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Title: Nostalgia trip again
Post by: Greybeard on 13.08. 2021 11:48
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Title: Re: Nostalgia trip again
Post by: Butch (cb) on 13.08. 2021 13:30
The Thunderball promo in the window is a nice touch. I guess that allows us to date this fairly closely. Wonder if they offered the rocket tubes as an optional extra?
Title: Re: Nostalgia trip again
Post by: groily on 13.08. 2021 13:36
And the plate on BOJ tells us '65 or later, probably a bit later if that was a for sale 2nd hand machine. (Dunno when Thunderball came out though!)
Nice pic
Title: Re: Nostalgia trip again
Post by: Greybeard on 13.08. 2021 13:42
Thunderball was released in 1965
Title: Re: Nostalgia trip again
Post by: groily on 13.08. 2021 15:02
Might not have got as far as York that year GB, even with rocket tubes!
Title: Re: Nostalgia trip again
Post by: Joolstacho on 14.08. 2021 01:05
Could have got the rocket tubes off a contemporary BSA Rocket 3 perhaps.
Title: Re: Nostalgia trip again
Post by: groily on 14.08. 2021 08:43
In 'evocative pic' mode still, there's a good obituary in the UK Daily Telegraph today of a young naval chap who survived a kamikaze attack on HMS Indefatigable. Sitting happily on an M20 in Sydney, Australia, after the end of hostilities. I think he had every reason to be smiling given where he'd been.
Would upload it, but having bagged it I find it's a file type that's not loadable here and I don't know how to change it.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2021/08/13/owen-lawrence-jones-naval-officer-survived-kamikaze-attack-pacific/
Title: Re: Nostalgia trip again
Post by: Greybeard on 14.08. 2021 08:52
👍
My Android tablet has a Screen Grab option.
Title: Re: Nostalgia trip again
Post by: Greybeard on 14.08. 2021 09:38
Here is another trip back in time.