Picture or Video of the day.

The Homebrew Forum

Help Support The Homebrew Forum:

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.
My oldest car i ever had was a Hillman Huskey... never saw another one. Petrol pump leaked a bit so would have to stop. Ping bonnet and loosen the brass cascalated nut on top of the glass dome to bleed, tighten down and away down the road again. Lol
 
Remember when this was a common sight :laugh8:



1649768807992.png
With the price of petrol now.... you could watch their MPG drop like a stone.
 
Why did they use letters as well as numbers?

View attachment 66484
Most phone numbers of the day (at least in the US) had exchange names such as Jackson, Vernon, etc. Your number might be JA5-8821 or VE2-9674. As a child in the 1950s, we didn't have a dial phone and relied on a live Operator. Our number, as commanded by my parents to memorize, was 828M. That was before the advent of the dial phone and phone exchanges.
 
I don't recall there being a use for letters on phones in the uk but I do recall seeing them on old black bakerlite phones.
The oldest number I recall was Hemyock 295 - my Aunts farm in Devon and that was a long time go before the exchange was automated.
 
I don't recall there being a use for letters on phones in the uk but I do recall seeing them on old black bakerlite phones.
The oldest number I recall was Hemyock 295 - my Aunts farm in Devon and that was a long time go before the exchange was automated.
Interesting - I remember from when I were a lad our number was written as SANderstead 3311 - I guess you could actually dial the letters S-A-N. But then when STD (Subscriber Trunk Dailling) was introduced it became 657-3311, which does not match the S.A.N on the dial. (It then became 01-657-3311, then (I think? ) 021, then 0131 ... lord knows what it is now. Probably a block of flats.
 
Back
Top