From: sarahs mum
ID: 2027604
Subject: re: Chat May 2023
actually looked for old photo thread.
https://scontent-syd2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/343328331_250231460732772_2491507036773521053_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_p526×296&_nc_cat=110&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=Pm4c-_GIGcoAX-CCcqu&_nc_ht=scontent-syd2-1.xx&oh=00_AfDiIFhqVZk22dxY-fyxESr5TPpWnGd8ndgJJyWRZPyLxg&oe=645A2029
roughbarked said:
From: sarahs mum
ID: 2027604
Subject: re: Chat May 2023actually looked for old photo thread.
https://scontent-syd2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/343328331_250231460732772_2491507036773521053_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_p526×296&_nc_cat=110&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=Pm4c-_GIGcoAX-CCcqu&_nc_ht=scontent-syd2-1.xx&oh=00_AfDiIFhqVZk22dxY-fyxESr5TPpWnGd8ndgJJyWRZPyLxg&oe=645A2029
but there was a new old photo thread around here the other day wasn’t there?
Photos of old things
https://www.boredpanda.com/ancient-explorers-historical-archaeology-pics/
Photos of old people
https://www.boredpanda.com/here-i-am-down-syndrome-ageing-people-hilary-gauld/
Photos of old places
https://www.boredpanda.com/abandoned-places-pics-when-humans-leave/
Historical images
https://www.boredpanda.com/interesting-historical-photos/?all_submissions=true&media_id=2989358&utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic
https://www.boredpanda.com/old-photos-of-the-world/?all_submissions=true&media_id=3857712&utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic
https://www.boredpanda.com/rare-historical-photos/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic
The World’s Last Commercial Ocean-Going Sailing Ship – The Pamir – Rounding Cape Horn, 1949
The World’s Last Commercial Ocean-Going Sailing Ship – The Pamir – Rounding Cape Horn, 1949
PermeateFree said:
The World’s Last Commercial Ocean-Going Sailing Ship – The Pamir – Rounding Cape Horn, 1949
Need a lot of Hans to sail that mother.
PermeateFree said:
The World’s Last Commercial Ocean-Going Sailing Ship – The Pamir – Rounding Cape Horn, 1949
Peak Warming Man said:
PermeateFree said:
The World’s Last Commercial Ocean-Going Sailing Ship – The Pamir – Rounding Cape Horn, 1949
Need a lot of Hans to sail that mother.
Arts said:
Wonder why they misspelt FLIGHTS.
Tamb said:
PermeateFree said:
The World’s Last Commercial Ocean-Going Sailing Ship – The Pamir – Rounding Cape Horn, 1949
I’ve toured the Pommern at the Åland Maritime Museum on the island of Åland
What the hell were you doing there?
Bubblecar said:
Arts said:
Wonder why they misspelt FLIGHTS.
Bubblecar said:
Arts said:
Wonder why they misspelt FLIGHTS.
Also those people literally do get called computers so uh…
Peak Warming Man said:
Tamb said:
PermeateFree said:
The World’s Last Commercial Ocean-Going Sailing Ship – The Pamir – Rounding Cape Horn, 1949
I’ve toured the Pommern at the Åland Maritime Museum on the island of Åland
What the hell were you doing there?
sarahs mum said:
roughbarked said:
From: sarahs mum
ID: 2027604
Subject: re: Chat May 2023actually looked for old photo thread.
https://scontent-syd2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/343328331_250231460732772_2491507036773521053_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_p526×296&_nc_cat=110&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=Pm4c-_GIGcoAX-CCcqu&_nc_ht=scontent-syd2-1.xx&oh=00_AfDiIFhqVZk22dxY-fyxESr5TPpWnGd8ndgJJyWRZPyLxg&oe=645A2029
but there was a new old photo thread around here the other day wasn’t there?
Not all April anyway.
I’d like to see a movie of this iron horse in action
At The Controls ·
Joseph Maxx · 8 h ·
The Terpsitone, named after the muse of dance Terpsichorè, was a dance controlled instrument using the same capacitance principles of the Theremin. The Terpsitone was designed built by Leon Termen for his wife who was a dancer. The Terpsitone removed the control antena of the Theremin and replaced it with a large metal sheet hidden under the floor. Movements of the dancers in the area above the sheet caused variations in pitch of the Terpistone’s oscillators due to the capacitance of the dancers bodies. This instrument was used for several ‘exotic’ dance, music and light shows throughout the 1930’s.
Termen’s Terpsitone (1936)
sarahs mum said:
At The Controls ·
Joseph Maxx · 8 h ·
The Terpsitone, named after the muse of dance Terpsichorè, was a dance controlled instrument using the same capacitance principles of the Theremin. The Terpsitone was designed built by Leon Termen for his wife who was a dancer. The Terpsitone removed the control antena of the Theremin and replaced it with a large metal sheet hidden under the floor. Movements of the dancers in the area above the sheet caused variations in pitch of the Terpistone’s oscillators due to the capacitance of the dancers bodies. This instrument was used for several ‘exotic’ dance, music and light shows throughout the 1930’s.Termen’s Terpsitone (1936)
had look at that, I wonders if it’s all C, some L too i’d guess
rb be in later to give us the prospectors’ metal detector dance
transition said:
sarahs mum said:
At The Controls ·
Joseph Maxx · 8 h ·
The Terpsitone, named after the muse of dance Terpsichorè, was a dance controlled instrument using the same capacitance principles of the Theremin. The Terpsitone was designed built by Leon Termen for his wife who was a dancer. The Terpsitone removed the control antena of the Theremin and replaced it with a large metal sheet hidden under the floor. Movements of the dancers in the area above the sheet caused variations in pitch of the Terpistone’s oscillators due to the capacitance of the dancers bodies. This instrument was used for several ‘exotic’ dance, music and light shows throughout the 1930’s.Termen’s Terpsitone (1936)
had look at that, I wonders if it’s all C, some L too i’d guess
rb be in later to give us the prospectors’ metal detector dance
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_capacitance
transition said:
transition said:
sarahs mum said:
At The Controls ·
Joseph Maxx · 8 h ·
The Terpsitone, named after the muse of dance Terpsichorè, was a dance controlled instrument using the same capacitance principles of the Theremin. The Terpsitone was designed built by Leon Termen for his wife who was a dancer. The Terpsitone removed the control antena of the Theremin and replaced it with a large metal sheet hidden under the floor. Movements of the dancers in the area above the sheet caused variations in pitch of the Terpistone’s oscillators due to the capacitance of the dancers bodies. This instrument was used for several ‘exotic’ dance, music and light shows throughout the 1930’s.Termen’s Terpsitone (1936)
had look at that, I wonders if it’s all C, some L too i’d guess
rb be in later to give us the prospectors’ metal detector dance
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_capacitance
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioelectrical_impedance_analysis
Washington DC, probably 1890s. Unidentified woman with dog.
sarahs mum said:
Heh. Why is one of them dressed as an ironing board?
sarahs mum said:
What’s that at the back, in front of the door?
