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1960: A Shared Resource
Another charming evocation from a bygone age. They’ve even got their helmets on their laps.
Oh dear! I’ve just spotted an incorrect apostrophe! And in 1960 too. Standards were already slipping.
Made me smile this, a place i visit has a car park and dinnertime trysts often occur.
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1960: The Birth of the Mini
In this drawing David Langdon has exaggerated just how small the mini really was. Even so, its compact measurement was at first a shock to the motoring public. The salesman doesn’t look too happy about it either.
Indeed, and looking at today’s ‘minis’, one could be forgiven for believing that the name is now completely inappropriate.
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1960: A Grasp of Essentials
The lady motorist concentrates on what she values.
Again all the men are wearing hats – and that’s not only those in uniform. This is quite wrong for 1960 in my opinion. I can only suggest that cartoonists like David Langdon are influenced by what men used to wear when they themselves were young.
“I can only suggest that cartoonists like David Langdon are influenced by what men used to wear when they themselves were young.”
Or maybe to indicate the class divisions. City gent in bowler perhaps solicitor or banker, chap in trilby maybe a manager of some kind and flat cap wearer is a blue collar worker?
Or maybe to indicate the class divisions. City gent in bowler perhaps solicitor or banker, chap in trilby maybe a manager of some kind and flat cap wearer is a blue collar worker?
Yes, Judd I agree. Men’s hats would immediately indicate class. When chaps stopped wearing them it was just one step nearer the ‘classless society.’
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1960: Is This a Unique Selling Proposition?
Sales people live in a world of their own. He is in effect telling these prospects that they are going to spend deal of time not getting anywhere in their car. Why then would they want to buy a car? He would call this turning a problem into an opportunity.
£865 was a lot of money in 1960 to say nothing of the extras. Tax, of course, but wheels are also extra? Surely not!
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1960: A Big Order
You still had to wait for three years in order to buy a new luxury car 15 years after the war had ended. I don’t remember this detail as I wasn’t buying new cars of any sort.
Again these men are all wearing hats. I have to conclude that I belonged to the minority. I am absolutely certain that I didn’t even possess a hat at that time.
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1960: The New Style Motor Car
This style, once so highly prized, clearly predates worries about fuel consumption let alone carbon footprints.
It is the capacious size of the boot that seems to have surprised the two visitors to the motor show. There would now no longer be much need for a roof rack.
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1960: Teenage Fashions
A major factor in determining every teenage fashion is its capacity to offend the previous generation. This cartoon accurately portrays the bewilderment of the girl’s parents.
I know that I’m intruding into unknown territory here but I would imagine that this fashion trend didn’t last very long.
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1960: Walking or Riding
At one level this joke is about the use of the word ‘walk’ when none the striking workers are in fact walking off the premises.
At another level I suspect that there is a political agenda at work here. The suggestion surely is that if they own something on wheels then they can’t be that badly paid. (Not many are riding on pedal cycles.) There are hints of ‘you’ve never had it so good’ here.
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1960: She’s Obviously Right
He doesn’t look the sort that needs an excuse…
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1960: Modern Art
Punch cartoonists have regularly made fun of modern art and this is no exception.
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1960: Not Always Dishing it Out
Tax officials also should pay tax. This kind of scenario is not allowed to happen but the thought is a valid theme for a cartoon.
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1960: Cynicism About TV? Surely Not!
Today’s accusations go much deeper than this.
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1960: Internal Dissension
That was the time of the Bevanites versus the Gaitskellites. After the unexpected death of Gaiters and Aneurin it was Wilson who inherited the throne. Prior to his elevation Wilson was a Bevanite but afterwards he behaved like a Gaitskellite.
Such bitter in-fighting within the Labour Party couldn’t happen now, could it?
Excellent! That could be re-published as topical today!
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1960: A Not Altogether Implausible Scenario
This scene could almost be happening today. Only the range of electronic gadgets now available prevents it from actually happening.
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1960: Looking into the Future
I don’t know what would happen if a General was court-martialled but reduction to the rank of Private doesn’t seem at all likely. Premature retirement, I would have thought. The bottle of whisky and a loaded revolver scenario no longer chimes with the times.
