Heralding - The Fireblade - Falkenbach

Advantages: Ahead of its time
Disadvantages: Handled very poorly. Slow.

...~ ~ When I was a teenager back in 1963, the first car my father ever bought was an old Ford Anglia in which I learned my basic driving skills. Three years later it was traded in, and a brand spanking new car arrived on the doorstep. A Triumph Herald 12/50, in lovely gleaming white, matching white colour-coded rubber bumpers, with a canvas slide-back sunroof, and to top it all, a RADIO. This was nirvana for a 15-year-old boy heavily into the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and all the popular music of the time, and a vast improvement on the old Dansette transistor radio that had sat on the dashboard of the old Anglia, which had truly dreadful reception. ~ ~ In those days cars still had to be ?run in?, and great care was taken for the first thousand miles, with no heavy strain being put on the engine, and the top speed limited (by... Read review

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Advantages: Ease of maintenance. Running costs. Quite advanced in many ways
Disadvantages: Strange mixture of old and new ideas. 'Odd' cornering to say the least

...I guess we all remember our first cars with a degree of affection, especially when the rose-coloured glasses of a thirty-three-year passage of time enhance that memory. SOB STORY I didn?t have anyone to treat me to driving lessons on my 17th birthday ? I?d come from a non car-owning family, and so it all had to wait until I could afford it myself, driving lessons, vehicle purchase and insurance. In the end, I passed my test and bought a car sometime around my 21st birthday. NO PLEASE, DON?T THROW MONEY ? I?LL GET MY OWN I was determined that I wasn?t going to go down the route of ?decrepit old banger? for my first car (girlfriends, yes, cars, no) so in 1971, I bought a five year old low-ish mileage Triumph Herald 12/50. Lovely it looked too, in that classy royal blue of the day touched off by those white rubber strakes that... Read review

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Advantages: Close to station and local amenities
Disadvantages: More like student accommodation

...After writing my review on Edinburgh at New Year, I thought it would be worth my time writing a review on the accommodation that we stayed in. Finding accommodation for New Year is hard, you can normally get accommodation close to the town for the 30th December and 1st January but New Years Eve itself isvery hard as a lot of people only stay for the day. I searched the web and came across the Herald House hotel, they did not have booking facilities on their own website so I gave them a call and luckily they had a double room for the three days over New Year. Bonus. Location Situated approximately 5 mins taxi drive from Haymarket Station. Taxi's are extremely well priced in Edinburgh especialy during that time of year, I thought it would cost a fortune but they are very competitive in comparison with taxi's from where i come... Read review

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