JUST THE TICKET

Hello Woodsy

Here are a couple of London Trolleybus tickets. I loved the colour combinations. 

I think the rough paper was chosen to be easier to handle as the tickets were issued as a block and the conductor had to peal off the front one. They would also be cheaper to make. 

London Buses had a built in bin on the platform for used tickets to be dropped when getting off, they were then recycled. 

Keep well, 

Terranova47

USA

TOY BUNNIES ON PLASTIC SCOOTERS: MY GUIDE BOOK TO JR21 NOVELTY TOYS

I published my latest book exactly one year ago!

"Toy Bunnies on Plastic Scooters"

Yay!

Its been 8 years in the making! I started it after publishing my last effort, The Art of SWORD.

It was fun to research and I'm glad its published now.

It's published and available through online self-publishing outlet Blurb

Here's just three of the 40 pages.

Our own Bill B took some of the photo's.

Its more expensive than I would have liked but that's Blurb publishing I'm afraid.

I've reduced the page number by half since I got my proof copy last month, so its now a slimmer coffee table book and as a result a bit less pricey.

If any of you should wish to check my book out further on Blurb then here's the link:

https://www.blurb.co.uk/b/9738228-toy-bunnies-on-plastic-scooters-vintage-sixties-pl

Should anyone want to purchase this book after you see Blurb's prices then don't forget to use Blurb's current offer promo code if there is one in your country when you get into the BLURB website. Just google it.

By all means ask me anything you want about how this thing came about or what it covers.

 

PRINTED PROJECT SWORD CARDS, CUSHIONS AND MORE!

Check these retro printed products out by Aleesha Nandhra. 

Moon McDare and Project SWORD!

 https://society6.com/aleeshanandhra

BY GUM!

Today I got chewing gum stuck allover my trousers. On the bum to be exact. Its the bane of all classroom staff and a real pain when it happens as it doesn't come off easily.

Noticing the offending gobbet when I took my pants off at home to get into my jamas I tried a technique I'd heard about, shove those trousers into the freezer and ice that gum!

In they went and 12 hours later ... it didn't work!

How would you remove chewing gum from your trousers readers?

WITH MY SPIDER SENSES TINGLING

God I would have loved this as a kid, a Spiderman guitar! What a combination!

As a collector and toy seller, this is the sort of thing I would have bought 20 years ago to put to one side and get out 20 years later, a collectable of the future. For a tenner its yours from Home Bargains stores!

As it happens I did away tons of stuff away twenty or so years ago. here are a couple of Spidey comics with cool free plastic pistols from 2003.

I've boxes and boxes of stuff like this!

Do you squirrel stuff away for a future day?

CEREAL SERIAL

Reader Tony P from Australia, home of R & L premiums, kindly sent me this shot of three unmade kits from the car series - the Tow Truck, E-Type Jaguar Convertible and Chrylser Valiant Stationwagon (bottom) as seen on my earlier post.

Arto, who is also as voracious a collector as myself, also sent some sets of Vintage Vehicles, such as Stepehenson's Rocket, a Covered Wagon, Steamboat, Tram,Stagecoach and a Kangaroo with wheels amongst other things!

Its surprising that these delicate premiums are still in circulation today, let alone, still unmade and in their original packets!
 

DEEP PURPLE'S BURN

When I was 13 or 14 I was a metal head.

I lived for the solo, the squawk of the riff and the thrum of the Fender bass.

Christmas 1974 was key moment on my journey to Valhalla. My Mum and Dad bought me Burn.

Burn was a Deep Purple album. Its the one with the dripping band-candles cover all in red with the word Burn in blue.

But that's just the cover.

The contents are that rare item. The whole damn package. The rock chops. A perfect thumping thing.

Burn is quite simply one of the finest hard rock albums ever to be fired in the blistering furnaces of Kerrang. 

From start to finish the mix of man and metal is a recipe for head-bangin' Elysium. 

Ritchie Blackmore's noble axe and David Coverdale's regal voice are glorious weapons battling with the forces of tedious pop muzak, grand buttresses of a pounding citadel where all air-guitarists did and do find life-long solace. Paice and Glen are the mighty foundations shouldered by a solid bedrock of titanic steel and skin.

Need I go on? Hard rock is often associated with bombast and pomp. So what! Let the punks moan and the New Romantics wail, this is the music of the gods.

The Rock Gods!

Thanks Mum and Dad wherever you are.

Join me readers and be burned!