Bloody jeep drivers

Hmm, and then there is this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh92LirlCf8

That's only a handful of intersections in Melbourne's CBD.

https://youtu.be/jWEwgH4nPzw
More congestion, more cooperation, more patience.
1952, before curtainsiders and road rage had been invented. Interesting to note ex-WW ll commercial vehicles still in use.
Some of the vehicles in that clip would now command a higher price than the dearest Range Rover.

Try Portugal, there are traffic lights halfway round the roundabouts in lisbon but actually work because portoguese are quite clued up well at least whenvI was there for a while.

I know the one Fatso, on Marmion Ave at Hester Ave from memory. What clown designed that I wonder? Still as long as they work with Dinky toys why worry about what happens actually with real vehicles and drivers?
AlanH.

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Originally Posted by V8Ian

https://youtu.be/jWEwgH4nPzw
More congestion, more cooperation, more patience.
1952, before curtainsiders and road rage had been invented. Interesting to note ex-WW ll commercial vehicles still in use.
Some of the vehicles in that clip would now command a higher price than the dearest Range Rover.

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1952 was only seven years after the war ended, and probably only about five after production of civil commercial vehicles were resumed. There would have been an acute shortage of vehicles of all types, and WW2 vehicles largely supplied the gap.

The UK may have been in a worse position than Australia, but even here, prewar commercial vehicles were in widespread use even into the sixties, and WW2 ones even later.

When I was in highschool in the mid sixties I regularly saw a FordT truck picking up goods at Parramatta station, although that was rare enough to attract my notice. But ex-military WW2 and 1930s commercial vehicles were unremarkable.

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Originally Posted by JDNSW

1952 was only seven years after the war ended, and probably only about five after production of civil commercial vehicles were resumed. There would have been an acute shortage of vehicles of all types, and WW2 vehicles largely supplied the gap.

The UK may have been in a worse position than Australia, but even here, prewar commercial vehicles were in widespread use even into the sixties, and WW2 ones even later.

When I was in highschool in the mid sixties I regularly saw a FordT truck picking up goods at Parramatta station, although that was rare enough to attract my notice. But ex-military WW2 and 1930s commercial vehicles were unremarkable.

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I just noticed the Series ll Morris Oxford, they weren't released until 1954. A guess at the date by Pathe?

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Hmm, and then there is this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh92LirlCf8

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I found it works quite good, did it many times when l worked in the CBD

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Originally Posted by Roverlord off road spares

I found it works quite good, did it many times when l worked in the CBD

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When I got my licence it was one of the main questions they asked. There were five intersection with hook turns in those days. Hook turns are simple, and prevent right turning vehicles from impeding trams. I used to moonlight as a cabbie, and did them many times a day. However, it was always a hoot watching our country cousins when confronted with them.

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That's only a handful of intersections in Melbourne's CBD.

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Not anymore, Ian. Now it's every intersection in the CBD where trams cross, unless right turns are prohibited. Trams are God in Melb now.