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Top Tips 1974
« on: May 29, 2016, 01:15:12 PM »
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Re: Top Tips 1974
« Reply #1 on: May 29, 2016, 06:31:28 PM »
A WHOLE £2 for every tip used!! HA HA

They loved an inner tube back then.  :)

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Re: Top Tips 1974
« Reply #2 on: May 30, 2016, 08:27:09 AM »
£2 was what I earned for my Saturday job in 1974. So that was a whole days money for a 16 year old.
What's the equivalent today?


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Re: Top Tips 1974
« Reply #3 on: May 30, 2016, 10:40:14 AM »
£2 was what I earned for my Saturday job in 1974. So that was a whole days money for a 16 year old.
What's the equivalent today?


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Approx £14.50.

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Re: Top Tips 1974
« Reply #4 on: May 30, 2016, 10:41:24 AM »
You were well paid, I used to get half a crown from my dads boss for going out with him for a Saturday(2shillings and sixpence to you young uns)

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Re: Top Tips 1974
« Reply #5 on: May 30, 2016, 10:50:24 AM »
You were well paid, I used to get half a crown from my dads boss for going out with him for a Saturday(2shillings and sixpence to you young uns)

The good old days.
In 1973 I bought a new Triumph Bonneville T120R for £518.00,wonder what that would be worth now.

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Re: Top Tips 1974
« Reply #6 on: May 30, 2016, 11:00:57 AM »
You were well paid, I used to get half a crown from my dads boss for going out with him for a Saturday(2shillings and sixpence to you young uns)
Or for the really young ones like Green 1 and Honda All, that's twelve and a half pence!
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Re: Top Tips 1974
« Reply #7 on: May 30, 2016, 11:39:14 AM »
Making me feel a bit old, when I started work I was on three pound ten shillings a week and my D7 Bantam cost me £35, plus £5 to insureit, I can't remember what the tax was then though.

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Re: Top Tips 1974
« Reply #8 on: May 30, 2016, 12:10:38 PM »
I started my first Saturday job in 1975 at 47.5p per hour (that's when we still had the 1/2p).
My first SS50 cost me £120 and even came with the petrol coupons issued in 1973 at the time of the oil crisis.

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Re: Top Tips 1974
« Reply #9 on: May 30, 2016, 12:24:08 PM »
Wow Spitfire at least you are making me feel young. I started on £20 a week and the avatar pic is my CB500 that I paid I think £720 in August 74 from HGB in Harrow.
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Re: Top Tips 1974
« Reply #10 on: May 30, 2016, 08:15:39 PM »
I have these, found them at my Grandads house when clearing it out. Some interesting tips from back in the day...

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Re: Top Tips 1974
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