Feb 08, 2012 11:45:42
http://www.flickr.com/photos/aceanorak/6430068743/in/pool-601250@N23/
found in the MGA flickr pages..
great photo on FLICKR...
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Feb 08, 2012 12:50:27
That Flickr group has a ton of really neat photos. I can spend (waste?) hours looking at them. Completely off subject, but the picture you referenced with the women bobbies reminded me of this one of my grandmother. She was an Army field nurse in WWII at Normandy. Still feisty as ever at 92, but not really limber enough to get in the MGA for a ride.
Feb 08, 2012 13:32:38
Great shot, although I have to wonder how many criminals just outran the police trying to apprehend them in an MGA!
Feb 08, 2012 15:08:55
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That Flickr group has a ton of really neat photos. I can spend (waste?) hours looking at them. Completely off subject, but the picture you referenced with the women bobbies reminded me of this one of my grandmother. She was an Army field nurse in WWII at Normandy. Still feisty as ever at 92, but not really limber enough to get in the MGA for a ride.
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That Flickr group has a ton of really neat photos. I can spend (waste?) hours looking at them. Completely off subject, but the picture you referenced with the women bobbies reminded me of this one of my grandmother. She was an Army field nurse in WWII at Normandy. Still feisty as ever at 92, but not really limber enough to get in the MGA for a ride.
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That's a great picture of your grandmother, glad she's still going strong- A friend and I went cross country on bicycles back in 1990. At a campground in Arizona, a group of four WW II nurses were set up near where we were gonna pitch our tents. The wind was blowing like crazy and it was getting dark, but one of them approached us and said " If you fellas need help setting up, we can give you a hand, we haven't forgotten how to set up a tent in the wind, we were in worse conditions than this more than once.. " She said that she and her other nurse friends tried to get together when they could- at that time of course, they had stayed in touch for at least 45 years. Plucky women for sure- my hat's off to them all.
Feb 09, 2012 10:09:10
Quote: "
That Flickr group has a ton of really neat photos. I can spend (waste?) hours looking at them. Completely off subject, but the picture you referenced with the women bobbies reminded me of this one of my grandmother. She was an Army field nurse in WWII at Normandy. Still feisty as ever at 92, but not really limber enough to get in the MGA for a ride.
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That Flickr group has a ton of really neat photos. I can spend (waste?) hours looking at them. Completely off subject, but the picture you referenced with the women bobbies reminded me of this one of my grandmother. She was an Army field nurse in WWII at Normandy. Still feisty as ever at 92, but not really limber enough to get in the MGA for a ride.
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My Mother, 89. has no problem getting in and out but she complains that she cannot reach the pedals.
Feb 09, 2012 13:30:50
Nice picture of the MGA's. Did you notice where the front plate was? And how the plate had three letters and three numbers? The three numbers tells the year and the three letters tells where the car was titled. Also I like the lights on the top of each fender (Opps wing). I wonder if they were red?
Now as for the MGA not being fast enough for a police car back then. You got to remember that there wasn't many cars owned in the 50' and 60's. And the cars were small and under powered by today's standards. Plus most of the roads were narrow and not that many super highways.
Chris
I'm willing to bet she was a heart taker and a heart breaker. Also tell her "Thank you for what she did."
John
Feb 09, 2012 14:15:33
I guess that explains why the Paddy Wagon was invented.
Otherwise the drunk in the handcuffs would think he's out on a date. :devil:
Feb 09, 2012 15:33:45
Does anyone know if someone has duplicated a MGA police car from the period? How many specs are available if someone wanted to?
Feb 10, 2012 01:11:28
John, with reference to the number plate, the second two letters determine the place of first registration. The other letter and the numbers are sequential and unique to each car. There was no way to identify the year of first registration until 1963 when the "A" suffix was introduced in some areas.
This picture is of the Lancashire Constabulary cars (and the letters TC were used for Bristol and Lancashire.)
There is a surviving 1600 police MGA in the Lakeland Motor Museum
http://www.lakelandmotormuseum.co.uk/index.php
Feb 10, 2012 01:15:17
Another nice pic:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gmpolice1/4422248963/
And finally just to show that Lancashire wasn't the only force using the MGA here is one registered in Cardiff.
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