Quite a lot going on here. Looks like my dad in the trilby on the bus. Could that green van be a Trojan? And is that a miniature Dick Tracy outside Harris's? Anyway, off you go...
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There's definitiely a car going up that one way street.
The road is remarkably clean - that can't be right either.
I should clarify - the car is going the wrong way up a one way street! I'm going back to bed...
CMS, you're the first down the street this morning.
I`m a bit uneasy about the No Entry signage.Shouldn`t there be some white on them in the form of a broad band,and/or no lettering at all?
And the cruising blonde bird in the green Singer Sports shouldn`t be bothering her pretty little head with the technicalities of motoring....she should be thinking about puppies and kittens and attending to her domestic offices.
Bucks retronaut - are you too young to remember the signs before they went European? Personally I'm too old to remember them, but I think the artist may be right on this one.
Surely the car going the wrong way up a one-way street is an infringement of the Road Traffic Act, not a fault with the picture?
The most obvious fault is that there is no policeman blowing his whistle to apprehend the errant driver. At that time, there was a friendly copper on every street corner to give directions to old ladies and clip naughty boys round the ear.
Not too sure about the Teddy boy behind the green car. Isn't he stalking? The man in a mac on the left has far too small a head. But then again, judging by his gait, it could be two boys under the coat up to some prank or jape. And the Transport Corporation's lack of clear signage on the bus clearly doesn't cater for the occasional out-of-towner.
Making streets one way must have been fairly late on in the history of traffic management. Amongst the essential contemporary Highway Codes I can only find 'No Entry' rendered as black letters on a white bar across a red disc, as Bucks says. Blimey, these faults just keep on comin'.
I don't think the van has any back lights.
I think you're right expat. Call that invisible policeman immediately! Although I expect there's just a little half moon light illuminating the number plate. But not good enough!
Oh Dear, oh dear. This FTF just goes to demonstrate how easily the eye can be fooled by detail. We know from experience that this and other FTF artists are prone to make huge numbers of "errors" rather than intended faults, and we have all rather fallen into the trap of chasing these in the hope of netting the artists own fault. I suppose it's understandable that some of you may not have immediately recognised Limpsfield High Street, but having (quite by chance) visited recently I can confirm that the artist has deffinitely presented us a view of the intersection of the High Street with New Road as seen from a window table in the first floor tea rooms of Lewis's Department Store. The fault here is that Harris's over the road is a butcher's shop and not a gallery. I have checked with relatives from Westerham and am assured that Harris's has always been a butcher's.
Oh Diplo. You're so right of course. In your erudite expanding of our vision I now realise that the bloke on the bus I thought was my dad is in fact Mr.Pargetter going home after getting a brace of pheasants for Sunday lunch from gamedealer Coldbreath in Seal.
After much intense peering....
The van could be a rather careless attempt at a Trojan, or indeed it could just as easily be a Morris Commercial. The sports car looks a bit like a Talbot (not sure about the divided windscreen, though) and the bus, well, I suppose it's a bit reminiscent of a Guy. The errant car defeats me.
I think the FTF artist has, for some reason, gone to an inordinate amount of trouble to make everything in the pictures look not quite like anything recognisable!
Its called artistic license.You take reality,and you mess with it.
Martin : Tatra T603 ?
If so ,this could go some way to explaining its irregular progress,as it would undoubtedly be driven by a cold war spy , intolerant of decadent capitalist regulations,having just left a meet with the decidedly iffy geezer in the mac.
Yes, well. As an artist, I have of course heard of Artistic Licences. Never been able to find out where to buy one, though.
And Bucks R. - you could well be right, although he might have missed his intended turn due to the massive oversteer caused by the enormous weight of the V8 behind the rear wheels (sort of VW on steroids).
The van is most likely to be a Trojan. Who else would build a van with rear doors but no door handles?
It`s all Greek to me.
I once worked with a graphic designer who made his own artistic licence and would wave it around when the occasion seemed to demand it.
Tatras? Yes, blighters to steer. You still occasionally see them weaving erratically around the roads in the Czech Republic, but this is no surprise as Czechs seem to regard driving as a contact sport.
I once read that during WW11 German Officers were banned from driving Tatras as they were considered too dangerous.
