59Impala wrote: ↑Sun Jan 17, 2021 6:40 pm
The Seddon? Very nice, have seen something like that around here on the back of a modern lorry going off to an event I guess. Their Comet was sold a while ago and both his father and grandad have passed away, his father last year was only 57. The workshop on the A52 now specialises in those bloody awful VW campers, hateful things.
Different subject, Toyopet on your posts?
Yes! I got fed up with the cow. Wonder where the Comet is now, one of my favourite lorries.
My Seddon went everywhere under its own steam, once all too literally when I set off for Liverpool on a frosty January afternoon and the heater burst 5 miles from home. It was one of those miserable fug stirrer types so the pipes were joined together and I got up there at about 10 pm, only slightly more frozen than had the thing kept working. My destination was an old tobacco factory, but the gates were shut so I settled down for an uncomfortable night across the engine cover. I can feel a photo coming on over in architectural wob.
I only remember it as half pedestrianised so you couldn't get to the shops, I'm sure it's now a five mile hike to ensure the shops are all shut. I can't quite place where that pic is, it's familiar though & I think the old RSPCA HQ would be behind the row of shops to the right.
The Horsham Carfax photo is dated 1966. That reminds me that this January (NYD) marked the 55th anniversary of the New York Transit Strike, an interesting event brought on by the inauguration of John V. Lindsay as Mayor and cost Transport Worker's Union boss Mike Quill his life. Quill and several other bosses were jailed for contempt of court in calling the strike, to which Quill responded "the judge can drop dead in his black robe". Ironically it was the 60-year-old Quill who had a heart attack and passed away a few days later, but the strikers were successful in winning a new contract.
This shows how badly those Yank cars aged when used as ordinary transport. They end up looking like old drag queens.
Quill (seated, bespectacled) and Lindsay on the right.