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:
What’s that at the back, in front of the door?
Probably Mother Superior?
June 1942. “Experiments in dehydration at the U.S. Department of Agriculture Western Regional Agricultural Research Laboratory in Albany, California.
Blindfold test for aroma of cooked dehydrated carrots.” Acetate negative by Russell Lee.
Need sibeen to identify the various instrument panels.
June 1942. “Watts Bar Dam, a Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) project. Control room.” Medium format acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein.
Bubblecar said:
Need sibeen to identify the various instrument panels.June 1942. “Watts Bar Dam, a Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) project. Control room.” Medium format acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein.
Wonder what Arthur’s doing now?
Nuns lighting up, no further data.
Bubblecar said:
Need sibeen to identify the various instrument panels.June 1942. “Watts Bar Dam, a Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) project. Control room.” Medium format acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein.
Looks like a better place to be than a listening post out front of the trench line on a dark night in Guadalcanal.
Will needs a year or two to grow into that suit.
Shorpy research has revealed that he was an unfortunate victim of “hazing”:
HAZERS BREAK HIS WRIST.
William Searight, Central High Freshman, Refuses to “Peach.”
While conducting a hazing bee, several pupils of the Central High School broke William Searight’s wrist. Searight, a freshman, who lives at 1737 De Sales street northwest, loyally refuses to “peach” on his tormentors, but Principal Emory Wilson is investigating the affair and expects the names of the guilty ones to-day. He had a talk yesterday with Supt. Chancellor about it and will make a report this afternoon. The “code of honor” which prevails at Central has been invoked by the boys, and the principal is finding it difficult to get at the facts.
According to the physician it will be several weeks before young Searight will be able to use his wrist.
(Washington Post — Oct. 1, 1907)
Washington, D.C., circa 1905-1908. “Searight, Will.” 5×7 inch glass negative from the C.M. Bell portrait studio.
Henry Draper (March 7, 1837 – November 20, 1882) was an American doctor and amateur astronomer. He is best known today as a pioneer of astrophotography.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Draper
Here’s the interior of his observatory, c.1880.
1910. Adelaide Observatory interior, South Australia.
Love these old observatory snaps.
HARVARD COLLEGE OBSERVATORY EXPEDITION: BOYDEN STATION, AREQUIPA, PERU, 1889–1927
The Harvard College Observatory (HCO) appointed Solon I. Bailey to find a site for a new observatory in the southern hemisphere. The goal of the new observatory would be to perform photographic surveys of the sky not visible from HCO’s northern latitude. In 1890, Bailey established the Boyden Station near Arequipa, Peru, and, between 1891 and 1927, astronomers used various telescopes and a meridian photometer to photograph stars in the southern sky and record their physical characteristics.
Women played a significant role in analyzing the data from Arequipa. Noteworthy among them was Henrietta Swan Leavitt who quantified the relationship between the brightness of Cepheid variable stars and their periods. Miss Leavitt’s period–luminosity relation became the yardstick for distance measurement to any galaxy containing Cepheid variables. Annie Jump Cannon classified stars by their spectral characteristics, and she was instrumental in creating the nine-volume Henry Draper Catalogue of visible stars in the entire sky.
https://curiosity.lib.harvard.edu/expeditions-and-discoveries/feature/harvard-college-observatory-expedition-boyden-station-arequipa-peru-1889-1927
The 24 inch Bruce Doublet at the Harvard Boyden Station in Arequipa, Peru.
Bubblecar said:
Henry Draper (March 7, 1837 – November 20, 1882) was an American doctor and amateur astronomer. He is best known today as a pioneer of astrophotography.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Draper
Here’s the interior of his observatory, c.1880.
reading that, got me to wondering what caused….the early death
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleurisy
These big boy refractors were very impressive.
The forty inch telescope of the Yerkes Observatory, 1897.
Thirty six inch Lick refractor, Lick Observatory, California, 1888.
Eccentric businessman and real estate magnate James Lick donated the $700,000 needed to build a “telescope superior to and more powerful than any telescope yet made.” A self-made millionaire bachelor with a fondness for monuments, as Lick approached old age he wanted his name and reputation to live on after his death.
…Sadly, James Lick died before the Great Lick Refractor and Lick Observatory were completed. His body is interred at the base of the Refractor, marked with a bronze plaque to honor the man and his vision.
https://www.lickobservatory.org/explore/36-inch-lick-refractor/
Bubblecar said:
Thirty six inch Lick refractor, Lick Observatory, California, 1888.Eccentric businessman and real estate magnate James Lick donated the $700,000 needed to build a “telescope superior to and more powerful than any telescope yet made.” A self-made millionaire bachelor with a fondness for monuments, as Lick approached old age he wanted his name and reputation to live on after his death.
…Sadly, James Lick died before the Great Lick Refractor and Lick Observatory were completed. His body is interred at the base of the Refractor, marked with a bronze plaque to honor the man and his vision.
https://www.lickobservatory.org/explore/36-inch-lick-refractor/
Gosh, i bet you needed your thermal underwear when making observations in that place.
Bubblecar said:
Need sibeen to identify the various instrument panels.June 1942. “Watts Bar Dam, a Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) project. Control room.” Medium format acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein.
It’s an old style encabulator. You can tell by the way the marzelvanes are attached to the wane shafts.
“For a number of years now, work has been proceeding in order to bring perfection to the crudely conceived idea of an encabulator that would not only supply inverse reactive current for use in unilateral phase detractors, but would also be capable of automatically synchronizing cardinal grammeters. Such an instrument is the turbo encabulator.
Now basically the only new principle involved is that instead of power being generated by the relative motion of conductors and fluxes, it is produced by the modial interaction of magneto-reluctance and capacitive diractance.
