Overpricing at Blitz and Pieces

[malcolm]

How did Gary get away with the prices he charged?

In Series 3 Episode 3 "One O'Clock Jump" Gary charges something like 180 pounds for a bus map.

Today a 1940 bus map sells for 4 pounds and a 1943 map for 3 pounds - see www.busmap.co.uk/historic.html

Just noticed it when checking the No 12 route to Oxford Circus - the bus on which he contacts Madge and asks her to bring little Frankie to the Royal Oak to meet his father Reg.

We see Gary boarding the bus at the depot, which was possibly Croydon or Harlesden - see - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Buses_route_12

If you are reading this Terry, perhaps you could confirm exactly where the location of the bus depot was in this episode?

[malcolm]

Incidentally the bus registration number shown in this episode was AXM693.

[malcolm]

Something definitely strange going on. Not sure if I've mentioned the '33' sightings which have kept appearing night and day to me for at least 30 years.

The reason I made a note of the Bus Rego number was because I thought it looked like a '33' when shown on TV, so I paused the dvd and made sure.

I was even surprised when it turned out to be AXM693 and didn't have '33' in the number.

However I have just looked this bus up, and it shows it as a ROUTE 133 to South Croydon - not a number 12.

[malcolm]

The Bus where Gary met Margie and removed the bus maps

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[malcolm]

When I looked up route 133 it made more sense as this is the route that begins in Streatham or St. Reatham as Reg thought.

[jobsta]

In terms of the prices, I suspect that it was just a bit of artistic license used to maintain the idea of Gary making a living from the shop, and the cheap laugh of having him then replace it with a brand new one.

[ibindere]

Jul 20, 2012 19:36:02 GMT -5 malcolm said:

How did Gary get away with the prices he charged?

In Series 3 Episode 3 "One O'Clock Jump" Gary charges something like 180 pounds for a bus map.

Today a 1940 bus map sells for 4 pounds and a 1943 map for 3 pounds - see www.busmap.co.uk/historic.html

I dont think those bus maps are original malcolm. They appear to be reproduction, hence the low cost. You'll notice the price is the same even if you just download an e-version of it.

[malcolm]

Jul 23, 2012 8:14:17 GMT -5 ibindere said:

Jul 20, 2012 19:36:02 GMT -5 malcolm said:

How did Gary get away with the prices he charged?

In Series 3 Episode 3 "One O'Clock Jump" Gary charges something like 180 pounds for a bus map.

Today a 1940 bus map sells for 4 pounds and a 1943 map for 3 pounds - see www.busmap.co.uk/historic.html

I dont think those bus maps are original malcolm. They appear to be reproduction, hence the low cost. You'll notice the price is the same even if you just download an e-version of it.

Yes, I think you are absolutely right. The images on that site did bother me as they aren't at all like the bus maps I recall.

I must admit that though I often travelled on the buses in the 1940's I never picked up a map at that time. But I did hold on to one or two from the late 1950's. I may still have a Green Line map, but would have to search through my box of maps.

I would encourage everyone to hold on to every similar leaflet, docket or ticket they ever use. I have travel tickets going back to at least 1956 and they have come in useful so many times.

I seem to have lost my passage ticket for the Oronsay from Navarino Bay to Melbourne in 1956 which cost me 77 pounds, but I still have the return ticket Melbourne to London on the Orcades in November 1956 - 104 pounds sterling, 130 pounds australian. It is signed by my good friend George Franklin with whom I worked in the Orient Line Passage Office in Melbourne in 1956. That reminds me, I must catch up with George.

A Cooks coupon ticket from Victoria Station to Sirkeci, Istanbul also brings back the memories as does the Wagons-Lits voucher from Zidani Most junction in Yugoslavia to Istanbul.

So keep them all, even the simplest tube ticket.