what I have learned today.

[mark]

I guess the box by her feet is for tools?

I assumed that was a battery.  Looking more closely it does appear to have a small petrol tank on the opposite side to the camera.

The box by her feet appears to have a hinged cover, so my guess is tools or personal luggage (papers, etc.). The container on the far side of the front wheel looks like a fuel tank to me, too. I would expect a motor that small to be started with a pull cord or a hand crank, given the low compression ratios and the state of battery and electric motor technology back then.

[ian]

According to Wiki, Florence Priscilla, Lady Norman is sporting this season's Autoped:

The driver stood on a platform with 10-inch tires and operated the machine using only the handlebars and steering column, pushing them forward to engage the clutch, using a lever on the handlebar to control the throttle, and pulling the handlebars and column back to disengage the clutch and apply the brake.[1][2][3][4] After riding, the steering column would be folded onto the platform to store the scooter more easily. The engine was an air-cooled, 4-stroke, 155 cc engine over the front wheel.[2][3] The bike came with a headlamp and tail lamp, a Klaxon horn, and a toolbox. Developed during wartime and gasoline rationing, it was quite efficient, but was not widely distributed.[2]

No room for a helmet with that fancy millinery either.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Klaxon is an underused word, despite being an overused item.

[T42]

According to Wiki, Florence Priscilla, Lady Norman is sporting this season's Autoped:

The driver stood on a platform with 10-inch tires and operated the machine using only the handlebars and steering column, pushing them forward to engage the clutch, using a lever on the handlebar to control the throttle, and pulling the handlebars and column back to disengage the clutch and apply the brake.[1][2][3][4] After riding, the steering column would be folded onto the platform to store the scooter more easily. The engine was an air-cooled, 4-stroke, 155 cc engine over the front wheel.[2][3] The bike came with a headlamp and tail lamp, a Klaxon horn, and a toolbox. Developed during wartime and gasoline rationing, it was quite efficient, but was not widely distributed.[2]

No room for a helmet with that fancy millinery either.

So if you run into someone the scooter tries to accelerate. Nice healthy get-me-outa-here approach.

[Mr Larrington]

That Cheap Trick At Budokan was actually recorded at a show in Osaka and not at the Budokan at all.  Boo!  Money back …

[rr]

That Cheap Trick At Budokan was actually recorded at a show in Osaka and not at the Budokan at all.  Boo!  Money back …

That'll be £3,50 for my yellow, transparent copy bought in 1980.

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[Asterix, the former Gaul.]

That the word 'meander' is derived from the name of this river:

[robgul]

That the word 'meander' is derived from the name of this river:

Looks like there'll be oxbow lakes soon!

[Jurek]

That the word 'meander' is derived from the name of this river:

Looks like there'll be oxbow lakes soon!

You took the words out of my mouth!

[mrcharly-YHT]

That the word 'meander' is derived from the name of this river:

Looks like there'll be oxbow lakes soon!

I say billabong

[robgul]

That the word 'meander' is derived from the name of this river:

Looks like there'll be oxbow lakes soon!

You took the words out of my mouth!

First year, first term geography lesson at grammar school!  Never forgotten like many things in life . . . another one from my era was how to spell K-E-Y-N-S-H-A-M   

[Basil]

Horace Batclelor!      Radio Luxembourg under the bedsheets.

[Mr Larrington]

What a team, Zebra Kid and Horace Batchelor on percussion.

[Asterix, the former Gaul.]

Horace Batclelor!      Radio Luxembourg under the bedsheets.

Radio Luxembourg was not cool when you could have Caroline between the sheets.

[robgul]

What a team, Zebra Kid and Horace Batchelor on percussion.

I can't hear an accordian without thinking of General de Gaulle . . .

[robgul]

Horace Batclelor!      Radio Luxembourg under the bedsheets.

Radio Luxembourg was not cool when you could have Caroline between the sheets.