The original machine had a base plate of pre-famulated amulite surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing in such a way that the two spurving bearings were in a direct line with the panametric fan. The latter consisted simply of six hydrocoptic marzlevanes, so fitted to the ambifacient lunar waneshaft that side fumbling was effectively prevented.
The main winding was of the normal lotus-o-delta type placed in panendermic semi-boloid slots of the stator, every seventh conductor being connected by a non-reversible tremie pipe to the differential girdle spring on the “up” end of the grammeters.
The turbo-encabulator has now reached a high level of development, and it’s being successfully used in the operation of novertrunnions. Moreover, whenever a forescent skor motion is required, it may also be employed in conjunction with a drawn reciprocation dingle arm, to reduce sinusoidal repleneration.”
Kingy said:
Bubblecar said:
Need sibeen to identify the various instrument panels.June 1942. “Watts Bar Dam, a Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) project. Control room.” Medium format acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein.
It’s an old style encabulator. You can tell by the way the marzelvanes are attached to the wane shafts.
“For a number of years now, work has been proceeding in order to bring perfection to the crudely conceived idea of an encabulator that would not only supply inverse reactive current for use in unilateral phase detractors, but would also be capable of automatically synchronizing cardinal grammeters. Such an instrument is the turbo encabulator.
Now basically the only new principle involved is that instead of power being generated by the relative motion of conductors and fluxes, it is produced by the modial interaction of magneto-reluctance and capacitive diractance.
The original machine had a base plate of pre-famulated amulite surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing in such a way that the two spurving bearings were in a direct line with the panametric fan. The latter consisted simply of six hydrocoptic marzlevanes, so fitted to the ambifacient lunar waneshaft that side fumbling was effectively prevented.
The main winding was of the normal lotus-o-delta type placed in panendermic semi-boloid slots of the stator, every seventh conductor being connected by a non-reversible tremie pipe to the differential girdle spring on the “up” end of the grammeters.
The turbo-encabulator has now reached a high level of development, and it’s being successfully used in the operation of novertrunnions. Moreover, whenever a forescent skor motion is required, it may also be employed in conjunction with a drawn reciprocation dingle arm, to reduce sinusoidal repleneration.”
Ah…so something technical then…
High St Maitland NSW, 1960s. Photo from Old NSW Album.
sarahs mum said:
High St Maitland NSW, 1960s. Photo from Old NSW Album.
a lot of iconic brands there
sarahs mum said:
Well that’s odd. Barmy, in fact :)
sarahs mum said:
Odd.
:)
Michael V said:
Maybe it was the only way they could get mother to go out and about. Put her sewing machine on wheels.
sarahs mum said:
Odd.
:)
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
Well that’s odd. Barmy, in fact :)
Looks like the young lass has a firm grip on the handbrake.
Arts said:
you can see why they use electronic organs these days.
Arts said:
Pipes up.
Arts said:
Vmail.
(Vacuum Mail)
Spiny Norman said:
Arts said:
Vmail.
(Vacuum Mail)
Big office block.
Arts said:
sorry I forgot to include the explanation.
This picture, taken in 1947 inside the “tube room” at a Chicago department store, shows the incredibly complicated and intricate series of tubes that would transport money and other papers between departments:
Arts said:
I found these systems fascinating when I was a kid.
shelter beds, to help save you while you sleep amid a war…
stockings painters…
Anton Dostler being tied to a stake for the firing squad.. Italy, 1945
these people are Burlaks – peasant Russian folk who would haul barges and mid sized boats upstream for a fee..
selfie explanatory..
the caption for this one was ‘old school arcade’ though I suspect that some of us have seen this one in our lifetime…
how we used to keep 100 tabes open while researching (I could still use this one too)
a built in record player.. in a car… I mean.. skip much?
Arts said:
Anton Dostler being tied to a stake for the firing squad.. Italy, 1945
this is allegedly Elon Musk as a child ..
the ladies Scottish climbing club, the oldest exclusively ladies climbing club in the world, in it’s infancy…
Arts said:
the ladies Scottish climbing club, the oldest exclusively ladies climbing club in the world, in it’s infancy…Looks practical. When’s it from? Norah wore a divided skirt for horse riding in A Little Bush Maid in1910.
Arts said:
a built in record player.. in a car… I mean.. skip much?
Yeah. Otherwise they’d still be putting them in cars.
Arts said:
the ladies Scottish climbing club, the oldest exclusively ladies climbing club in the world, in it’s infancy…
Looks like lunacy.
OCDC said:
Arts said:the ladies Scottish climbing club, the oldest exclusively ladies climbing club in the world, in it’s infancy…Looks practical. When’s it from? Norah wore a divided skirt for horse riding in A Little Bush Maid in1910.
says early 1900’s
roughbarked said:
Arts said:
a built in record player.. in a car… I mean.. skip much?
Yeah. Otherwise they’d still be putting them in cars.
that doesn’t track.. since the in home style of listening has changed, so did car.. tape decks, then cd’s (I still have a CD player in my car). the modern cars have no such shenanigans.. streaming is the way to go… of course the hipsters would probs love a record player in their cars to sit near their Sriracha bottle and skinny leg jeans
Arts said:
roughbarked said:
Arts said:
a built in record player.. in a car… I mean.. skip much?
Yeah. Otherwise they’d still be putting them in cars.
that doesn’t track.. since the in home style of listening has changed, so did car.. tape decks, then cd’s (I still have a CD player in my car). the modern cars have no such shenanigans.. streaming is the way to go… of course the hipsters would probs love a record player in their cars to sit near their Sriracha bottle and skinny leg jeans
:) There was only ever the one car in my town that had this record player in it. They didn’t take off at all. Maybe they were an accessory too far in price. Despite not being very practical.
roughbarked said:
Arts said:
roughbarked said:Yeah. Otherwise they’d still be putting them in cars.
that doesn’t track.. since the in home style of listening has changed, so did car.. tape decks, then cd’s (I still have a CD player in my car). the modern cars have no such shenanigans.. streaming is the way to go… of course the hipsters would probs love a record player in their cars to sit near their Sriracha bottle and skinny leg jeans
:) There was only ever the one car in my town that had this record player in it. They didn’t take off at all. Maybe they were an accessory too far in price. Despite not being very practical.
John Lennon’s painted Rolls-Royce had a record player in it.
Arts said:
shelter beds, to help save you while you sleep amid a war…
Wish you were here..
Ian said:
Arts said:
shelter beds, to help save you while you sleep amid a war…
Wish you were here..
me too, my dude, me too.
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:
Arts said:that doesn’t track.. since the in home style of listening has changed, so did car.. tape decks, then cd’s (I still have a CD player in my car). the modern cars have no such shenanigans.. streaming is the way to go… of course the hipsters would probs love a record player in their cars to sit near their Sriracha bottle and skinny leg jeans
:) There was only ever the one car in my town that had this record player in it. They didn’t take off at all. Maybe they were an accessory too far in price. Despite not being very practical.
John Lennon’s painted Rolls-Royce had a record player in it.
That was the era.
Ian said:
Arts said:
shelter beds, to help save you while you sleep amid a war…
Wish you were here..
A ‘Morrison shelter’. Used when, for some reason, an ‘Anderson shelter’ ( the corrugated iron arch shelter, dug in to the back garden) couldn’t be utilised.
While a lot of bombing casualties were caused by blast, flying debris, and shrapnel, a lot were due to falling masonry and timbers in houses and other buildings. The Morrison shelter saved quite a few people, preserving them from being crushed, and giving rescuers time to dig them out.
If you want see where pretty much every German bomb fell on London, Oct 1940 – June 1941 (only about 28 weeks), look here:
http://bombsight.org/#13/51.4967/-0.0305
It’s staggering.
captain_spalding said:
Ian said:
Arts said:
shelter beds, to help save you while you sleep amid a war…
Wish you were here..
A ‘Morrison shelter’. Used when, for some reason, an ‘Anderson shelter’ ( the corrugated iron arch shelter, dug in to the back garden) couldn’t be utilised.
While a lot of bombing casualties were caused by blast, flying debris, and shrapnel, a lot were due to falling masonry and timbers in houses and other buildings. The Morrison shelter saved quite a few people, preserving them from being crushed, and giving rescuers time to dig them out.
If you want see where pretty much every German bomb fell on London, Oct 1940 – June 1941 (only about 28 weeks), look here:
http://bombsight.org/#13/51.4967/-0.0305
It’s staggering.
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Here’s a taste of it:
on the website, you can zoom in, and separate the dots (bomb impacts).
And, the majority of those red dots have a number on them, indicating multiple bombs in that impact, so each dot could represent one, or a dozen bombs.
Bubblecar said:
captain_spalding said:
Ian said:Wish you were here..
A ‘Morrison shelter’. Used when, for some reason, an ‘Anderson shelter’ ( the corrugated iron arch shelter, dug in to the back garden) couldn’t be utilised.
While a lot of bombing casualties were caused by blast, flying debris, and shrapnel, a lot were due to falling masonry and timbers in houses and other buildings. The Morrison shelter saved quite a few people, preserving them from being crushed, and giving rescuers time to dig them out.
If you want see where pretty much every German bomb fell on London, Oct 1940 – June 1941 (only about 28 weeks), look here:
http://bombsight.org/#13/51.4967/-0.0305
It’s staggering.
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captain_spalding said:
Here’s a taste of it:
on the website, you can zoom in, and separate the dots (bomb impacts).
And, the majority of those red dots have a number on them, indicating multiple bombs in that impact, so each dot could represent one, or a dozen bombs.
I wonder how many horses they boiled down to get the fat?
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:
captain_spalding said:A ‘Morrison shelter’. Used when, for some reason, an ‘Anderson shelter’ ( the corrugated iron arch shelter, dug in to the back garden) couldn’t be utilised.
While a lot of bombing casualties were caused by blast, flying debris, and shrapnel, a lot were due to falling masonry and timbers in houses and other buildings. The Morrison shelter saved quite a few people, preserving them from being crushed, and giving rescuers time to dig them out.
If you want see where pretty much every German bomb fell on London, Oct 1940 – June 1941 (only about 28 weeks), look here:
http://bombsight.org/#13/51.4967/-0.0305
It’s staggering.
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captain_spalding said:
Here’s a taste of it:
on the website, you can zoom in, and separate the dots (bomb impacts).
And, the majority of those red dots have a number on them, indicating multiple bombs in that impact, so each dot could represent one, or a dozen bombs.
Nasty.
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:
Here’s a taste of it:
on the website, you can zoom in, and separate the dots (bomb impacts).
And, the majority of those red dots have a number on them, indicating multiple bombs in that impact, so each dot could represent one, or a dozen bombs.
I wonder how many horses they boiled down to get the fat?
Pigs, too. Bacon fat is jolly good for making glycerin.
Arts said:
the caption for this one was ‘old school arcade’ though I suspect that some of us have seen this one in our lifetime…
in any shooting gallery where promises are made.
This is central London, around the Thames.
You can see what i mean about the numbers.
Residents of the Scottish isle of St Kilda, 1890.
The remaining original inhabitants were voluntarily evacuated in 1930, due to multiple privations and difficulties of sustaining their community.
Unfortunately they couldn’t take their working dogs with them so they were all drowned.
Bubblecar said:
Residents of the Scottish isle of St Kilda, 1890.The remaining original inhabitants were voluntarily evacuated in 1930, due to multiple privations and difficulties of sustaining their community.
Unfortunately they couldn’t take their working dogs with them so they were all drowned.
And as St Kilda went out of sight they all cried and wailed.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
Residents of the Scottish isle of St Kilda, 1890.The remaining original inhabitants were voluntarily evacuated in 1930, due to multiple privations and difficulties of sustaining their community.
Unfortunately they couldn’t take their working dogs with them so they were all drowned.
And as St Kilda went out of sight they all cried and wailed.
Aye.
>The morning of the evacuation promised a perfect day. The sun rose out of a calm and sparkling sea and warmed the impassive cliffs of Oiseval. The sky was hopelessly blue and the sight of Hirta, green and pleasant as the island of so many careless dreams, made parting all the more difficult. Observing tradition the islanders left an open Bible and a small pile of oats in each house, locked all the doors and at 7 am boarded the Harebell. Although exhausted by the strain and hard work of the last few days, they were reported to have stayed cheerful throughout the operation. But as the long antler of Dun fell back onto the horizon and the familiar outline of the island grew faint, the severing of an ancient tie became a reality and the St Kildans gave way to tears.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Kilda,_Scotland
There are well over a thousand of these old stone enclosures called cleits on St Kilda, quite unlike anything found anywhere else. Many are thought to to date from prehistoric times.