Yes, I've read that too. As the Tatra was the prestige Czech car in 1939, the Nazi officers confiscated them for their own use. Of course, they required a completely different driving technique to the German Mercedes, Horch, BMW, etc., that they were used to, and as a result a number of over-confident officers were killed and injured. An order was subsequently issued that the cars were not to be used.
I believe the Czechs regarded the Tatra as a very effective resistance weapon. Of course, this could all be apocryphal, but it's a great story. Anyone know any more?
I knew an amateur racing driver now sadly deceased, who raced his own self-funded Aston DB3R in the 1960s in, it has to be said a somewhat exhuberant and unpredictable manner.His daily driver was a Tatra and even he was unable to tame the brute and capsized it outside Jack Barclay`s showroom in Berkeley Square,after a comfortable evening spent in the nearby Steering Wheel Club,now equally sadly deceased.
I`d like to be able to say I know because I was there......Must have given the Nightingale something to sing about.
The story about the Germans and the Tatra is certainly still told, and there's probably at least an element of truth in it. However, I have to say that the Czechs (Europe's perpetual underdogs, jackbooted over by every other nation going, bouncing back in spite of everything) do love stories in which the underdog triumphs, especially if that triumph comes about through some kind of bumbling incompetence on the part of the victor. This is the whole message of the novel The Good Soldier Svejk (the great Czech classic), the eponymous hero of which is really thick but seems to get away with everything.
This is all very erudite but what I saw in the picture, and never questioned, was an ordinary VW Beetle, possessing the original elegant small oval rear window, unfortunately obscured by a No Entry sign.
Occam's razor, chaps!
Limpsfield, you reckon Diplo? Not so far from the Grasshopper then with it's sign depicting that insect from The Gresham family crest. Leveson-Gowers (pronounced loosen gore, naturally) just up the road at Titsey Park...great name - great place. Sorry, none of it to do with the puzzle but learned to ride a bike along the Pilgrims Way below Titsey church. Didn't Wolf Barnato, Bentley 'boy' and party animal live nearby in the inter-war years? It's probably him pissed up in the prewar Tatra. Or, if Diplo is correct it could be Winston Churchill on the bus going back to Chartwell via Westerham.
Aha, Vincent! You have struck a nerve here. I do possess a 1954 VW Beetle, complete with the charming oval rear window you describe (and semaphore indicators), and I have to tell you, sadly, that you are mistaken. The drawing clearly shows three side windows ('six-light' coachwork in the jargon of the day) and I can assure you that the Beetle only has two. One down to Occam, perhaps.
Of course, the two cars were similar in concept, and much has been debated on how much the two engineers, Ledwinka and Porsche influenced one another.
On another topic, Bucks, might we be permitted to know the name of your late friend with the Aston? I am quite interested in 1950s and 60s sports car racing.
P.S. I was unfamiliar with the book "The Good Soldier Svejk", but the other half recognised it immediately as she had it read to her in primary school in Yorkshire.
Of course Martin.
He was Mike Bond and his Aston was the famous DB3s6,better known perhaps as 62 EMU.
Martin H, I am impressed at the standard of literacy of your other half's primary school, it is a long read. In the spirit of the Good Soldier Svejk, I would recommend the works of Josef Skvorecky, amongst which are the crime stoies based on the charecter of Lieutenant Boruvka of the Prague Homicide Bureau who first appears in the book 'The Mournful Demeanour of Lieutenant Boruvka' which should be availiable in paperback. As well as being good detective stories, they contain strong charecters, humour and satire on communist politics. Skvorecky left Czechoslovakia after the Velvet revolution was crushed in 1968.
Bucks - Thank you for that. That would be the Graham Whitehead car that raced at Le Mans in 1954 as a coupe with disastrous aerodynamics which caused it to crash at speed; subsequently rebuilt as an open car with rather better results. There is a photo of the car with Peter Collins at the wheel at Aintree in 1955 in the rather good book "1950s Motorsport in Colour".
And thank you, accountant, for the recommendation and information on Skvorecky, which I will pass on to Herself. She is pretty well read, so the school obviously did a thorough job.
Svejk at primary school. I am in awe. Skvorecky is excellent. Another good Czech novelist is Bohumil Hrabal (I Served the King of England, Closely Observed Trains, Too Loud a Solitude).
Thanks, Philip. We now have a Czech reading list to follow up! Just for the record, the school was in Helmsley in N. Yorkshire, and the inspired headmistress who conducted the readings was a Mrs. Leach.
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