Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/07/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Douglas, Your stories of your youth brought to mind something from my working years. We had a brilliant engineer who was confined to a wheel chair. He was frustrated because the USAF base had no suitable way to easily transport him to other buildings for meetings. His solution was to hold on to the rear corner of his supervisor's pickup and get towed to the meeting. The safety authorities soon took a dim view of this. Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA On 7/30/2016 11:32 AM, Douglas Barry wrote: > Well I'll be trucked, Jim. > Over here it's all SUVs - Range Rovers, Porsche Cayennes etc, just > because they want to feel safe when they drive the children all of 500 > metres to school. Very little of that truck style of vehicle around > here, but if there was, I might explore my youth again and hang on to > the back of them when cycling up a hill. > > Fifty years ago and more, we had a lot more small flat backed lorries, > and battery operated vans that you hang on to and scutt a tow. Before > I cycled to school, I used to get the bus. Where I got off near my > school, the local dairy was also nearby and had streams of horse drawn > drays delivering bottles of milk around the surrounding > neighbourhoods. Even without a bike, a quick sprint would enable you > to catch one, grab the back of the flat back, and swing your legs onto > the back axle. You would them be carried along in style. Well, as > boys, we thought it was style at the time... :-) > > Douglas > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Nichols" > <jhnichols at lighttube.net> > To: "LUG at Leica-Users.org" <lug at leica-users.org>; "Olympus Camera > Discussion" <olympus at thomasclausen.net> > Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2016 12:22 AM > Subject: [Leica] IMG: Trucks Rule ! > > >> I read this week that the American auto makers made their money this >> year with increased truck sales. This is evident in the fast food >> parking lot where I went to eat on Friday night. After a day of >> rain, the skies are smiling once more. >> >> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Trucks+Rule+_.jpg.html >> >> Comments and critiques welcomed and appreciated. >> >> -- >> Jim Nichols >> Tullahoma, TN USA >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >