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14th May 2020, 20:10 | #1 |
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Petrol Prices
With the collapse in demand for fuel, this evening i filled the 190 up with petrol at Morrisons in Stone, Staffs at 99.7p per litre. When was the last time it was below a £1.
Then again when i had my first car in August 1973 petrol was about 33p per gallon with beer at 11p per pint. Good night out on a £1. Must be getting old as going to part time working this Summer! |
15th May 2020, 00:33 | #2 |
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In the early 70s, between leaving school and being old enough to join the RAF, I worked at a garage both on the forecourt and in the tyre bay. This was long before self service and customers used to come in and ask for a pound's worth of petrol which got them three and a bit gallons! First pint of bitter I ever bought (at the tender age of 14 - don't tell anyone) cost me the princely sum of one and tenpence in pre-decimal currency.
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From a now bad memory the petrol was just under 7 shillings a gallon (35p today) Relatively petrol is much cheaper now.
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Nice Speed Twin My first was also a Cub, back in 1971 - the original 50's one with a distributor. Haven't got a picture of it sadly, and can't remember what the petrol cost in real money, but my next bike was this T-Bird in 1972 (sorry, Mum wasn't much good with a camera), and I remember petrol then being 35p a gallon (so 7½p a litre in French, if my calculations are correct, which they probably aren't).
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15th May 2020, 16:26 | #5 |
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£4 5d a gallon when I started driving . I had a pounds worth each week, the girl who manned the pumps used to just top it up without asking . The garage was Smallbones in corner of Raddlebarn Road & Gristhorpe Rd . Birmingham . Still there by the looks of it. Used to specialise in pre war Austins at one time.
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15th May 2020, 09:14 | #7 |
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BP & Esso by us are still sticking to the customer, £1.17 & £1.19 you can add another 12p to that if you use their best diesel.
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15th May 2020, 09:56 | #8 |
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113 a litre for diesel where i live don't know about petrol as i don't use it rgds mark
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15th May 2020, 10:39 | #9 |
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Didn't need any on my trip to the Supermarket today, but noted it was still up at £1.09 per litre at the Shell station I use.
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15th May 2020, 10:56 | #10 |
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My first gallon of petrol (in my motorcycle) cost me 4 shillings and tenpence. I added two shots of redex to make a round five bob! (25 new pence) Ahhh! Those were the days! I have since lost all my hair!
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