http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Paper Round.... By Car.... en Mon, 01 Jun 2026 03:44:00 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9358#post-98293 Mon, 28 Jan 2013 20:32:55 +0000 cb 98293@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Model railway OO gauge is 1/76</p> <p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OO_gauge">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OO_gauge</a></p> <p>Only found out the other day on a BBC4 Prog about model railways (repeat?) that Hornby originally marketed this as Hornby Dublo. So did OO come from that name or was it the other way around. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9358#post-98274 Mon, 28 Jan 2013 18:22:31 +0000 kaputnik 98274@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>1/72</p> <p>For those who don't talk pre-metric that's 1" to 6'.<br /> </em></p> <p>The original plastic-bag Airfixes were sold as 1/72nd scale. I'm not sure they ever used imperial measurement to describe them?</p> <p>I never did get to the bottom of why the land vehicles and little soldiers came in 1/76 and were therefore marginally incompatible. I had a vague inkling it was because they were made to model railway scales. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9358#post-98270 Mon, 28 Jan 2013 18:10:46 +0000 chdot 98270@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>1/72</p> <p>For those who don't talk pre-metric that's 1" to 6'. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9358#post-98269 Mon, 28 Jan 2013 18:07:43 +0000 kaputnik 98269@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>which just happened to be the exact price of an Airfix model kit.</em></p> <p>Heh, that was my measure of how much pocket money I thought I should get too :) although it were more like £3.99 in my day for your basic single-engine 1/72 kit. It took a good many weeks if not months to save up for something like a Lancaster or the Sunderland. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9358#post-98266 Mon, 28 Jan 2013 18:03:21 +0000 Lezzles 98266@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>My brother-in-laws father used to do this for his foster son. It was because said teenager would chuck them in the bin if he didn't drive him round. It was meant to be part of teaching him a lesson that hard work will bring rewards. </p> <p>Don't think it worked particularly well. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9358#post-98262 Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:45:57 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 98262@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Got to be 16 or over to get minimum wage.</p> <p>I remember my very first pay packet for my paper round being £11, and it was Wimbledon fortnight, so I bought a tennis racket.</p> <p>As soon as I started a paper round my pocket money was stopped. £2.15 a week, which just happened to be the exact price of an Airfix model kit. Ah, them were the days. Living on a council estate, growing up with little, that salary for the paper round felt like a fortune (and I was on a rota for getting in at 5am every third week for a week which got us an extra tenner or something a week). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9358#post-98252 Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:25:07 +0000 DaveC 98252@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I know a solicitor in Strathaven who does just this. Bonkers!! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9358#post-98251 Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:18:57 +0000 Claggy Cog 98251@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>'ealf and safety...cannot have the poor dears getting muscles, exercise or damaging themselves carrying a load of newspapers! Sign of the times! The money by the way is shockingly bad...way, way below the minimum wage. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9358#post-98247 Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:56:00 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 98247@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Saturday morning I was heading out for a spin on the bike and saw a teenage lad out on his paper round. Nothing unusual in that, and sadly I don't think there's too much unusual in the fact that his mum was in a Renault Clio at the side of the road, engine running, sorting out his next paper.</p> <p>Okay, there <em>might</em> be a reason she was driving him round his paper round, but I've seen this kind of thing a lot since the days when I was a paper boy. Seems along the same lines as more and more kids being driven to school. </p>