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RE: A ladies' day in London town, 1928... - Bob Culver - 06-09-2020
Ha ha. A good laugh but, like Ians observation a huge and imaginative stretch from the original entirely nuetral innocuous question. Besides. it does not address the relative abilities or enthusiams for crash boxes.
Possibly the saddest aspect of our current era is the death of humour, esp that once posseed by many Brits.
And in the 1920s about the only public transport heated was railway carriages. The lady appears dressed for reasonable warmth.Iif the Austin with its exposed gearbox had toiled up a few hills on the way there she will be fine.
RE: A ladies' day in London town, 1928... - Steve kay - 06-09-2020
Now now, chaps, our Bob was just making a comment about how we all contribute to keeping our Austins going. Only this morning, whilst I was hand forging a new crankshaft using a drop hammer improvised with line shafting powered by a nearby stream, I asked the dear lady wife when she had washed up after breakfast and fed the livestock, to use her much admired domestic skills and vacuum the interior carpets. Sadly, she mistook the carpet shampoo for some acetone on the workshop shelf, but she says she will knit a gearbox cover for the winter as a partial replacement.
RE: A ladies' day in London town, 1928... - andrew34ruby - 07-09-2020
Perhaps what Bob meant to say was.....
Just how well do the less mechanically informed cope with crash boxes?
It must be difficult if you have never seen a clutch or a gearbox.
RE: A ladies' day in London town, 1928... - Bob Culver - 07-09-2020
Bob stated exactly what he meant to state. How it can be construed as demeaning of women is beyond me.
(But I bet somewhere out there is an advert claiming synchro or auto boxes as ideal for women)
RE: A ladies' day in London town, 1928... - Tony Griffiths - 08-09-2020
(06-09-2020, 11:07 AM)Duncan Grimmond Wrote: I recommend the following for Bob and his cohort if it still exists...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Zc9uUEmcJ8
(07-09-2020, 08:29 PM)Bob Culver Wrote: Bob stated exactly what he meant to state. How it can be construed as demeaning of women is beyond me.Here's a wacky one. Goodness only knows what was in the mind of the advertising agency...
(But I bet somewhere out there is an advert claiming synchro or auto boxes as ideal for women)
RE: A ladies' day in London town, 1928... - A G Wood - 08-09-2020
(But I bet somewhere out there is an advert claiming synchro or auto boxes as ideal for women)
Aaand here's one, from 1931:
RE: A ladies' day in London town, 1928... - David.H - 08-09-2020
In 1971 my father bought mother a new Fiat 500L to replace her ratty 1961 Mk1 Mini (with magic wand gearstick etc).
He never told her the Fiat had no synchromesh and she drove it without demur, no problem for 15 or more years! She was born in 1913, and passed her test in 1967.
As an aside, in the 1930's her father kept a "spare" Austin Seven for car-less boyfriends to use when escorting his daughters!
RE: A ladies' day in London town, 1928... - Archivist - 08-09-2020
clearly, everyone should watch the film 'Silent and Certain' in the film section of the Archives...
http://archive.a7ca.org/collections/films/
Some epic 'Mansplaining..'
RE: A ladies' day in London town, 1928... - Bob Culver - 09-09-2020
Thanks Tony for a good chuckle.. Not just delightfully sexist, but today the ad agency would likely be stormed by offended red heads. Persons of somewhat eccentric manner see themselves (or did prior PC) characterised everywhere but it deters few.
Thanks also to AGW. The Vauxhall Cadet was quite popular here and many outlasted later more complex models into the 1970s.
And thanks Anarchist. The gearbox film intriguing. WIth synchro and double helical gears a very refined gearbox. Far removed from the 1920s crash boxes. Old production shots interesting as can see just what is going on. The absence of safety specs always intrigues. After a lifetime wearing ordinary specs I now find after cataract ops that better without close up. I now realise how much dirt ordinary specs kept out!
(In the naivety of youth I split and reassembled clusters to avoid mix of gears but I wonder how often mismatch leads to significant noise. It does sometimes on Javelin cars but two manufacturers were involved, the later being the company with poor quality control)