My uncle was a GP in the East Riding, sole practice. There was a brass mouthpiece beside the surgery door and a tube leading to his bedside where the other end had a whistle. Much as we kids tried we couldn't make it blow, or hear each other through the speaking tube!
On a vaguely related note, cash registers in shops used to have a bell that sounded when each item was processed with a louder ring when the total was pressed. A relic of this is the occasional continued use of "ring an item" for scanning an item and "ring the total" for obtaining the total due.
Some were, one of my Uncles supposedly could get you a radio cheap if you wanted one, luckily we don't have anything to do with him.
Possibly fewer caravans with the rise in motorhome numbers. I can't recall off-the-top-of-my-head if caravan speed limits used to be lower than they are now?
I think it was 60mph. Getting stuck behind a tin snail was always a fear when in a hurry. Often the car immediately behind was to scared to overtake impeding anyone else to try and causing a tailback.
Brings back memories of heading up the 3 lane A6 over Shap in the days before the M6 opened, grinding along at what seemed no more than 10-15 mph as a long chain of trucks crawled past each other in both available lanes. In those days many would park up in Kendal, Penrith or Carlisle to sleep over night.
Chances are that the car towing the caravan had a lot less “oomph” to get the thing moving. Certainly many of them weren’t really up to the job as a survey of the hard shoulder of the M5 on a summer Saturday would testify (the bits you could see from the much more interesting train services of course!)
True. Some old Austin 1100 doesn’t really compare to a Chelsea Tractor when towing a caravan.
In the 70s I am sure it was a blanket 50 MPH limit. (didn't they have stickers on the back?)
Better than BFH!
BFH?
In context, likely to be "Bob's Full House". Aired BBC1, late 1980s.
On Bullseye, if you lost, you were given a tankard and your BFH - Bus Fare Home.
Nottingham University King's Meadow Campus (the old Carlton TV studios) still have these. They do also have hand dryers and paper towels.
The British Library uses roller towels. I don't see the problem with them as long as you have enough common sense to pull down a clean section
Was it this type of provision which sometimes had the legend "Advance Towelmaster" inscribed on the holder?
Not in London I imagine, but I used one recently when in an area with atrocious mobile reception - tho that was a rural area.
I think the suppliers of the services have moved to advertising using other media these days
Interesting - and v useful.
