Rootes

 Two tantalising adverts for the group's offerings taken from Autocar magazine, issue dated 18 October 1963.

 Tasteful nudes

It doesn't feature much these days, but during the 1950s, and through I think, to the 1990s, photographic magazines were keen to get their readers into nude or glamour work. Practical Photography for example would include several pages of adverts for either models for hire, or studios for rent (or both). I remember a vicar who complained that he would not let his son read the magazines because of their smutty content. 

These pictures were published as part of an article in the February 1958 issue of Popular Photography magazine, the models not named.

Jilly Johnson 

The actress and model graced the cover of Amateur Photographer, issue dated 18 May 1977, posing amid a mouth-watering collection of contemporary (now classic) film cameras.

 Mala Powers

In the 1950s, you were never far from a pin-up, even in the more mundane publications. This is Mary Ellen Powers (1931-2007) in the May 1952 issue of the Rootes Group Review magazine, apparently modelling a bloomer playsuit. She acted in many US films from the age of ten, until 2002.

John Benn

1930 paddle steamer John Benn working the Woolwich Ferry in 1960. It was named after the local politician and grandfather of Tony Benn, MP. Woolwich power station dominates the background.

Scanned from a negative in my collection. 

 Pre-war

I have not been able to post for ages, due, in part, from not being able to access my account, so here is  some definitely vintage stuff.

A Ford and an Austin on the south coast in the Portsmouth/Southsea area around 1951, scanned from a negative in my collection.

Queue for the loo

 Old Trolleybuses finding a subsequent life as public toilets were not that unusual. The Borough Council of Epsom & Ewell had several ex-Huddersfield Karriers and here is one at the Derby on 2 June 1965. Were the facilities for the gentlemen this exotic, I wonder?