[jambutty]

The very first gallon of petrol that I bought was back in the late fifties for two shillings and eleven pence – a fraction under 15p in today’s money.

To fill the 4.5 gallons tank on my Triumph Thunderbird 650cc twin motorbike it cost me 13 shillings and 6 pence and that was enough to get me home from Fareham to Blackburn and half way back. I had the carb tuned for economy but even so the old bike still had a decent turn of speed comfortably past today’s maximum speed limit not that there were any motorways in those days.