunday, 30 June 2013

Cigarette Price Battle

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Daily Mirror dated Tuesday September 24 th 1968 Click to Read When the front page of a newspaper features a story about a dancing mo...