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![1933 Rolls-Royce 20/25 Sports Saloon Hooper [GBA47]](/i001885837.jpg)
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◊ 2024-04-17 13:22 |
FS 7515 was Edinburgh, 1933. Also has red-on-white trade plate. |
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◊ 2024-04-21 20:49 |
![[Image: 1.3.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/28413/24/1.3.jpg) ![[Image: 2.5.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/28413/24/2.5.jpg) ![[Image: 3.3.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/28413/24/3.3.jpg) ![[Image: 4.1.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/28413/24/4.1.jpg) I like the turn signal on right (picture 3) .gif ":)") -- Last edit: 2024-04-21 20:52:12 |
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◊ 2024-04-21 20:55 |
20/25. Like this? - https://www.prewarcar.com/305722-1933-rolls-royce-20-25-sports-saloon -- Last edit: 2024-04-21 20:58:20 |
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◊ 2024-04-21 21:11 |
That’s a perfectly standard trafficator. Fitted on all sorts of cars as standard equipment until the 1950s, when flashing indicators took over. Much safer than “traffs” which frequently failed to operate, or failed to light up when they did come out. My Bentley has them, so did many of my Dad’s cars. “John, has the trafficator worked?” “No Dad” “Thump the door pillar will you?” “Yes Dad” Turns into next street. “John, has it gone back in?” “No Dad, it’s stuck, and now it’s lit up”. Pulls in, grunts something unintelligible, waggles the arm until it drops back into the slot, and waggles his arm out of the window for the rest of the journey, whenever changing direction. -- Last edit: 2024-04-21 21:13:36 |
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◊ 2024-04-21 21:25 |
More likely coachwork like this: Link to "www.prewarcar.com" Look at the way the doors hang, and it’s even got trafficators in the c-pillars. -- Last edit: 2024-04-21 21:44:18 |
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◊ 2024-04-21 22:58 |
very nice modele... We perfectly see here the trafficator Link to "prewarcar.com" for those models it is the white stripes that intrigue me: is it a decoration of the coachbuilder; a fantasy of the owner or a specific recognition for a military or VIP car ? In the film, Attenborough plays the role of General Holden. Besides we know that "Monthy" had an RR that looked quite similar to this one so I think the director wanted to make the historical allusion but by deviating a little from reality... -- Last edit: 2024-04-21 23:07:52 |
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◊ 2024-04-21 23:26 |
The white paint was none of those things. During WW2 there were very strict requirements laid down by the British Government concerning street lighting, light escaping from houses into the open and the light output from motor vehicle headlamps. All of this was in order to make it as difficult as possible for any marauding bombers to realise where they were, and therefore exactly how and where to release their bombs. It was known as “The Blackout”, and blackout curtains for houses and businesses came into use, along with devices to restrict, and to adjust downwards the beams of vehicle headlights. In consequence of the outbreak of pitch darkness everywhere, it became the practice to paint the edges of mudguards, gateposts, the back mudguards of black bicycles and all sorts of similar things white, in order to enhance their visibility in the darkness. I am amazed that this is not common knowledge, but perhaps such measures were not taken everywhere. -- Last edit: 2024-04-21 23:29:45 |
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◊ 2024-04-22 00:49 |
It wasn't common knowledge to me until a few years ago. But thanks to imcdb I started noticing more and more of these painting schemes in 40s movies and so looked it up. And yes probably found in most of Europe at the time, certainly lots of Italy-based cars had similar paint. |
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◊ 2024-04-22 16:05 |
A result of the blackout in the UK was absolute carnage in road accidents, mainly involving pedestrians. from net- The king's surgeon, Wilfred Trotter, wrote an article for the British Medical Journal where he pointed out that by "frightening the nation into blackout regulations, the Luftwaffe was able to kill 600 British citizens a month without ever taking to the air, at a cost to itself of exactly nothing." (6) -- Last edit: 2024-04-22 16:11:13 |
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◊ 2024-04-23 14:45 |
https://timeandagaintheatre.com/2020/04/15/put-that-light-out-behind-the-episode/ |
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◊ 2024-04-28 09:46 |
Kindly confirmed by Tom Clarke as #GBA47. Tom adds that he has no record of the car since it appeared in this film! |
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