The Highway Code

[Gremlin]

Originally Posted by Michael1954

Yes I remember the orange lights that flicked up. My uncle had a little black car which had them.

My first car was a 1947 Anglia and that had the semaphore arms which came out to indicate you were about to turn.

If I was going above 20 miles an hour wind pressure would stop the arms returning and I had to bang on the door pillar from inside to get them to come back down.

You can just see the indicators on the front door pillar, the car was identical to mine.

I changed it in 1962 for a Mk 2 Zodiac after it fell on it's side on a bend.

[MargaretR]

In the 40s, my dad had an Austin 7 for family weekend camping trips - no indicators whatsoever - hand signals were the only way, but there weren't many other vehicles on the road who you needed to signal to.

[Gremlin]

My dad had one like it Margaret but it was black. We used to go for picnics on the Trough of Bowland at weekend and he let me drive it, as you say, there wasn't much traffic about.

The one in your photo is still on the road and the DVLA comes up with the following.

The enquiry is complete.
The vehicle details for AGW 591 are:
Date of Liability 01 07 2012
Date of First Registration 18 05 1933
Year of Manufacture 1933
Cylinder Capacity (cc) 747cc
CO2 Emissions Not Available
Fuel Type PETROL
Export Marker N
Vehicle Status Licence Not Due
Vehicle Colour GREEN
Vehicle Type Approval Not Available

[MargaretR]

I still remember that my dad's reg no was HG 114 - that was black too.
I remember him selling it to Ken Cunliffe, a Clayton le Moors window cleaner, who chopped the roof off and stripped the paint off the lamps down to the brass - sacriledge!

[Studio25]

Originally Posted by Michael1954

Oh, and drivers who join or leave a motorway without bothering to indicate get my gander up! Grr!

Why?

Drivers joining the motorway - why indicate their intention? What else could they be doing?

Driver leaving the motorway - I indicate from the 100 metre marker, but that's just out of habit. I can't see the difference (to me) if the car in front exits without indicating.

It would be nice if the people who slew across three carriageways in the last 200M before the ramp indicated.


As to the original posting about the Highway Code, it's available online, but it's been "adapted" for online use and the printed version is the one that's the legally accepted version.

I once did road signs as the picture round in my pub quiz. The scary result? Most people could guess the more obscure signs, but the ones we pass every day had a lot of people stumped.

[Michael1954]

Originally Posted by Studio25

Why?

Drivers joining the motorway - why indicate their intention? What else could they be doing?

Driver leaving the motorway - I indicate from the 100 metre marker, but that's just out of habit. I can't see the difference (to me) if the car in front exits without indicating.

True, but it's courtesy to indicate.

[Michael1954]

Originally Posted by Studio25

Why?

Drivers joining the motorway - why indicate their intention? What else could they be doing?

Driver leaving the motorway - I indicate from the 100 metre marker, but that's just out of habit. I can't see the difference (to me) if the car in front exits without indicating.

It would be nice if the people who slew across three carriageways in the last 200M before the ramp indicated.


As to the original posting about the Highway Code, it's available online, but it's been "adapted" for online use and the printed version is the one that's the legally accepted version.

I once did road signs as the picture round in my pub quiz. The scary result? Most people could guess the more obscure signs, but the ones we pass every day had a lot of people stumped.

I've just checked your link. It does say signal before leaving a motorway. I will have to own up that I don't have a copy of the Highway Code. I will put it on my shopping list!

[maxthecollie]

Originally Posted by jaysay

There are people who these rules and regs don't apply to Max, well apparently so

Does that mean Max Cabs

[yerself]

Originally Posted by jaysay

You didn't see that little flashing light did you yerself and then said darn it

Didn't know I'd been done til the brown envelope arrived.

Originally Posted by cashman

Perhaps yeh weren't done by Greater Manchester Police Yerself?

Lancashire Constabulary, a mobile camera near Rossendale ski slope. I had to go to a business park in Leyland for the course.

[Gordon Booth]

Originally Posted by MargaretR

In the 40s, my dad had an Austin 7 for family weekend camping trips - no indicators whatsoever - hand signals were the only way, but there weren't many other vehicles on the road who you needed to signal to.

My first car, Margaret-I learnt to drive in it and passed my test(1959?).
Cost me £7 and my father made me save up to pay for it.
Children used to run alongside cheering me(embarrassing for a 19 year old) and the problem was if I was on a hill I couldn't accelerate away from them!
No indicators, no heater, no starter motor, crash gear box.
Gremlin- the Trough of Bowland- the brakes were'nt up to that, turned it over at the bottom of the hill! The girl wasn't amused.
The Highway Code was short and sweet then.

[wallop79]

Originally Posted by Michael1954

Another bugbear of mine is drivers who put on their fog lights when it isn't foggy.

That is my biggest bugbear, I get my own back on them if there isn't another car behind them I put my lights on full beam to give them a taste of their own medicine. Another is those stupid L.E.D lights (Audi's spring to mind most) which blind ya too. They should be banned.

[Gremlin]

Originally Posted by Gordon Booth

My first car, Margaret-I learnt to drive in it and passed my test(1959?).
Gremlin- the Trough of Bowland- the brakes were'nt up to that, turned it over at the bottom of the hill! The girl wasn't amused.
The Highway Code was short and sweet then.

That's how learnt to go down through the gears when descending steep hills.

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by yerself

Didn't know I'd been done til the brown envelope arrived.



Lancashire Constabulary, a mobile camera near Rossendale ski slope. I had to go to a business park in Leyland for the course.

Oh they're sneaky now too are they, how much do these courses cost yerself I know they are not free, but it does keep the 3 points of your licence

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by Gremlin

That's how learnt to go down through the gears when descending steep hills.

The old days of doubling your clutch when changing down Gremlin, I learnt a lot of the time in a land rover and that's the only way you could change down in them in those days

[cashman]

Originally Posted by jaysay

Oh they're sneaky now too are they, how much do these courses cost yerself I know they are not free, but it does keep the 3 points of your licence

Dearer than the fine thats fer sure, I took the 3 pts first time, but they have run out now, so i did the course.