On Tue, 31 Mar 2015 09:00:21 +0100, Tim Lamb
wrote:



I remember London trams, the farthing and petrol at 2/6d a gallon, but
I'm not yet old or frail.

I'll raise you Trolley Buses!


My Mother when asked how old she was often replied "as old as my
tongue but not as old as my teeth."

My version has been on occasion "old enough to ridden the Trolley
buses ,not old enough to have seen the Trams.
Both ref London. Both modes survived a little longer in other
places.
I was taken on a Glasgow Tram before they closed 1962 in a proper
cityscape which the Blackpool line when it became the sole one in the
UK wasn't representative of. And has it turned out an older relation
of my missus was a Clippie on Bournemouth Trolleys in the 1960's and
has some interesting tales about the problems of the things especially
with regard to the poles coming off in awkward places , sometimes she
caused it by pulling the wire switches by a chain on a pole by a road
junction at the wrong moment because her or the driver had forgotten
what route they were taking.

G.Harman