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Post by Sparky on Apr 28, 2021 17:32:13 GMT
BMC J4 van. A few of those in the Sweeney here and there Considered getting one myself a few years back as they looked pretty rugged. Also there's plenty of room in the back to fit in racking, some cable stillages and a small corner for a workbench.
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Post by Nightfly on Apr 28, 2021 18:03:53 GMT
The "Pop Man" used to drive round our estate doing his deliveries. I'd seen some UPS drivers more recently driving those armoured style vans they have with the side door open.
I miss the days of the mobile shops from the 60s and 70s. We had a butcher with a Ford Thames van with a side sliding door which would reveal a layered display complete with a set of weight balanced scales in the centre. There was also a grocer with a Luton van you could actually step inside and he had built a small counter. A great place to get a bag of podded peas and a packet of Tudor crisps in the 70s. The village co-op used to deliver groceries too, years before the supermarkets thought they were the first to think of online ordering. The local Co-op driver was called Halstead Battersby - which seemed like a name right from the pages of a Last of The Summer Wine script.
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Post by Sparky on Apr 28, 2021 18:51:37 GMT
The "Pop Man" used to drive round our estate doing his deliveries. I'd seen some UPS drivers more recently driving those armoured style vans they have with the side door open.
The village co-op used to deliver groceries too, years before the supermarkets thought they were the first to think of online ordering. The local Co-op driver was called Halstead Battersby - which seemed like a name right from the pages of a Last of The Summer Wine script. Or Coronation Street / Emmerdale....
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2021 18:52:29 GMT
The "Pop Man" used to drive round our estate doing his deliveries. I'd seen some UPS drivers more recently driving those armoured style vans they have with the side door open.
I miss the days of the mobile shops from the 60s and 70s. We had a butcher with a Ford Thames van with a side sliding door which would reveal a layered display complete with a set of weight balanced scales in the centre. There was also a grocer with a Luton van you could actually step inside and he had built a small counter. A great place to get a bag of podded peas and a packet of Tudor crisps in the 70s. The village co-op used to deliver groceries too, years before the supermarkets thought they were the first to think of online ordering. The local Co-op driver was called Halstead Battersby - which seemed like a name right from the pages of a Last of The Summer Wine script. Remember as a kid you'd get the van driving round. I'd always get a bottle of American creme soda and a bottle of tizer and pretty sure also he'd collect the empty bottles from ya and you'd get 5p or 10p back on each bottle!
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Post by Vienna on Apr 28, 2021 19:30:42 GMT
I miss the days of the mobile shops from the 60s and 70s. We had a butcher with a Ford Thames van with a side sliding door which would reveal a layered display complete with a set of weight balanced scales in the centre. There was also a grocer with a Luton van you could actually step inside and he had built a small counter. A great place to get a bag of podded peas and a packet of Tudor crisps in the 70s. The village co-op used to deliver groceries too, years before the supermarkets thought they were the first to think of online ordering. The local Co-op driver was called Halstead Battersby - which seemed like a name right from the pages of a Last of The Summer Wine script. I seem to remember something similar to this still going in my area until perhaps the early 90s. There was certainly a local grocer with a mobile shop. I suppose a lot of things survived a bit longer in more rural areas of the country. Vi
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Post by Three Litre on Apr 28, 2021 19:53:20 GMT
When we lived just over the border in Scotland in the 60's there was a mobile bakery van and a mobile library I seem to remember.
There was an item in local paper round here that had a guy with a mobile gym!
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Post by Steve Austin on Apr 28, 2021 20:34:46 GMT
When we lived just over the border in Scotland in the 60's there was a mobile bakery van and a mobile library I seem to remember. There was an item in local paper round here that had a guy with a mobile gym! Could have been "Brysons Bakers" who were based in Berwick-Upon-Tweed. My dad used to drive their vans and before that drove a BMC FG grocery van around the villages of the borders. I loved those vans.
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Post by Sparky on Apr 29, 2021 6:31:35 GMT
There was also the Video Man who used to go round estates with a large suitcase full of Betamax videos you could rent out. At a mates house he rolled up to see my mates Dad and half the videos in the case didn't have legit stickers on, just bits of masking tape with the title written on in marker pen.
I'll assume they were all copies.
This chap had two suitcases- one with feature films of all varieties, plus also some 8mm film cartoons and bits for those who didn't have a video. The second suitcase contained content of a slightly exotic variety, he claimed was some of the "finest" examples Swedish, Danish, Dutch and German cinema... the stuff you certainly won't see on Barry Normans programme or at your local Odeon.
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Post by Three Litre on Apr 29, 2021 8:08:08 GMT
When we lived just over the border in Scotland in the 60's there was a mobile bakery van and a mobile library I seem to remember. There was an item in local paper round here that had a guy with a mobile gym! Could have been "Brysons Bakers" who were based in Berwick-Upon-Tweed. My dad used to drive their vans and before that drove a BMC FG grocery van around the villages of the borders. I loved those vans. Could well have been metal man as we lived in Coldingham which was fairly close.
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Post by Dirty Epic on Apr 29, 2021 10:41:24 GMT
There was also the Video Man who used to go round estates with a large suitcase full of Betamax videos you could rent out. At a mates house he rolled up to see my mates Dad and half the videos in the case didn't have legit stickers on, just bits of masking tape with the title written on in marker pen.
I'll assume they were all copies.
This chap had two suitcases- one with feature films of all varieties, plus also some 8mm film cartoons and bits for those who didn't have a video. The second suitcase contained content of a slightly exotic variety, he claimed was some of the "finest" examples Swedish, Danish, Dutch and German cinema... the stuff you certainly won't see on Barry Normans programme or at your local Odeon.
I wonder if any of those tapes Video Shop's/Van's/Man had were legit?
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