utterly random picture thread.

[Yambo]

[MrLongbeard]

FM Radio + liquid fuel! What year was that?

What a difference a year makes

C'mon the maths ain't that hard.
Either way even if it had DAB or DAB+ it'd still be tuned to an FM station, no reliable DAB signal round these parts

[Horse]

The SR-71 Blackbird, one of the most advanced aircraft ever built, took its first flight closer in time to the Wright brothers' historic lift-off than to today.

A jet that cruised at over 3 times the speed of sound and flew at altitudes that border space - an engineering marvel that broke records and continues to awe us to this day.

Yet, Blackbird’s first flight in 1964 is closer to the Wright brothers' 1903 Kitty Hawk moment than our current year.

[Skub]

Another streetfighter is born.

[Dodgy69]

Mystery pic ???

Is that Mr Blobby on the far right. Surely I would have spotted him earlier at this GS bonaza.

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[Taipan]

[Skub]

How did you get the contents of my wallet?

[Felix]

[Wossname]

Sad bloke that I am, I worked that out as 27d/hr i.e. 2 and 3 i.e. 2 shillings and thruppence an hour. If that was yours, you’re a good deal older than me! I hitched from NI to Kings Lynn to work in Donald Cooks canning factory when I was 17. We were getting 6 and 6 then, and us students all went on strike on behalf of the girls, who were only on 3 and 3. Half of the blokes pay. Quite normal then. It worked too, as they couldn’t do without the students doing seasonal work.

[Horse]

There's an idea for a thread / poll, 'starting pay'.

I think mine (1976, 18 yrs old) was about £17 a week.

[Felix]

First proper job was a YOPS scheme. Whatever that wage was in 79'/80

[gremlin]

IIRC it was about £3k a year, when I started working for RBS. Had to have a bank account and get paid into it, but when I worked at Bejam as a Saturday Boy, that was a proper brown, windowed wage envelope with about £20 in it.

[Taipan]

£28 a week in a bakery. I had a part time job there and just moved into full time whilst technically still at school. I moved into working in a garage, petrol pumps and tyre fitting etc for £35 a week. As I'd worked at the bakery a week in hand, my first week at the garage saw me with 2 pay packets. Man i was minted!

[Yorick]

Started on £29 per week.
At 23 it was £90 with extra tenner overtime.

Board n Lodge £20 week.
Race entries about £25.

Raced most weekends

[David]

£7 a week...brown envelope. grey's in Birmingham. 1967.or 1966.

[Druid]

I was 15 in 1973 and in the summer holidays I worked for my uncle, who was a builder. He paid me £7.50 a week iirc. No envelope, just cash in hand

[Skub]

£7 per 40 hour week in cash,as an apprentice in the aircraft industry. That was 1972 and I was 16.

A red bus from Belfast city centre to the Airport Road was 5p.

[v8-powered]

1987, 1st year apprentice for British Rail - £72 per week

[Mr. Dazzle]

My first "real job" salary was £25.5k.

I wish that had been in the 1970s

[mangocrazy]

My first job was doing breakfasts in a hotel and giving the residents their early morning tea/coffee. I can't even remember how much I got paid, except that it was a pittance. Things improved when I managed to get a job as a library assistant in about 1971 - as many books as you could eat and a frankly wonderful £17 a week. I stayed there until 1974, mainly because all the other library assistants were young and female. By that time my weekly wage had risen to £25 a week but it wasn't keeping pace with my increased spending, so I applied for an advert in the local paper for 'trainee computer operators' at the dizzying rate of £35 per week and that started a 45 year career in IT...