For those Brwreakshiteers who wanted to take us back to the heady days of the 1970's, here is a lesson on the sunlit-uplands of post oil crisis inflation!
Basset-Lowke 'The Waterloo Cannons'
Daily Telegraph Magazine (Sunday Supplement)
No.469 October 26th 1973
Basset-Lowke 'The Waterloo Cannons'
Sunday Times Magazine (Sunday Supplement)
November 17th 1974In less than fourteen months, they went up nearly 25%! That's how it was when we were begging to join the EEC, which De Gualle had tried to keep us out of (The UK's applications to join in 1963 and 1967 were vetoed by the President of France).
Basset-Lowke, an old railway modelling name often used by its various owners for oddities which don't belong in the standard lines! Lovely looking guns and just the sort of thing to turn-up in a charity shop, or auction job-lot. Possibly a bit big at around 60 or 70mm compatible? Anyone know them?
My RAC breakdown insurance has gone up by 120% in a year.
ReplyDeleteI'm dreading the whole MOT (imminent) and Insurance (March?) thing!
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