But frustratingly, their actual purpose is unknown. No-one thought to ask the last of the St Kildans what they were for, and what they knew of their history.
“All the books – and there are many – are focused on the last little bit of human habitation,” bemoans Susan Bain, Western Isles manager with the
National Trust for Scotland, which owns the islands.
“What I and the trust would like to do is show that people lived on the islands for thousands of years and we don’t want the account to be dominated by those final years leading up to the evacuation.”
“Although the evacuees were interviewed, perhaps in the 1960s, I don’t think people thought to ask about details, like the use of the cleits, and so frustratingly that knowledge may have died out within living memory,” Bain says.
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/the-riddles-of-st-kilda/
Bubblecar said:
There are well over a thousand of these old stone enclosures called cleits on St Kilda, quite unlike anything found anywhere else. Many are thought to to date from prehistoric times.But frustratingly, their actual purpose is unknown. No-one thought to ask the last of the St Kildans what they were for, and what they knew of their history.
“All the books – and there are many – are focused on the last little bit of human habitation,” bemoans Susan Bain, Western Isles manager with the
National Trust for Scotland, which owns the islands.“What I and the trust would like to do is show that people lived on the islands for thousands of years and we don’t want the account to be dominated by those final years leading up to the evacuation.”
“Although the evacuees were interviewed, perhaps in the 1960s, I don’t think people thought to ask about details, like the use of the cleits, and so frustratingly that knowledge may have died out within living memory,” Bain says.
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/the-riddles-of-st-kilda/
I posit they would be handy in the handling of sheepies.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
There are well over a thousand of these old stone enclosures called cleits on St Kilda, quite unlike anything found anywhere else. Many are thought to to date from prehistoric times.But frustratingly, their actual purpose is unknown. No-one thought to ask the last of the St Kildans what they were for, and what they knew of their history.
“All the books – and there are many – are focused on the last little bit of human habitation,” bemoans Susan Bain, Western Isles manager with the
National Trust for Scotland, which owns the islands.“What I and the trust would like to do is show that people lived on the islands for thousands of years and we don’t want the account to be dominated by those final years leading up to the evacuation.”
“Although the evacuees were interviewed, perhaps in the 1960s, I don’t think people thought to ask about details, like the use of the cleits, and so frustratingly that knowledge may have died out within living memory,” Bain says.
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/the-riddles-of-st-kilda/
I posit they would be handy in the handling of sheepies.
That was my thought as well.
roughbarked said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
There are well over a thousand of these old stone enclosures called cleits on St Kilda, quite unlike anything found anywhere else. Many are thought to to date from prehistoric times.But frustratingly, their actual purpose is unknown. No-one thought to ask the last of the St Kildans what they were for, and what they knew of their history.
“All the books – and there are many – are focused on the last little bit of human habitation,” bemoans Susan Bain, Western Isles manager with the
National Trust for Scotland, which owns the islands.“What I and the trust would like to do is show that people lived on the islands for thousands of years and we don’t want the account to be dominated by those final years leading up to the evacuation.”
“Although the evacuees were interviewed, perhaps in the 1960s, I don’t think people thought to ask about details, like the use of the cleits, and so frustratingly that knowledge may have died out within living memory,” Bain says.
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/the-riddles-of-st-kilda/
I posit they would be handy in the handling of sheepies.
That was my thought as well.
should be easy to dig a hole or two and work out whether the profile said potatoes or sheep.
roughbarked said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
There are well over a thousand of these old stone enclosures called cleits on St Kilda, quite unlike anything found anywhere else. Many are thought to to date from prehistoric times.But frustratingly, their actual purpose is unknown. No-one thought to ask the last of the St Kildans what they were for, and what they knew of their history.
“All the books – and there are many – are focused on the last little bit of human habitation,” bemoans Susan Bain, Western Isles manager with the
National Trust for Scotland, which owns the islands.“What I and the trust would like to do is show that people lived on the islands for thousands of years and we don’t want the account to be dominated by those final years leading up to the evacuation.”
“Although the evacuees were interviewed, perhaps in the 1960s, I don’t think people thought to ask about details, like the use of the cleits, and so frustratingly that knowledge may have died out within living memory,” Bain says.
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/the-riddles-of-st-kilda/
I posit they would be handy in the handling of sheepies.
That was my thought as well.
I was thinking generic domesticated animal enclosure, not sheep specifically.
I’ve read that they ate lots of seabirds and eggs. Also read that there was a budding problem with lead in the veg gardens. From shooting birds and using the rest as fertiliser.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
There are well over a thousand of these old stone enclosures called cleits on St Kilda, quite unlike anything found anywhere else. Many are thought to to date from prehistoric times.But frustratingly, their actual purpose is unknown. No-one thought to ask the last of the St Kildans what they were for, and what they knew of their history.
“All the books – and there are many – are focused on the last little bit of human habitation,” bemoans Susan Bain, Western Isles manager with the
National Trust for Scotland, which owns the islands.“What I and the trust would like to do is show that people lived on the islands for thousands of years and we don’t want the account to be dominated by those final years leading up to the evacuation.”
“Although the evacuees were interviewed, perhaps in the 1960s, I don’t think people thought to ask about details, like the use of the cleits, and so frustratingly that knowledge may have died out within living memory,” Bain says.
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/the-riddles-of-st-kilda/
I posit they would be handy in the handling of sheepies.
Thoughtful of them to shut the gate when they left.
sarahs mum said:
roughbarked said:
sarahs mum said:I posit they would be handy in the handling of sheepies.
That was my thought as well.
should be easy to dig a hole or two and work out whether the profile said potatoes or sheep.
Yep. On the other hand, they may have been used to keep the sheep off the potatoes?
sarahs mum said:
I’ve read that they ate lots of seabirds and eggs. Also read that there was a budding problem with lead in the veg gardens. From shooting birds and using the rest as fertiliser.
That’s a definite possibility. One of the scientists pulled us up while canoeing in Barrenbox swamp. Hope you blokes aren’t fishing. Why? “The fish will be toxic with high concentrations of lead from the duck shooting. That’s my job testinig the water quality and the fish”.
roughbarked said:
sarahs mum said:
roughbarked said:That was my thought as well.
should be easy to dig a hole or two and work out whether the profile said potatoes or sheep.
Yep. On the other hand, they may have been used to keep the sheep off the potatoes?
