General Apathy Posted May 20, 2022 Share #20851 Posted May 20, 2022 . Hire / Rental cars in France for anniversary week . . . . . . . . 🚗 🚖 🚙 It's reported in the French newspapers that there is a desperate lack of cars to hire or rent during June in Normandy, due to two years lack of tourists during the Covid Pandemic the garages and hire places have sold off their stocks of cars and finding it hard now to re-stock ready for visitors from abroad. It's suggested that anyone visiting Normandy this summer phone ahead well in time and pre-order a hire car in-order to not be disappointed on arrival. . . . . . . Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, May 20 2022. .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted May 21, 2022 Share #20852 Posted May 21, 2022 18 hours ago, earlymb said: Just came across this interesting photo, captioned 'A soldier guards a trolley during the 1944 Philadelphia Transit Strike'. Of note are that pack and gasmask carrier are worn, and most of all that helmet net. . Hi earlymb, weird that ' pararafta ' appears to be able to see your photo, this is all I can see a small blue box with a question mark, tried opening the page and still nothing happens. . Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, May 21 2022. .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pararaftanr2 Posted May 21, 2022 Share #20853 Posted May 21, 2022 1 hour ago, General Apathy said: . Hi earlymb, weird that ' pararafta ' appears to be able to see your photo, this is all I can see a small blue box with a question mark, tried opening the page and still nothing happens. . Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, May 21 2022. .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
earlymb Posted May 21, 2022 Share #20854 Posted May 21, 2022 2 hours ago, General Apathy said: . Hi earlymb, weird that ' pararafta ' appears to be able to see your photo, this is all I can see a small blue box with a question mark, tried opening the page and still nothing happens. . Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, May 21 2022. .. Hi Ken, it might be you can't see this type of extention, but above parara changed it into a .jpg which should work fine for you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted May 21, 2022 Share #20855 Posted May 21, 2022 2 hours ago, pararaftanr2 said: . Hi paragrafta. Thanks for adding an image that I can see, interesting that his carbine is not loaded with a magazine, and it's possible to see other cars through the rear windshield . . . . . . and the ' hobby-lobby ' net . . . . . . . . . . Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, May 21 2022. .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikie Posted May 21, 2022 Share #20856 Posted May 21, 2022 On 5/18/2022 at 12:35 AM, General Apathy said: try to have fun while working . . . . . . I spotted this a couple of weeks ago and talking to the farmer / owner discovered that technically it's not road legal he said however that it will do 55kph on a hardtop road. He uses it on his farm he can carry two square bales of hay out to his fields, he had some impressive video of it roaring along muddy farm tracks similar to a quad-bike. Made in China . . . . . . . . . Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, May 18 2022. ... That baby jeep is sooooooo cute! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted May 21, 2022 Share #20857 Posted May 21, 2022 27 minutes ago, mikie said: That baby jeep is sooooooo cute! you need one Mikie. WOnt take up much room either 😉😊 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikie Posted May 21, 2022 Share #20858 Posted May 21, 2022 59 minutes ago, doyler said: you need one Mikie. WOnt take up much room either 😉😊 😆 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted May 22, 2022 Share #20859 Posted May 22, 2022 One for Ken Then and Now; Small petrol station in Moreton-In-Marsh, Gloucestershire, England - May 1944 Note the pair of soldiers in the left background Original Color Picture from LIFE Magazine Archives - Frank Scherschel Photographer Present Day Picture from Google Earth Street View, note the fuel pumps are gone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted May 23, 2022 Share #20860 Posted May 23, 2022 12 hours ago, doyler said: One for Ken Then and Now; Small petrol station in Moreton-In-Marsh, Gloucestershire, England - May 1944 Note the pair of soldiers in the left background Original Color Picture from LIFE Magazine Archives - Frank Scherschel Photographer Present Day Picture from Google Earth Street View, note the fuel pumps are gone , Hi Ron, Can't tell you how great these shots are I am very familiar with Moreton in the Marsh, I lived not far from it and Gloucestershire was my playground, the first girlfriend I lived with ( Derrie ) came from Tetbury thirty miles away, we visited the pubs and restaurant in Moreton many times in the Jeep. There are many other shots of U.S. military vehicles and supplies stacked in the main square of Moreton prior to D-Day. . Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, May 23 2022. .