Period first motors

[Penners]

four in a two seat car with no belts or air bags

When I were a teenage lad, visiting my grandparents in St Mawes, Cornwall, I used to knock about with the local yoofs. One of them had a Frogeye Sprite - the most diminutive of two-seat sports cars. We regularly used to have six of us in that car - one driving, one in the passenger seat with his girlfriend on his knee and three of us sitting on the bodywork behind the cockpit with our feet tucked down uncomfortably behind the seats.

The local bobby (PC 49 - honestly!*) often used to stop us and tell us off, but this didn't deter us.

* For those of you of a more youthful persuasion than me, PC 49 was a fictional policeman whose adventures used to be broadcast on the radio, and appeared in the Eagle comic in the late 1950s.

 

[LadyArowana]

four in a two seat car with no belts or air bags

When I were a teenage lad, visiting my grandparents in St Mawes, Cornwall, I used to knock about with the local yoofs. One of them had a Frogeye Sprite - the most diminutive of two-seat sports cars. We regularly used to have six of us in that car - one driving, one in the passenger seat with his girlfriend on his knee and three of us sitting on the bodywork behind the cockpit with our feet tucked down uncomfortably behind the seats.

The local bobby (PC 49 - honestly!*) often used to stop us and tell us off, but this didn't deter us.

* For those of you of a more youthful persuasion than me, PC 49 was a fictional policeman whose adventures used to be broadcast on the radio, and appeared in the Eagle comic in the late 1950s.

:shock: :shock: :shock: 'elf n safety! It's a miracle you survived.

 

[Penners]

It's a miracle that the entire human race managed to survive so many millennia without the ministrations of the H&S mob. And yet... somehow... we did. :|

 

[Feltwell]

Though I have to say that relatively recently - since the industrial revolution and then stepping up a gear with the invention of the internal combustion engine - we do now have a much wider choice of how to kill or seriously maim ourselves than before.

 

[Flyfisher]

It's a miracle that the entire human race managed to survive so many millennia without the ministrations of the H&S mob. And yet... somehow... we did. :|

. . . but only those with adequate common sense :wink:

 

[Penners]

It's a miracle that the entire human race managed to survive so many millennia without the ministrations of the H&S mob. And yet... somehow... we did. :|

. . . but only those with adequate common sense

How I wish that were true!

 

[jocelyn plummer]

John, Paul, George or Ringo?

 

[Flyfisher]

It's a miracle that the entire human race managed to survive so many millennia without the ministrations of the H&S mob. And yet... somehow... we did. :|

. . . but only those with adequate common sense

How I wish that were true!

I suppose 'adequate' is a rather loose term. We should remember that evolution is a continuous process and its work is never done.

Having said that, evolution is also 'blind' and there is no pre-determined goal**, so who knows what might happen in the future:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icmRCixQrx8



** other faith-systems are available

 

[Penners]

John, Paul, George or Ringo?

Not guilty, Joss! That little gem came from our salmon-fishing friend! (But I wish I'd thought of it first!)

 

[Flyfisher]

I knew I'd have to be quick. :lol:

 

[jocelyn plummer]

:lol: :lol: :lol: