Recently on this group there was a discussion about E10 fuel and chainsaw petrol lawn mowers etc.
Shouty man on Youtube has produced some observations on E85, E10 and non-ethonol petrol with and without stabilisers showing corrosion on aluminium parts, rubber and plastic parts and including trying to run a lawn mower on (9 month) old fuel.
What do the battle-of-Britain spitfires, hurricanes and Lancaster run on ?.
Avgas of course!
Top tip: Add 150ml of water to a litre of E10 and shake well. Leave to settle and decant the E0 petrol leaving the 40% home made whiskey.
I would suggest that super unleaded would work out cheaper. There is no requirement to add ethanol to Super Unleaded, or it can be up to 5%. Might be worthwhile checking with suppler.
At first glance, I thought that said "£10 fuel".
It wont be long now... its £6 a gallon now
I can remember it being 1s/6d Inflation is wonderful...
I can remember my father buying it for 2/9d (late 1940s). For my first car (1963) it was 4/11d. Yours must be a pre-WW2 price.
I can remember a pint of beer being 1s/10d (working mans club price)
Google suggests 1s/6d around 1970
You are also correct, Google suggests 5 bob per gallon in 1963
I can remember the 2/- cigarette machine (10 Players) being upgraded to
2/1d = and it didn't matter in which order you fed the coins ;-)
Someone is getting confused. Petrol was a little under 5 bob a gallon in London when I started driving (1967) or about a shilling a litre.
UK went metric in 1965 so 1/6d became 7.5p.
IIRC paraffin was about 2 bob a gallon in the 60's, this had less tax than petrol. Perhaps this is what TNP was thinking of? (or red diesel).
When I went to college "ordinary" was 1/8 in my local, "best" was 1/10, and keg was 2/4. That was 1967. (My earlier post was wrong, I started driving in 1966).
Some pubs I went to had an extra 2d if you drank in the saloon bar rather than the public bar. One pub I frequented wouldn't allow anyone into the saloon bar without a tie and jacket - the saloon bar was mainly empty whilst the public bar packed out :)
Um, 1971 before our currency went ?metric?.
In message snipped-for-privacy@candehope.me.uk>, charles snipped-for-privacy@candehope.me.uk> writes
4s/+ in 1961. £1.00 filled my Morris tourer tank. >
I can remember that price in pubs.
Mild: 1/10, bitter 1/11.
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D-day was 15th February, 1971.
I remember waiting at a filling station in 1972 while a Jaguar in front of me was attendant-filled
I couldn't believe it when it took £7 worth of 4-star. The tank of my Anglia took about £1.75 (at 32p a gallon) to fill it.
But that was a fifth of what many people were earning
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