In message , at 14:13:18 on Sun, 29
Jun 2008, Steve Fitzgerald ] remarked:
At the time, I remember a lot of complaints that the new 50p and 2s/10p
were too similar and could be confused, especially by older people. I
think originally the only difference was

They had different writing on them too

that the 50p was very slightly larger and had the pointy sides whereas
the 2s/10p was round.

And an unmilled vs milled edge, iirc.
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Roland Perry

On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:38:16 +0100, Roland Perry
wrote:

In message , at 14:13:18 on Sun, 29
Jun 2008, Steve Fitzgerald ] remarked:
At the time, I remember a lot of complaints that the new 50p and 2s/10p
were too similar and could be confused, especially by older people. I
think originally the only difference was

They had different writing on them too

that the 50p was very slightly larger and had the pointy sides whereas
the 2s/10p was round.

And an unmilled vs milled edge, iirc.

And a 50p is not round.

On 10 Jun, 07:33, Martin Edwards wrote:
John @ home wrote:
On Jun 9, 8:50 pm, 1506 wrote:
On Jun 9, 9:33 am, nessuno2001 wrote: Hello everybody,
do you know how much was a ticket for the London underground in the
early '60s?

In preparation for decimalisation in 1971, London Transport moved all
fares to be multiples of 6d, which had an exact conversion at 2.5p.
And they were one of the last organisations to make widespread use of
the half (new) penny before its abolition.

In doing this, they were one of the few large organisations to be
completely transparent about decimalisation. Most took the opportunity
to introduce a hidden price increase, even other nationalised
transport bodies. Scottish Omnibuses increased the fare from my home
town to the nearest city from 2s 3d (just over 11p) to 13p.

John

The day before the switch, the price of most beer was 3/- per pint. The
day of the switch, it was the equivalent price of 15p. The day after it
was 16p, a swingeing rise at the time, though it pales into
insignificance today.

--
Corporate society looks after everything. All it asks of anyone, all it
has ever asked of anyone, is that they do not interfere with management
decisions. -From “Rollerball”

You were done - in affluent NW Hampshire beer averaged at 2/4d a pint
and went to 12p on decimalisation which equates to 28.8d. When I
started drinking about 12 years before D-Day I paid 1/3d pint for
Simmonds, 1/5d for Strongs and 1/6d for Marstons - that 3d difference
was a lot of money at those prices.
Pete Y

18 May 1965: "What is claimed to be the only robot railway ticket
collector in the world began work at 7 a.m. at Acton Town Underground
station, London. Automatic Bill, as the staff call the machine,
swallows tickets like oysters, and coughs up the bad ones."

Lemmy

So that was the origin of Oyster cards - I often wondered!

Pete Y

On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:32:14 +0100, Charles Ellson
wrote:

On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:38:16 +0100, Roland Perry
wrote:

In message , at 14:13:18 on Sun, 29
Jun 2008, Steve Fitzgerald ] remarked:
At the time, I remember a lot of complaints that the new 50p and 2s/10p
were too similar and could be confused, especially by older people. I
think originally the only difference was

They had different writing on them too

that the 50p was very slightly larger and had the pointy sides whereas
the 2s/10p was round.

And an unmilled vs milled edge, iirc.

And a 50p is not round.

Ah, you seem to have said that already but without using the phrase
"equilateral curve heptagon". ;-)

Pete wrote:

When I started drinking about 12 years before D-Day I paid 1/3d pint
for Simmonds, 1/5d for Strongs and 1/6d for Marstons - that 3d
difference was a lot of money at those prices.

Yes, but you appear to have forgotten the convention for writing the
amounts down. It would be either "1s 3d" or "1/3". If one of your prices
had been 1s 4d, then the way you wrote them would have indicated a
farthing.
--
http://gallery120232.fotopic.net/p11938601.html
(45 132 at Alresford (Hampshire), 2 Sep 1999)

On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:39:45 -0500, Stephen Sprunk
wrote:

I get the impression that folks in Europe only get credit cards from the
bank that they have checking/savings accounts with.

That's not now the case in the UK, though it probably was 20 years
ago. In general it's much easier to pick and choose different
financial products from different banks than was once the case. And
there are now numerous credit cards promoted as stand-alone products,
not linked to a particular bank account, whereas the earliest British
credit cards - Access (MasterCard) and Barclaycard (Visa) - were
marketed by banks to their existing customers.

That is rare in the
US; most people get a debit/ATM card linked to their checking account,
but get their credit cards from another bank and use checks to pay the
bills.

I doubt many people in Britain still use cheques to pay their credit
card bills, in preference to instructing bill payments by phone or
Internet.

Martin

"Chris Tolley" wrote in message
...
Pete wrote:

When I started drinking about 12 years before D-Day I paid 1/3d pint
for Simmonds, 1/5d for Strongs and 1/6d for Marstons - that 3d
difference was a lot of money at those prices.

Yes, but you appear to have forgotten the convention for writing the
amounts down. It would be either "1s 3d" or "1/3". If one of your prices
had been 1s 4d, then the way you wrote them would have indicated a
farthing.
--

Thought it would also have been set off as 1' 3".

I doubt many people in Britain still use cheques to pay their credit
card bills, in preference to instructing bill payments by phone or
Internet.


Haven't written a cheque in donkey's years.



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Cheers

Roger T.
Home of the Great Eastern Railway at:-
http://www.highspeedplus.com/~rogertra/
Latitude: 48° 25' North
Longitude: 123° 21' West

On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:51:50 +0100, Martin Rich
wrote:

I doubt many people in Britain still use cheques to pay their credit
card bills, in preference to instructing bill payments by phone or
Internet.

I can't see cheques in the UK lasting another 10 years at all, to be
honest. In the US, though, my understanding is that many people still
get paid by cheque, which in the UK is almost completely unknown -
direct bank transfer is the usual.

Neil

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Neil Williams
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