Non-motoring > Look at Life - Att Pat.	Miscellaneous
Thread Author: Zero	Replies: 38

Fri 19 Apr 13 08:11   Look at Life - Att Pat. - Zero

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvd5Y_maKQc Holly smoke! I have just found on youtube a whole raft of Rank Organisation short fillers show at the cinema in the 60s This stuff is gold. Pure Gold. Do not look at this link, and the suggested ones down the right hand side unless you have days of your life to waste. I have just posted the one,you can navigate to the rest yourself. Reply to this message | Report message

Fri 19 Apr 13 08:32   Look at Life - Att Pat. - Crankcase

Time to come clean Zero. I hate you. I shall spend forever looking at these. Reply to this message | Report message

Fri 19 Apr 13 08:33   Look at Life - Att Pat. - -

Thanks for that link Z, brilliant. I'm in the middle of 'New roads for old' now. And all done without a Hi Viz in sight. Won't get much done today i fear...;) Reply to this message | Report message

Fri 19 Apr 13 08:36   Look at Life - Att Pat. - Dog

It's a cracker Mr Z Sir, I be reckoning that was the Bricklayers Arms goods depot, Lewisham Rd. at the end o vid. Pat'll know where that cafe is - she's old enough :) Good ole cockney boys see - salt-of-the earth m8! Reply to this message | Report message

Fri 19 Apr 13 08:51   Look at Life - Att Pat. - Pat

You do this on purpose, don't you Z? You know fine well I work on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays and can barely find time to keep up with the arguments and backbiting that always happen on here when I'm busy;) Now you post these, just as I'm about to leave...... Pat Reply to this message | Report message

Fri 19 Apr 13 09:04   Look at Life - Att Pat. - sherlock47

I like the 'safe driving award' certificate et al. With that pinned up in the cab it must be the driver equivalent of an albatross? Reply to this message | Report message

Fri 19 Apr 13 08:51   Look at Life - Att Pat. - Dog

Lewisham Rd. (clock tower) today: goo.gl/maps/BK2iH Reply to this message | Report message

Fri 19 Apr 13 08:58   Look at Life - Att Pat. - Dog

www.bermondseyboy.net/2010/03/27/bricklayers-arms-goods-depot/ Reply to this message | Report message

Fri 19 Apr 13 08:53   Look at Life - Att Pat. - Crankcase

I'll just bet that like the Trade Test Transmissions that were up there, they'll get pulled for "rights reasons". Get 'em whilst they're hot. Reply to this message | Report message

Fri 19 Apr 13 09:06   Look at Life - Att Pat. - Fenlander

Great find Zero. I've looked at a few. This one is personally fascinating as it briefly covers the Stilton by-pass (A1)... www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ-R-CuZlAk At 7min 8sec the garage they feature as having to close due to lack of trade became a dodgy used car dealers where I bought my third car and first P6 Rover in the mid 70s. Roll forward to today and they are a Classic Rolls & Bentley specialist. goo.gl/maps/2gRpz Extra interest for me in that Google view is when first talking about looking for an Alfa 156 I mentioned a chap who'd been to our place a few times and despite owning a business where he had huge experience of many prestige vehicles he chose to run a black diesel 156... and there it is on the front Reply to this message | Report message

Fri 19 Apr 13 09:32   Look at Life - Att Pat. - Mike Hannon

I found these LAL films a few weeks ago during a bout of insomnia and devoured them. I was too embarrassed to mention it though. Reply to this message | Report message

Fri 19 Apr 13 23:03   Look at Life - Att Pat. - BobbyG

All before my time......... Reply to this message | Report message

Sat 20 Apr 13 02:25   Look at Life - Att Pat. - Armel Coussine

Not before mine. Oh good God, the tortured scripts, the patronising uptight tone, Whoops Grandma!... unbearable back in the day, time to get an ice cream or have a slash. That and the South African travelogue, the 'full supporting prograamme' along with the Pathe News and a Bugs Bunny if you were lucky. Even so one could confess to a tiny bit of sentimental nostalgia. It wasn't so bad, being given a snooty distorted version of the bleeding obvious. I was raised on it indeed. Reply to this message | Report message

Sat 20 Apr 13 17:29   Look at Life - Att Pat. - Ambo

God bless you, Zero! I had a very good French friend called Voisin. I knew he was in some way related to the French car manfacturer of thattime and found a lovely 1934 example of one of the cars here. Not only that, but there was a photo of the founder of the company, Gabriel Voisin. The family resemblance was unmistakeable. Tears to eyes time. Reply to this message | Report message

Sat 20 Apr 13 19:36   Look at Life - Att Pat. - Zero

One for our UKIP members www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM2RmqBuSws Reply to this message | Report message

Sat 20 Apr 13 19:48   Look at Life - Att Pat. - Armel Coussine

Heh heh... sorry I was rude about it now. That did have an annoying period charm. See the Vauxhall Velox towing a trailer in the Rotterdam vegetable market? Reply to this message | Report message

Sat 20 Apr 13 22:14   Look at Life - Att Pat. - MD

Zeddo you Git. I ain't got the time, but.................... Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 23 Apr 13 21:48   Look at Life - Att Pat. - Robin O'Reliant