Maybe both in some sort of rotation? The sheep being penned each night would concentrate their manure in the pen. Then move the sheep on to the next pen, and after a proper interval to let the manure break down a bit they can plant potatoes in the newly fertlised walled garden.
party_pants said:
roughbarked said:
sarahs mum said:should be easy to dig a hole or two and work out whether the profile said potatoes or sheep.
Yep. On the other hand, they may have been used to keep the sheep off the potatoes?
Maybe both in some sort of rotation? The sheep being penned each night would concentrate their manure in the pen. Then move the sheep on to the next pen, and after a proper interval to let the manure break down a bit they can plant potatoes in the newly fertlised walled garden.
I think mostly the sheep would roam. But they could be brought in and sorted by who owns what sheep. Or age. Or fattening. And then they need to be held for shearing. And first times ewes sometimes get 24 hour attention in lambing.
sarahs mum said:
party_pants said:
roughbarked said:Yep. On the other hand, they may have been used to keep the sheep off the potatoes?
Maybe both in some sort of rotation? The sheep being penned each night would concentrate their manure in the pen. Then move the sheep on to the next pen, and after a proper interval to let the manure break down a bit they can plant potatoes in the newly fertlised walled garden.
I think mostly the sheep would roam. But they could be brought in and sorted by who owns what sheep. Or age. Or fattening. And then they need to be held for shearing. And first times ewes sometimes get 24 hour attention in lambing.
Yes. This is all correct. They wouldn’t be neediing to think about crutching because I doubt they had a fly problem like we do.
Photo by Givi Kikvadze and Irakli Chokhonelidze, Pitsunda, Georgian SSR, 1973.
If I had more time I could post 100s of old photos from my father’s albums or mr kii’s stepfather’s slides.
Acrobats doing their thing on top of the empire state building in 1934
Arts said:
Acrobats doing their thing on top of the empire state building in 1934
I just went weak in the knees just looking at that.
Arts said:
Acrobats doing their thing on top of the empire state building in 1934
That will take MV a while to recover from.
Frida Kahlo (in the suit). this woman was an absolute Queen, and took no shit from anyone. 1924
Arts said:
Acrobats doing their thing on top of the empire state building in 1934
You can observe which muscles each person is concentrating on to maintain their position.
In 1967 Sweden, drivers switched from left to right.. this is day one…
roughbarked said:
Arts said:
Acrobats doing their thing on top of the empire state building in 1934
You can observe which muscles each person is concentrating on to maintain their position.
When I have my head in another man’s crotch I prefer it not be at altitude.
AussieDJ said:
Arts said:
Acrobats doing their thing on top of the empire state building in 1934
I just went weak in the knees just looking at that.
MV better not even look…
But I see Witty beat me to the MV comment.
I’ll just go back to sorting my bookmarks.
Arts said:
Acrobats doing their thing on top of the empire state building in 1934
That scares the shit out of me.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Arts said:
Acrobats doing their thing on top of the empire state building in 1934
That will take MV a while to recover from.
Yep.
Arts said:
Frida Kahlo (in the suit). this woman was an absolute Queen, and took no shit from anyone. 1924
Arts said:
Frida Kahlo (in the suit). this woman was an absolute Queen, and took no shit from anyone. 1924
Looks like she stood for a bit of nonsense from her hairdresser.
Tamb said:
Arts said:
Frida Kahlo (in the suit). this woman was an absolute Queen, and took no shit from anyone. 1924
My Dad. Horn Island 1943
That’s a CAC Boomerang.
captain_spalding said:
Tamb said:
Arts said:
Frida Kahlo (in the suit). this woman was an absolute Queen, and took no shit from anyone. 1924
My Dad. Horn Island 1943That’s a CAC Boomerang.
There’s not many of those left.
captain_spalding said:
Tamb said:
Arts said:
Frida Kahlo (in the suit). this woman was an absolute Queen, and took no shit from anyone. 1924
My Dad. Horn Island 1943That’s a CAC Boomerang.
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:
Tamb said:My Dad. Horn Island 1943
That’s a CAC Boomerang.
There’s not many of those left.
Tamb said:
captain_spalding said:
Tamb said:My Dad. Horn Island 1943
That’s a CAC Boomerang.
Yes. It was before the squadron was equipped with P]40 Kittyhawks.
Oops ] = -
Tamb said:
Tamb said:
captain_spalding said:That’s a CAC Boomerang.
Yes. It was before the squadron was equipped with P]40 Kittyhawks.Oops ] = -
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:
Tamb said:My Dad. Horn Island 1943
That’s a CAC Boomerang.
There’s not many of those left.
There was never many to start with. Only 250 were built.
They were built around a 1,200 hp Twin Wasp engine, which just about everyone thought was too low in power for a fighter at the time, but wasthe only engine available in quantity.
From authorisation to get on with it to first flight of a prototype was only about 6 months, an astonishingly short time in aircraft designing.
The end result was a nimble little fighter, outstandingly manoeuvrable, and in no way outclassed by its Japanese opposition. Its design had been contributed to by an Austrian Jew who escaped from Hitler, and who well understood the characteristics of Japanese fighters.
It rarely saw air combat, but did a lot of good work in supporting ground troops with its guns. I don’t think it had provision for bombs at all.
There was one flying in Qld, i’ve seen it a couple of times.
Tamb said:
Tamb said:
Tamb said:Yes. It was before the squadron was equipped with P]40 Kittyhawks.
Oops ] = -
Another from the same period
That’s a Walrus. I really doubt that there’s any of those left.
Tamb said:
captain_spalding said:
Tamb said:My Dad. Horn Island 1943
That’s a CAC Boomerang.
Yes. It was before the squadron was equipped with P]40 Kittyhawks.
Which were a little more capable but still no match for the Zero.
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:That’s a CAC Boomerang.
There’s not many of those left.
There was never many to start with. Only 250 were built.
They were built around a 1,200 hp Twin Wasp engine, which just about everyone thought was too low in power for a fighter at the time, but wasthe only engine available in quantity.
From authorisation to get on with it to first flight of a prototype was only about 6 months, an astonishingly short time in aircraft designing.
The end result was a nimble little fighter, outstandingly manoeuvrable, and in no way outclassed by its Japanese opposition. Its design had been contributed to by an Austrian Jew who escaped from Hitler, and who well understood the characteristics of Japanese fighters.
It rarely saw air combat, but did a lot of good work in supporting ground troops with its guns. I don’t think it had provision for bombs at all.
There was one flying in Qld, i’ve seen it a couple of times.
I see that there is one being restored near Tamb – Mareeba.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAC_Boomerang#Surviving_aircraft
Tamb said:
Tamb said:
Tamb said:Yes. It was before the squadron was equipped with P]40 Kittyhawks.
Oops ] = -
Another from the same period
Flying a bit high to catch shrimps.
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:That’s a CAC Boomerang.
There’s not many of those left.
There was never many to start with. Only 250 were built.
They were built around a 1,200 hp Twin Wasp engine, which just about everyone thought was too low in power for a fighter at the time, but wasthe only engine available in quantity.
From authorisation to get on with it to first flight of a prototype was only about 6 months, an astonishingly short time in aircraft designing.
The end result was a nimble little fighter, outstandingly manoeuvrable, and in no way outclassed by its Japanese opposition. Its design had been contributed to by an Austrian Jew who escaped from Hitler, and who well understood the characteristics of Japanese fighters.
It rarely saw air combat, but did a lot of good work in supporting ground troops with its guns. I don’t think it had provision for bombs at all.
There was one flying in Qld, i’ve seen it a couple of times.
With a better engine, it could have easily outclassed the Zero.
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:
captain_spalding said:That’s a CAC Boomerang.
Yes. It was before the squadron was equipped with P]40 Kittyhawks.Which were a little more capable but still no match for the Zero.
The P-40s major failing seems to have been its Allison engine, which was never quite what was needed. The same engine was initially put into early P-51 Mustangs, which were hardly better than the P-40s. Only when the P-51 was mated with the Merlin engine did it achieve its full potential.
However, the P-40 never got anything otherthan the Allison. I wonder how a Merlin-engined P-40 might have done?
captain_spalding said:
Tamb said:
Tamb said:Oops ] = -
Another from the same periodThat’s a Walrus. I really doubt that there’s any of those left.
Long gone to history?
During the first part of the 1960s, the remaining Walrus A2-4, registered for both private use and charter work, was provided with improved radio equipment and additional passengers seating. It was used to transport tourists and cargo out to the Great Barrier Reef and along the eastern coast of Australia.
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:Yes. It was before the squadron was equipped with P]40 Kittyhawks.
Which were a little more capable but still no match for the Zero.
The P-40s major failing seems to have been its Allison engine, which was never quite what was needed. The same engine was initially put into early P-51 Mustangs, which were hardly better than the P-40s. Only when the P-51 was mated with the Merlin engine did it achieve its full potential.
However, the P-40 never got anything otherthan the Allison. I wonder how a Merlin-engined P-40 might have done?
That’s an interesting question.
Arts said:
In 1967 Sweden, drivers switched from left to right.. this is day one…
Wonder why they attempted that in the middle of the morning instead of the night whatever..
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:Yes. It was before the squadron was equipped with P]40 Kittyhawks.
Which were a little more capable but still no match for the Zero.
The P-40s major failing seems to have been its Allison engine, which was never quite what was needed. The same engine was initially put into early P-51 Mustangs, which were hardly better than the P-40s. Only when the P-51 was mated with the Merlin engine did it achieve its full potential.
However, the P-40 never got anything other than the Allison. I wonder how a Merlin-engined P-40 might have done?
Sounds like a fun thing to do.
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:Which were a little more capable but still no match for the Zero.
The P-40s major failing seems to have been its Allison engine, which was never quite what was needed. The same engine was initially put into early P-51 Mustangs, which were hardly better than the P-40s. Only when the P-51 was mated with the Merlin engine did it achieve its full potential.
However, the P-40 never got anything otherthan the Allison. I wonder how a Merlin-engined P-40 might have done?
That’s an interesting question.
Well, i have to correct myself.
I had niggling doubt about the Merlin engine thing, and checked on it.
P-40Fs did get Packard-built Merlins, but it seems that P-40s must have had other inherent failings, as the accounts say that it provided only marginal improvement over the Allison engine.
Michael V said:
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:Which were a little more capable but still no match for the Zero.
The P-40s major failing seems to have been its Allison engine, which was never quite what was needed. The same engine was initially put into early P-51 Mustangs, which were hardly better than the P-40s. Only when the P-51 was mated with the Merlin engine did it achieve its full potential.
However, the P-40 never got anything other than the Allison. I wonder how a Merlin-engined P-40 might have done?
Sounds like a fun thing to do.
If you can find
• a P40 in flying condition
• and a Merlin engine in working order.
Michael V said:
Arts said:
Acrobats doing their thing on top of the empire state building in 1934
That scares the shit out of me.
I’m sorry fiVe… unintentional trigger point.. I’ll punish myself by making myself go to work and not forum of the rest of the morning
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
captain_spalding said:The P-40s major failing seems to have been its Allison engine, which was never quite what was needed. The same engine was initially put into early P-51 Mustangs, which were hardly better than the P-40s. Only when the P-51 was mated with the Merlin engine did it achieve its full potential.
However, the P-40 never got anything other than the Allison. I wonder how a Merlin-engined P-40 might have done?
Sounds like a fun thing to do.
If you can find
• a P40 in flying condition
• and a Merlin engine in working order.
Packard built so many Merlin engines that there was a huge surplus of them, and certainly into the 1970s, you could buy a war-built Merlin, in it’s original packing case, never used.
Arts said:
Michael V said:
Arts said:
Acrobats doing their thing on top of the empire state building in 1934
That scares the shit out of me.
I’m sorry fiVe… unintentional trigger point.. I’ll punish myself by making myself go to work and not forum of the rest of the morning
:)
I’m OK now.
Ta.
:)
Michael V said:
Arts said:
Michael V said:That scares the shit out of me.
I’m sorry fiVe… unintentional trigger point.. I’ll punish myself by making myself go to work and not forum of the rest of the morning
:)
I’m OK now.
Ta.
:)
Have a Bex and a lie down, ducks.
Ian said:
Arts said:
In 1967 Sweden, drivers switched from left to right.. this is day one…
Wonder why they attempted that in the middle of the morning instead of the night whatever..
I think they may have and people just forgot.. when I drive in the USA, driving straight was ok.. but when you turned a corner I did end up on the (their) wrong, (our) correct side of the road a couple of times… scared the shit out of my passengers.. but it was just a thing that unintentionally happened to me.. so I can see how people may have messed it up…
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:Sounds like a fun thing to do.
If you can find
• a P40 in flying condition
• and a Merlin engine in working order.
