This ageing nonsense is getting out of hand when you have a appointment with one specialist for a problem with the right leg and another the same day with another specialist for a problem with the left leg. Fortunately, there was nothing in between that needed attention.
Used a kick starter on a car. Even tried a hand crank once.
What's a kick starter on a car? I know about hand cranks, as @Sandemaniac has old engines that start that way, but the only other ways to start a car I know about are turning a key or pushing a button.
As a child, bath night was Saturday, in a tin bath in front of the fire. The toilet was an Elsan down the garden.
Ditto, for the ex-game-keeper's cottage in mid-Sussex (1948-9), but a hut over the stream in the halfway-up-the mountain cottage in mid-Wales, described in the advert. in the Lady magazine as having "water-borne sanitation" (1945).
Used a kick starter on a car. Even tried a hand crank once.
What's a kick starter on a car? I know about hand cranks, as @Sandemaniac has old engines that start that way, but the only other ways to start a car I know about are turning a key or pushing a button.
I've known kick starters on motorbikes (do they still have them?) but not cars.
Oh yes - and double-declutching to get down into first gear.
I don't understand all of this. Surely the chauffeur stars and drives the car, your manservant handles all the cash matters - I could never handle all that dealing with trivial cash - and when I want a bath, I just told Mrs Cassidy which bathroom I wanted a hot bath and it was sorted.
Kick starter was not the right term. I was thinking pedal starter, where you used your foot to crank the engine. In old American cars it would be on the left side, just under the emergency brake. And, instead of a pedal to set the brake, you had to pull out a handle to set it.
My first car (a second- or third-hand Metro) had a manual choke. I recall Dad having problems starting it in the winter, probably because it was over a decade since he'd had to use such a thing!
I've just been out on a motorbike which requires a choke to start it (and no electric start, kick it only). Another one here requires you to tickle it before starting. There's fancy Last car I had with a choke was on an 'F' so about 88 or 89 - it would have died in my ownership I guess 20 years or so after that.
Our phone at home was a party line, so if the neighbours were using it we had to wait for an open line.
I used to cycle down to the shop for a block of ice cream, with a rectangular polystyrene container to keep it cool on the way home, as our fridge had no ice box.
Mum used to put a little blue bag of something in with the wash to keep it white.
Mr RoS had a slide rule, and thinks he still has it "somewhere".
He probably has, as I don't remember disposing of it when we moved, but we haven't set eyes on it for nearly 10 years.
I don't remember it being used for anything in the previous fifty.
When I was in second grade, so seven years old, we moved way out to the country. The phone in that house was a crank phone. I thought it was creepy and it smelled funny. We'd had a nice, modern black desk phone in the house we had just moved from.
Not too terribly long ago, I could remember our ring pattern...three shorts and two longs?? I'm getting too old to remember all that stuff!
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What's a kick starter on a car? I know about hand cranks, as @Sandemaniac has old engines that start that way, but the only other ways to start a car I know about are turning a key or pushing a button.
Ditto, for the ex-game-keeper's cottage in mid-Sussex (1948-9), but a hut over the stream in the halfway-up-the mountain cottage in mid-Wales, described in the advert. in the Lady magazine as having "water-borne sanitation" (1945).
I've known kick starters on motorbikes (do they still have them?) but not cars.
Oh yes - and double-declutching to get down into first gear.
Or was that not usual?
Then, there was the manual choke.
I remember finding a slide rule in the attic in my early teens and Dad showing me how it worked. Not sure I could still work it now.
I was, on the other hand, a dab hand with logarithms.
I used to cycle down to the shop for a block of ice cream, with a rectangular polystyrene container to keep it cool on the way home, as our fridge had no ice box.
Mum used to put a little blue bag of something in with the wash to keep it white.
Feeling ancient now.
He probably has, as I don't remember disposing of it when we moved, but we haven't set eyes on it for nearly 10 years.
I don't remember it being used for anything in the previous fifty.
My first car was an orange and white Triumph Herald. It died of galloping rust.
Not too terribly long ago, I could remember our ring pattern...three shorts and two longs?? I'm getting too old to remember all that stuff!