Looks like the one from the film Duel
Buzzer:
Buzzer
The price of a gallon of petrol in the first picture is 4 shillings & tuppence for a gallon, 22 pence today.
The cost of a litre would have been about 1 shilling, which is just 5 pence in todays money.
Petrol today at Sainsburys was £1.73 per litre, approx £7.85 pence per gallon.
Ray.
Appy:
Looks like the one from the film Duel0
Took the words right out of my mouth, one of my favourite films, and of course, it is the one. 
Ray Smyth:
Buzzer:
BuzzerThe price of a gallon of petrol in the first picture is 4 shillings & tuppence for a gallon, 22 pence today.
The cost of a litre would have been about 1 shilling, which is just 5 pence in todays money.
Petrol today at Sainsburys was £1.73 per litre, approx £7.85 pence per gallon.Ray.
Is that not the diesel price Ray, I fill up at my local Sainsbury’s and the petrol price is £1.58 with the diesel being £1.72
DEANB:
lurpak:
Ade0
Cheers
oiltreader:
Buzzer’s pic at the docks 1955ish Ford Prefects and Major tractors wonder where they were heading. I was the proud owner of a 1954 Ford Poplar in times gone by( 1957).
Oily
I would say that photo is pre 52 as the tractors are E27Ns which ran to about 1951/52.
Dennis Javelin:
Ray Smyth:
Buzzer:
BuzzerThe price of a gallon of petrol in the first picture is 4 shillings & tuppence for a gallon, 22 pence today.
The cost of a litre would have been about 1 shilling, which is just 5 pence in todays money.
Petrol today at Sainsburys was £1.73 per litre, approx £7.85 pence per gallon.Ray.
Is that not the diesel price Ray, I fill up at my local Sainsbury’s and the petrol price is £1.58 with the diesel being £1.72
Yes Dennis, You are correct, I quoted the diesel price because I tend to observe the price pf
diesel fuel with me having a diesel car, I tend not to look at the price of petrol, perhaps I
will later this year because I am thinking of changing my car. Cheers, Ray.
Fridays pictures, the last shot of the old baler and I remember back in the day when the old man had a contractor in with his Case tractor pulling a thrashing drum with the baler on behind, it needed two men when in operation as they had a metal H iron they pushed through from one side then the wires were threaded through and the man on the other side put the wire thru an eye and tied it off with a pair of pliers and it made really heavy solid bales but a lot of hard work, Buzzer
Thanks to Stanfield, Buzzer, Appy, tyneside and lupak for the photos
Buzzer photo of the queue at the filling station… a Budget Day with the price going up at midnight, could never see the point myself, a full tankful maybe but topping up then again it might have had something to do with Nasser and the Suez Canal blockage of 1956. news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/date … 247805.stm
Oily
essexpete:
oiltreader:
Buzzer’s pic at the docks 1955ish Ford Prefects and Major tractors wonder where they were heading. I was the proud owner of a 1954 Ford Poplar in times gone by( 1957).
OilyI would say that photo is pre 52 as the tractors are E27Ns which ran to about 1951/52.
Thanks essexpete
Oily
oiltreader:
Another OZ Atki and a choice of power, credit to Jacob for the photo.
Oily
Another one with a Mk 1 style rad.
oiltreader:
An early road planer I’m guessing.
Oily
Interesting! That reminds me an machine that was never used here in France. When I arrived in London in 1965, one could seen trucks (Bonneted Scammell tractors, I think) with a trailer fitted with a kind of huge funnel blowing flames on the tarmac. They looked really frightening to the child I was at that time. Is this process still in use today? Thanks.
One for you Dennis, cheers Buzzer
