My mate at schools dad used to pick him up in his artic cab, how cool is that when you're 10!
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Kids used to ride to school on a pony and then l'd lead it from my horse on the way home. Only 2hp, but nicer than a Eurobox.
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My mum used to take my sister to work, and me to school in an MG midget. I had to sit on top of the transmission tunnel in the back. Gave me an interesting 'windswept' look, since my head was six inches over the top of the windscreen.
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In my day (and I'm only 36 btw) it was unusual to see any car doing the school run.
Most of us travelled either by bicycle, or if it was raining - public transport.
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I went to a lot of schools. My father used to take me to the first two on his bicycle, having attached a seat for me to the crossbar. That was in Bath during the second world war.
Later in the forties, in Ceylon, I went to a boarding school some 150 miles from where we lived. Usually went there in a naval leave bus full of sailors, but at least once in a Chevrolet 15cwt truck: a forward control 4wd chassis with a sidevalve V8 between the front seats and a body lashed up out of timber and hardboard. Extremely noisy, uncomfortable and macho vehicle that could go anywhere and must have used a fair amount of juice. One of the other parents had a Triumph 1800 roadster (with a dicky in the boot, whose front panel opened up to become the rear passengers' windscreen), yet another one of the very first pushme-pullyu Raymond Loewy Studebakers.
At day school in Plymouth in the early fifties I used my own bicycle. Parked near the school I went to was a sky-blue Cord roadster, one of the best-looking American cars ever.
At my last school, in the mid-fifties, some of the rich parents (mine were not among them) had things like vintage Bentleys. One of my contemporaries there was the son of a sports car manufacturer, whose brother used to turn up in green racers of the make concerned, on one occasion with its knock-off hubcaps on one side marked with Ferrari red paint from some jostling incident during a race the previous week. You could hear that one a good mile away. Another contemporary used to drive about in his parents' second car, a Packard Clipper convertible. You couldn't hear that one at all, although its straight-eight engine projected it up the school drive at what felt like amazing speeds.
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I, too, went to school in Bath during the war but I had to walk as we had no car or bicycle then. I don't recall too much about the cars at my later schools until my father bought a Rolls 20/25, the "Doctor's Special". That was one car that no-one could up-stage! ...and, yes, it was so quiet that one could hear the wind whistling past the block as it revved (in a very gentlemanly way, of course).
Those were the days when cars were a priviledge and driving was considered an art.
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Mostly I'd walk the 1 mile to school, but I remember on very rare occasions if I was a bit off-colour being taken on the rear carrier (if that's the correct name) of my dad's pre-war Hercules bicycle.
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Used to take MM junior to school in my traka kit i think head thaought we were quite mad
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How interesting eProf. My father too had a 20/25, an ugly black Mulliner 7-passenger sedanca de ville, with two jump seats, but the hood didn't open. He didn't buy it until I had left school, though. It was quiet and quite slow. As the compression ratio was only about six to one, he sometimes used to cut the petrol with paraffin (mainly I think to prove that it could be done).
When he decided to trade up to a new Cortina 1200 he gave the Rolls-Royce to the Catholic parish priest in Dunfermline (he wasn't a Catholic but my mother was). Apparently the bishop confiscated it immediately, perhaps fearing that it would send the wrong signals to the faithful.
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Gave me an interesting 'windswept' look, since my head was six inches over the top of the windscreen.
A look which has remained until this day, eh Bazza!
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Scuse me, can someone explain how 1 horse (a small one at that) can have 2 horsepower?
Let me see, junior school was a mile and a half walk cos the bus money could buy you sweets :). BIG school was a half a mile walk so I didnt get any bus money :(
In my later years travel to school was on a Lambretta LI150 When parkas were first made trendy.
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Dad picked me up on his DT a few times...apart from a few Merc's he might have had for the day from his boss, that's about it. I normally walked anyway!
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The Range Rover Sport and Golf cabrio both used for a 250-300 yard (I kid ye not) primary school run in our village; these kids are driven to school each day and the Mums in question then drive back home. Thankfully the vast majority are walked to and from school by their parents. The same two Mums (and Dads) drive to the village shop (300 yards, shock, horror) for their ciggies and paper.
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Lad in my class at primary used to be delivered and collected in a chauffeur driven RR Sliver Shadow. This was late 1960's and I think his (obviously) wealthy parents wanted him to have a state education.
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In 1956 I went to school by tractor. Petrol was rationed because of the Suez crisis.
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I remember French & Saunders doing the school run in an armoured personel carrier! I think they were having a go at mums who do the school runs in 4x4s.
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Nipper rides pony, LY rides horse = 2 x horse, => 2 hp
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During the Glastonbury Festival last year some kids went to scholl by helicopter, as their houses were cut off by the festival, ISTR.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/3004394.stm
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Helicopters are fairly routine there. For open days there is a lot of one upmanship in the car park- with lots of hired exotica from parents with something to prove. Then 1 or 2 turn up in the choppers for the ultimate attention.
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Nipper rides pony, LY rides horse = 2 x horse, => 2 hp
DOH - of course, I missed the other machine
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Scuse me, can someone explain how 1 horse (a small one at that) can have 2 horsepower?
For what it's worth my source of information says that "The power of a draught horse, of average strength, working eight hours per day, is about four fifths of a standard horse power."
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When our car broke down the undertakers round the corner lent us a hearse to take the kids to school with.
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I Did it toay in an e200 komp
usually do it in a transit though.
the kids prefer the transit can you believe that!
we always walked to school, it was about a mile and a half, it never entered our heads to go by car, but then again we had a vauxhall viva, so it was preferable to walk wasnt it really.
i dio see a F550 going past my kids school every morning though, can you imagine gettting dropped off in that how cool would that be.
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usually do it in a transit though. the kids prefer the transit can you believe that!
I can well believe it i used to love it when my dad dropped us off in the commer bearing in mind this was in mid 90's when it was already a classic
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On a couple of occasions my dad picked me up from school in a Carmichael TACR2 Fire Engine.
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I can well believe it i used to love it when my dad dropped us off in the commer bearing in mind this was in mid 90's when it was already a classic
Or school minibus was a khaki Commer PB. It only seems like a few years ago.
As they say in JS:TO: One day you're 17. Then just before you're 18 you realise you're 56.
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