A blast from the past

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Last week we were away at an event and while we were there, there happened to be several other things going on at the same place. One was a vintage car run. This one was obviously one of the earliest. It is literally a horseless carriage; apart from the lack of shafts it looks as though someone has just led the horses away. As we were driving back down the motorway with cars all around us at 70 mph (or even faster) I thought about how much has changed over the past couple of generations. When my parents were young there were hardly any cars. My mother’s father had a charabanc which was the only motor vehicle in the village and still had solid wooden ‘tyres’ on one set of wheels, but rubber on the other. My Dad remembered driving home with a friend on a chassis, building the bodywork later. I wonder what the next hundred years will bring? All rights reserved. © Text and image copyright Fleur 2024.