Everyday life
The development of motor vehicles changed people’s everyday lives for ever. Suddenly, in the 1920s, many people could work further from home and visit distant places on holiday at a price they could afford. |
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Charabancs became popular for day trips in the 1910s and 1920s. The charabanc outing shown in this photograph was probably organised by a church group or a large company. It must have been exciting to go on a daytrip to the seaside for the first time. |
Although they were still expensive, cars became attainable for many working people in the 1930s and some invested in a caravan to make the most of their new found freedom. |
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All types of business were quick to adopt motor vehicles for distributing goods and mechanising jobs previously done by hand or by horses. This photograph shows a delivery van used by a grocery shop to deliver customers purchases. These vans were also used as a mobile advertisement for their company. |
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In the 1950s, mobile shops enabled retailers to reach customers who lived away from town centres or who were less likely to travel regularly to the shops. There were no supermarkets and few people had private cars to get them to town.
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