Productive Day!

The old, very venerable, MG Midget. This is a late one. In the seventies, the American, particularly Californian, regulators, had a lot of mischeivous fun chopping, changing, and threatening new laws on car 'safety'.




The British manufacturers who relied on the market had plans to produce new ranges to take over, but with the uncertainty generated by these legislative terrorists, the plans came to nought.
Eventually, the legislation was more or less confined to changing bumper height, and so the old, knackered models soldiered on with ludicrous,cheap plastic mouldings and spring height stepping.
By then the car industry was dying, strangled by terrible management, terrible workmanship and communist strike action.

But this is still an MG Midget.
From happier days in the forties, this is a Ford Popular, a cheap, basic, competent, nice car that Ford built in Britain.
Ford UK ceased to be the central driving force of Ford Europe in 1971.
The honour went to Germany, although a lot of research work still goes on in Essex.
Why? The communist penetration of the company, as with BMC.
This example is non-restored, completely original and ever so slightly tatty.
Nice.

Now, for all those idiots who play 'X-Box' or 'Playstation' or even PC games, this is a real game.
Yes.
It is a video game.
And yes!
That is a real Vickers .303 Heavy Machine Gun connected to it.
No bloody fear!
It's in the Royal Armouries Museum, in Leeds.