Love this one, The Ton Up Boys - www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYvJVyXNZKc Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 7 May 13 10:59   Look at Life - Att Pat. - Zero

The Driving test www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_-Rcqq39x4 Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 7 May 13 14:33   Look at Life - Att Pat. - FocalPoint

That one reminds me of how I got my driving licence. I started driving in a three-wheeler with reverse*, which you could drive on L-plates unaccompanied, then, when you passed (which I did - first time - at the age of 17 years 3 months), you could drive a proper car, which I did - my father's 2.4 litre Jaguar. *Not the Heinkel in the clip, but a Messerschmitt. Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 7 May 13 15:19   Look at Life - Att Pat. - Runfer D'Hills

I learned on my dad's Volvo 244. I always promised myself I'd have one of my own one day, albeit I'd have wanted an estate. Not a huge ambition I'll grant but one never yet realised. Although they do say you should never meet your heroes. The other car I coveted back then was a pagoda roofed Merc. Likewise, that hasn't happened yet. Probably for the best in both instances. Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 7 May 13 15:32   Look at Life - Att Pat. - Runfer D'Hills

Incidentally, re the "Driving Test" clip, that trick of putting a glass of water on the bonnet was the way my Dad taught me to drive in snow and ice. I now wonder if that's where he got the idea from. He of course said to use wine on the basis that if you got back home again with it intact there was a reward in store... Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 7 May 13 15:43   Look at Life - Att Pat. - No FM2R

www.thatsclassic.co.uk/for-sale/volvo-245-dl-estate/ Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 7 May 13 15:49   Look at Life - Att Pat. - Runfer D'Hills

It's got a fish on it. Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 7 May 13 15:50   Look at Life - Att Pat. - Zero

they all did. Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 7 May 13 15:53   Look at Life - Att Pat. - No FM2R

Certainly a lot of them did. Just paint a fishing rod above it. Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 7 May 13 15:55   Look at Life - Att Pat. - Runfer D'Hills

Reminds me, RP should have reported in by now. AWOL now I'd say. Probably joined some religious sect in the mid west at a guess. Taken up wearing robes and stuff. Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 7 May 13 15:58   Look at Life - Att Pat. - No FM2R

>>Taken up wearing robes I'd heard he already does that. In private, of course. Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 7 May 13 15:59   Look at Life - Att Pat. - Runfer D'Hills

Wales y'see. Odd folk. Reply to this message | Report message

Wed 8 May 13 10:06   Look at Life - Att Pat. - Alanovich

>> they all did. >> Not the ones which lived in Golders Green, driven by blokes in large hats. Which makes me wonder - do those types still exclusively buy Volvos? Or does some other manufacturer cater for the necessary interior height to accommodate the hats now? Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 7 May 13 17:08   Look at Life - Att Pat. - Runfer D'Hills

>> www.thatsclassic.co.uk/for-sale/volvo-245-dl-estate/ If you go to this guy's "contact" page there's picture of ( possibly ) AC with his Dyane... Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 7 May 13 17:23   Look at Life - Att Pat. - Zero

he's had it for only a month. the speedo is broken so the mileage is an "estimate" you cant read the service history so he has typed it up. He should be floggin this off the back of a lorry dahn the market to some mug punta Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 7 May 13 20:23   Look at Life - Att Pat. - Roger.

>> >> www.thatsclassic.co.uk/for-sale/volvo-245-dl-estate/ >> >> >> If you go to this guy's "contact" page there's picture of ( possibly ) AC >> with his Dyane... >> Looks more like the Ami than a Dyane . Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 7 May 13 21:18   Look at Life - Att Pat. - Runfer D'Hills

Aye, maybe you're right. That's the trouble with being too young to properly remember y'see. :-) Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 7 May 13 22:09   Look at Life - Att Pat. - No FM2R

An Ami 6 I think. Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 7 May 13 16:55   Look at Life - Att Pat. - bathtub tom

>> I started driving in a three-wheeler with reverse*, which you could drive on L-plates unaccompanied, >> *Not the Heinkel in the clip, but a Messerschmitt. Stop the engine and re-start it backwards? Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 7 May 13 17:44   Look at Life - Att Pat. - FocalPoint

"Stop the engine and re-start it backwards?" Yup. Amused the examiner no end. I had warned him, of course, that the three-point turn would take a little longer than usual. Reply to this message | Report message

Wed 8 May 13 09:02   Look at Life - Att Pat. - Ambo

>>Looks more like the Ami than a Dyane Yes, an Ami. I had one, bigger body than the Dyane. It had the 602cc engine, same as the 2CV I had before that, but unlike the 2CV I had before that one, which was 425cc. All very practical cars. Reply to this message | Report message

Wed 8 May 13 09:34   Look at Life - Att Pat. - Roger.

In our time we have had a Deux Chevaux and two Dyanes. I can remember, to this day, the number of our red Dyane: LLM 444P. We later had one in a sort of eau-de-nil colour - a disappointment as we had ordered, by phone, green and were expecting a Kermit The Frog shade! One glorious summer we had the roof in the rolled back position for weeks! SWMBO took neighbourhood children to school and it was always a contest to see which ones could stand on the seat, grab the crossbar and ride with their heads in the breeze! The only rule was the child had to be 6 yrs old or more - sort of a birthday treat thing! No 'elf & safety stuff about seat belts & child seats then! Reply to this message | Report message