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted May 23, 2022 Share #20861 Posted May 23, 2022 13 hours ago, doyler said: One for Ken Then and Now; Small petrol station in Moreton-In-Marsh, Gloucestershire, England - May 1944 Note the pair of soldiers in the left background Original Color Picture from LIFE Magazine Archives - Frank Scherschel Photographer Present Day Picture from Google Earth Street View, note the fuel pumps are gone . Hi Ron, The ' small ' petrol station in fact has pumps for four separate petroleum companies, another one of my hobbies ' Petroliana ' garage and petrol company adverts. Pump first left ' Esso ' Pump second left ' National Benzole ' Pump third left ' Unknown Brand ' pump far right ' Shell ' Post war the pumps were replaced with more modern ones and in the second image a National Benzole pump and globe can be seen. I have several enamelled adverts for various petrol companies, National Benzole ones shown below. . Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, May 23 2022. .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted May 23, 2022 Share #20862 Posted May 23, 2022 . While talking of petrol stations etc . . . . . . another story This is the current appearance of a petrol station I passed in the early 1970's when it was still a very small prewar petrol station and repair shop. I spotted in the far right corner of the car-park a wartime slat-grille Willy's Jeep stood next to a strange looking Rolls-Royce, I pulled over and ran back to the garage and spoke to the owner asking if the Jeep was for sale, which it wasn't, the background story was that they had bought it as surplus in 1947 and converted the rear to a pick-up body for garage work with an ash framed two seat cab with doors and sliding windows. When I say the Rolls-Royce was strange I believe it was a 1903 / 1909 model and the chrome front grille had horizontal bars and not vertical as normal later models. Holes had been cut in the roof in several places with scaffolding bars extended through supporting a crane jib overhanging the rear, it was used for towing in broken down cars. I mentioned the Jeep to another older Jeeping friend and he said that he had tried previously to buy the Jeep and the owner would never sell it. Well times change and sometime later I was passing the garage again and I spotted the owner talking with another person in front of the Rolls-Royce, so I pulled over and ran across, the garage owner asked if he could help me, I said are you selling the Rolls-Royce and he confirmed he was, so I continued with will you also be selling the Jeep as well. Ten minutes later I was the new owner of the slat-grille for the amount of £35. I also acquired an original 1942 manual with several pages of Russian description in the rear for when they were supplied directly to Russia for Lend-Lease war-aid. I kept the Slat-grille for many years and eventually sold it about sixteen years ago before I moved to France, it has been sold twice more since then and is currently based over here in France about thirty kilometres from me, another six degrees of separation story. Sadly I never photographed the quaint petrol station / garage at the time I bought the Jeep, so this is it's current facade. . Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, May 23 2022. .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted May 23, 2022 Share #20863 Posted May 23, 2022 5 hours ago, General Apathy said: . Hi Ron, The ' small ' petrol station in fact has pumps for four separate petroleum companies, another one of my hobbies ' Petroliana ' garage and petrol company adverts. Pump first left ' Esso ' Pump second left ' National Benzole ' Pump third left ' Unknown Brand ' pump far right ' Shell ' Post war the pumps were replaced with more modern ones and in the second image a National Benzole pump and globe can be seen. I have several enamelled adverts for various petrol companies, National Benzole ones shown below. . Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, May 23 2022. .. Thanks for all the added info. I like to old "clock face" pumps in the war time photo. Its quite popular here as well to restore pumps and have them displayed. Some even make cabinets out of them for carious things. Signs are a expensive hobby here as well and if course over ran with reproductions. Fakery on all areas of collecting is the norm. Actually the person who developed the Tokheim pump lived right here in the area and family are still here as well. There was a small gas station in the town for years. https://tokheimco.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted May 24, 2022 Share #20864 Posted May 24, 2022 17 hours ago, doyler said: Thanks for all the added info. https://tokheimco.com/ . Hi Ron, some further information for you from Ian a UK friend that lives in Cheltenham about fifteen miles from Moreton in the Marsh Hi Ken, now your in my part of the world, we go there quite often, they have a street market every Monday, the tanks are part of the 6th armored division, part of Patton's 3rd army, their Hq was at Batsford Arboretum, and about 3 miles away at Blockley there's the remains of a U.S. hospital which is quite complete, after the American's left it was used for German p.o.w's., then a Polish camp after the war. all the best Ian Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, May 24 2022. .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted May 24, 2022 Share #20865 Posted May 24, 2022 . the wonderful internet . . . . . . since posting the story of the slat-grille Jeep I bought for £35 I thought I would look on the internet to find a photo of the garage at the time I bought the Jeep, sadly not a face on shot of the garage but here's the closest shot I could find, Gallie's Garage Old Swinford, near Stourbridge. It was an Esso garage then and still is now, whether it's still owned by the same family I can't say, I will try and find out from a friend who lives near-by. In the old photo the garage has pumps on both sides of the road two in front of the old store on the right. . Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, May 24 2022. .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dogsbody Posted May 24, 2022 Share #20866 Posted May 24, 2022 On 8/1/2020 at 5:01 PM, General Apathy said: . Hi Rene, Thanks not seen that shot before, here's one for you, apparently the Sgt in the mackinaw dropped a fifty cent piece under the PSP so they are rolling it back looking for it . . . . . . . . . . . Truthfully I have no idea what they are doing rolling it up like this, I can't think of any way they could transport that length and weight anywhere else. If anyone finds a caption for this photo please post it here. Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, August 01 2020. . PSP mystery solved, haha. Thanks to TM 5-255 (Aviation Engineers). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikie Posted May 24, 2022 Share #20867 Posted May 24, 2022 7 hours ago, General Apathy said: . the wonderful internet . . . . . . since posting the story of the slat-grille Jeep I bought for £35 I thought I would look on the internet to find a photo of the garage at the time I bought the Jeep, sadly not a face on shot of the garage but here's the closest shot I could find, Gallie's Garage Old Swinford, near Stourbridge. It was an Esso garage then and still is now, whether it's still owned by the same family I can't say, I will try and find out from a friend who lives near-by. In the old photo the garage has pumps on both sides of the road two in front of the old store on the right. . Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, May 24 2022. .. Wow. Quite a bit has changed. Mikie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted May 24, 2022 Share #20868 Posted May 24, 2022 21 minutes ago, Dogsbody said: PSP mystery solved, haha. Thanks to TM 5-255 (Aviation Engineers). . Hi Rene, well done a gentleman and a scholar, remembering the post from so long ago, now if you could just answer the meaning of life, an even older question. I am pretty sure that I must have ' Aviation Engineers ' in my shoebox and should have spent some wasted hours reading it . . . . . Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, May 24 2022. .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johan Willaert Posted May 24, 2022 Share #20869 Posted May 24, 2022 Since I really dont ride the Harley that much, I decided to put it on display in the War Building… Doesnt look half bad, even if I say so myself… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted May 24, 2022 Share #20870 Posted May 24, 2022 27 minutes ago, mikie said: Wow. Quite a bit has changed. Mikie . Hi Mikie, Due to the cost of WWII much of the infrastructure of the UK lingered on much longer whilst the bombed streets and properties were rebuilt first. The houses in that old photo date back to the days of Charles Dickens or earlier and it wasn't until the 1960's at the earliest that they were rebuilt, some that were rebuilt in the 1960's had to be rebuilt again in the 1990's due to poor quality of the materials used mainly the un-seasoned woods which were still used even though it would technically be ' green-undried timber ' the water got underneath the paintwork and rotted the timber away in less than thirty years. Also a lot of the concrete used suffered from ' Concrete-Cancer ' and simply fell apart. It was the end of 2006 that Great Britain officially repaid the international loans it borrowed during WWII. Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, May 24 2022. .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted May 24, 2022 Share #20871 Posted May 24, 2022 7 minutes ago, Johan Willaert said: Since I really dont ride the Harley that much, I decided to put it on display in the War Building… Doesnt look half bad, even if I say so myself… . Hi Johan, one question, how long are you prepared to stand there like that . . . . . . . . . . . 😈 🤣 🤣 Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, May 24 2022. .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johan Willaert Posted May 24, 2022 Share #20872 Posted May 24, 2022 8 minutes ago, General Apathy said: . Hi Johan, one question, how long are you prepared to stand there like that . . . . . . . . . . . 😈 🤣 🤣 well definitely not longer than next Tuesday, since I have a dinner date in Normandy on Wednesday 😎 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikie Posted May 24, 2022 Share #20873 Posted May 24, 2022 16 minutes ago, General Apathy said: . Hi Johan, one question, how long are you prepared to stand there like that . . . . . . . . . . . 😈 🤣 🤣 Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, May 24 2022. .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikie Posted May 24, 2022 Share #20874 Posted May 24, 2022 Totally not military and nothing to do with Normandy... This little guy likes to check me out when he sees me while on I'm my morning walk. All the other squirrels run and hide as soon as I come by. But not this one. He climbs up to eye level and seems happy to see me. This has been going on maybe once every couple of weeks for over a year. Either he's nuts or I am. Mikie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted May 24, 2022 Share #20875 Posted May 24, 2022 . Most eighty year-olds give up climbing hills, mounds and stairs . . . . . . . . . . . Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, May 24 2022. .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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