Nah, Caroline was (much later) for kids - Luxembourg with the signal fading and then coming back was the real deal.     Where would we be without the Teen & Twenty Disc Club?

[Asterix, the former Gaul.]

 

Horace Batclelor!      Radio Luxembourg under the bedsheets.

Radio Luxembourg was not cool when you could have Caroline between the sheets.

Nah, Caroline was (much later) for kids - Luxembourg with the signal fading and then coming back was the real deal.     Where would we be without the Teen & Twenty Disc Club?

I could tell you that!

[Cudzoziemiec]

I was in Keynsham yesterday but I still have to remind myself whether it's Keynsham or Keynesham! It's a useful place from which to get to other places, but apart from that it doesn't really have a lot going on.

[robgul]

Horace Batclelor!      Radio Luxembourg under the bedsheets.

Radio Luxembourg was not cool when you could have Caroline between the sheets.

Nah, Caroline was (much later) for kids - Luxembourg with the signal fading and then coming back was the real deal.     Where would we be without the Teen & Twenty Disc Club?

I could tell you that!

Indeed, we could do without the memory of Jimmy Savile . . .  but (having Googled) the roster of Luxembourg DJs that went on to other, possibly greater things is impressive:

DJ’s included Don Wardell, Pete Murray, David ‘Kid’ Jensen, Tony Prince, Keith Fordyce, Kenny Everett, Barry Alldis, Jimmy Savile, Alan Freeman, Bob Stewart, Simon Dee, Paul Burnett, Dave Christian, Mark Wesley, Noel Edmonds, Brian Matthew, Pete Brady, Peter Powell, Emperor Rosko, Stuart Henry, Johnny Walker, Tommy Vance, Rob Jones, Tony Blewitt, Tony Brandon, Chris Carey, Peter Carvey, Rodney Collins, Roger ‘Twiggy’ Day, Pearly Gates, Stuart Grundy, Paul Kaye, Johnny Moran, Colin Nicol, Mike Read, Steve Wright and Muriel Young (one of the very few female disc jockeys on Radio Luxembourg).

[T42]

Horace Batclelor!      Radio Luxembourg under the bedsheets.

Radio Luxembourg was not cool when you could have Caroline between the sheets.

Nah, Caroline was (much later) for kids - Luxembourg with the signal fading and then coming back was the real deal.

208 metres/1439 kilocycles - nothing as common as Herz back then.  A chum and I lived about 100 yards apart and had WW2-surplus field phones to chat on, with the cable strung along a disused railway cutting.  With that as an aerial my crystal set picked up the Beeb full blast until they shut down, then Radio Luxembourg.  The fun of picking it up counted for more than the actual programme content.

[Wowbagger]

My good pal Jon has today sent a letter to Sir Peter Bazalgette, Head of ITV, which Jon has published on FB.

I think it is entirely fitting that the great-great-grandson of the man who was largely responsible for the introduction of the London sewerage system should be in charge of a television channel.

[Peter]

"Fitting" may not be as appropriate as you suggest: the great-great-grandson will be in danger of over-loading his ancestor's system, I would have thought - though McDonald's fat-ball might give him a (non-) run for his money.

[rafletcher]

That at least one mid-western USAnian Packers fan of my acquaintance believes, as he told a colleague and me this morning "Americans undertsand "inflammable" to mean it wont burn" 

[mrcharly-YHT]

That at least one mid-western USAnian Packers fan of my acquaintance believes, as he told a colleague and me this morning "Americans undertsand "inflammable" to mean it wont burn" 

If you normally use 'flammable' to mean 'will burn', then it is quite reasonable to think that 'inflammable' means 'won't burn'.

It is the fault of Latin bollocks.

'inflammable' really means 'inflame', as in 'to cause to burn'. 'flammable' means 'it is burning'.  Well, it used to.

Basically English is a mongrel language, and grumbling about it is like grumbling about a mongrel dog having random coloured patches of fur.

[rafletcher]

This I understand, but even Merriam Webster agrees that "inflammable" means "easy to set light to".