Packard built so many Merlin engines that there was a huge surplus of them, and certainly into the 1970s, you could buy a war-built Merlin, in it’s original packing case, never used.
Somebody in Australia put one of those in a veteran chain-drive Crossley to make a very fast car indeed.
I’ve got a pic somewhere of an airfield in Qld, just after the end of WW2. Might be Dalby, or Roma, i dunno.
Spitfires, ‘awaiting disposal’. Rows and rows of them, wingtip to wingtip.
I believe that many were broken up at the airfield. I wouldn’t doubt that there was hot days when labouring on the breaking up was just a bit too much, and i wonder what components and how many engines were just dumped into hole.
You’d probably need a pretty good metal detector.
Arts said:
Ian said:
Arts said:
In 1967 Sweden, drivers switched from left to right.. this is day one…
Wonder why they attempted that in the middle of the morning instead of the night whatever..
I think they may have and people just forgot.. when I drive in the USA, driving straight was ok.. but when you turned a corner I did end up on the (their) wrong, (our) correct side of the road a couple of times… scared the shit out of my passengers.. but it was just a thing that unintentionally happened to me.. so I can see how people may have messed it up…
Yep. My son reported same problem the first couple of times..
Luckily he didn’t crash into anyone.
Michael V said:
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:If you can find
• a P40 in flying condition
• and a Merlin engine in working order.
Packard built so many Merlin engines that there was a huge surplus of them, and certainly into the 1970s, you could buy a war-built Merlin, in it’s original packing case, never used.
Somebody in Australia put one of those in a veteran chain-drive Crossley to make a very fast car indeed.
eek!
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:
Tamb said:Another from the same period
That’s a Walrus. I really doubt that there’s any of those left.
Long gone to history?
During the first part of the 1960s, the remaining Walrus A2-4, registered for both private use and charter work, was provided with improved radio equipment and additional passengers seating. It was used to transport tourists and cargo out to the Great Barrier Reef and along the eastern coast of Australia.
https://www.key.aero/forum/historic-aviation/140217-is-there-a-walrus-flying-boat-under-restoration-to-fly?page=0
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
captain_spalding said:Packard built so many Merlin engines that there was a huge surplus of them, and certainly into the 1970s, you could buy a war-built Merlin, in it’s original packing case, never used.
Somebody in Australia put one of those in a veteran chain-drive Crossley to make a very fast car indeed.
eek!
What did they put into the driver to give him courage to get into it?
Michael V said:
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:If you can find
• a P40 in flying condition
• and a Merlin engine in working order.
Packard built so many Merlin engines that there was a huge surplus of them, and certainly into the 1970s, you could buy a war-built Merlin, in it’s original packing case, never used.
Somebody in Australia put one of those in a veteran chain-drive Crossley to make a very fast car indeed.
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:Somebody in Australia put one of those in a veteran chain-drive Crossley to make a very fast car indeed.
eek!
What did they put into the driver to give him courage to get into it?
rocket fuel.
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:eek!
What did they put into the driver to give him courage to get into it?
rocket fuel.
Speed.
Arts said:
Ian said:
Arts said:
In 1967 Sweden, drivers switched from left to right.. this is day one…
Wonder why they attempted that in the middle of the morning instead of the night whatever..
I think they may have and people just forgot.. when I drive in the USA, driving straight was ok.. but when you turned a corner I did end up on the (their) wrong, (our) correct side of the road a couple of times… scared the shit out of my passengers.. but it was just a thing that unintentionally happened to me.. so I can see how people may have messed it up…
Similar thing happened to me a couple of times in California.
Michael V said:
Arts said:
Ian said:Wonder why they attempted that in the middle of the morning instead of the night whatever..
I think they may have and people just forgot.. when I drive in the USA, driving straight was ok.. but when you turned a corner I did end up on the (their) wrong, (our) correct side of the road a couple of times… scared the shit out of my passengers.. but it was just a thing that unintentionally happened to me.. so I can see how people may have messed it up…
Similar thing happened to me a couple of times in California.
roughbarked said:
Arts said:
Ian said:Wonder why they attempted that in the middle of the morning instead of the night whatever..
I think they may have and people just forgot.. when I drive in the USA, driving straight was ok.. but when you turned a corner I did end up on the (their) wrong, (our) correct side of the road a couple of times… scared the shit out of my passengers.. but it was just a thing that unintentionally happened to me.. so I can see how people may have messed it up…
Yep. My son reported same problem the first couple of times..
Luckily he didn’t crash into anyone.
I did pretty well after 15 minutes of confusion on the freeways out of CDG airport in Paris, including navigating the Arc de Triomphe roundabout after 3 days of driving but I had a little trouble 2 weeks later in Italy. At Lake Como I was coming out of a one way laneway and turned left into the left lane and who would be coming towards me but a Italian police car. I crossed a small traffic island and pulled up while they came over. Gave them my Vic and international driving licenses which they examined for a few minutes before letting me go. I expect they were very bemused. :-)
Witty Rejoinder said:
roughbarked said:
Arts said:I think they may have and people just forgot.. when I drive in the USA, driving straight was ok.. but when you turned a corner I did end up on the (their) wrong, (our) correct side of the road a couple of times… scared the shit out of my passengers.. but it was just a thing that unintentionally happened to me.. so I can see how people may have messed it up…
Yep. My son reported same problem the first couple of times..
Luckily he didn’t crash into anyone.
I did pretty well after 15 minutes of confusion on the freeways out of CDG airport in Paris, including navigating the Arc de Triomphe roundabout after 3 days of driving but I had a little trouble 2 weeks later in Italy. At Lake Como I was coming out of a one way laneway and turned left into the left lane and who would be coming towards me but a Italian police car. I crossed a small traffic island and pulled up while they came over. Gave them my Vic and international driving licenses which they examined for a few minutes before letting me go. I expect they were very bemused. :-)
Oops.
Ian said:
Arts said:
In 1967 Sweden, drivers switched from left to right.. this is day one…
Wonder why they attempted that in the middle of the morning instead of the night whatever..
They should have used the Irish approach.
Odd numbered plates switch on Monday.
Even numbered on Tuesday.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Ian said:
Arts said:
In 1967 Sweden, drivers switched from left to right.. this is day one…
Wonder why they attempted that in the middle of the morning instead of the night whatever..
They should have used the Irish approach.
Odd numbered plates switch on Monday.
Even numbered on Tuesday.
Seems fair.
