[Misc] Builders hard hats on car rear parcel shelf, late 80s/early 90’s

[Don Tmatter]

Does anyone around in the late 80’s / early 90’s remember a fad of people placing different coloured builders hard hats on the rear parcel shelf or dashboard to act as a code for being open to differing nefarious activities?

Came up in a conversation the other day and I vaguely remembered it going on.

 

[Horses Arse]

Does anyone around in the late 80’s / early 90’s remember a fad of people placing different coloured builders hard hats on the rear parcel shelf or dashboard to act as a code for being open to differing nefarious activities?

Came up in a conversation the other day and I vaguely remembered it going on.

No. Never heard anything of the kind. Sounds like a very niche market

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[dazzer6666]

Does anyone around in the late 80’s / early 90’s remember a fad of people placing different coloured builders hard hats on the rear parcel shelf or dashboard to act as a code for being open to differing nefarious activities?

Came up in a conversation the other day and I vaguely remembered it going on.

Sounds similar to the Navy wives of Plymouth and Portsmouth..........a carton of washing powder in the kitchen window signifying the old man was away at sea apparently........

 

[BN9 BHA]

Sounds similar to the Navy wives of Plymouth and Portsmouth..........a carton of washing powder in the kitchen window signifying the old man was away at sea apparently........

OMO washing powder, Old Man Out
I worked on a building site in Selsey back in the mid 90s, the carpenters were from Pompey and one of them told me about this.

 

[lawros left foot]

OMO washing powder, Old Man Out
I worked on a building site in Selsey back in the mid 90s, the carpenters were from Pompey and one of them told me about this.

This was a bit of an urban legend around Pompey. I used to visit Rowner, the big naval married patch in Gosport a fair bit and never saw it, and never heard of it really being a thing. That doesn't mean there wasn't a few of the wives on the estate going over the side ,though.


I wonder if there were brown hard hats left on the parcel shelves of cars.
The ex Matelots on here will know what I mean.

 

[Weststander]

Sounds similar to the Navy wives of Plymouth and Portsmouth..........a carton of washing powder in the kitchen window signifying the old man was away at sea apparently........

Bold?

 

[el punal]

Sounds similar to the Navy wives of Plymouth and Portsmouth..........a carton of washing powder in the kitchen window signifying the old man was away at sea apparently........

I wonder how Barry Scott and his Cillit Bang would have gone down?

 

[Sorrel]

There was of course the handkerchief code, which had a similar signalling purpose. Depends what the builders were into, I guess.

 

[banjo]

Hope it’s chips tonight. Oh! Wrong advert.

 

[Icy Gull]

There was of course the handkerchief code, which had a similar signalling purpose. Depends what the builders were into, I guess.

I was aware of that, was it a handkerchief hanging from the back pocket of jeans?

 

[Sorrel]

I was aware of that, was it a handkerchief hanging from the back pocket of jeans?

It's on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handkerchief_code

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Hope it’s chips tonight. Oh! Wrong advert.

Fried onion rings?

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

It's on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handkerchief_code

So Bruce Springsteen was into passive fisting according to the cover of Born in the USA.

 

[dazzer6666]

Bold?

Omo

 

[studio150]

So Bruce Springsteen was into passive fisting according to the cover of Born in the USA.

Not sure that a baseball cap is a handkerchief in the context alluded to.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Not sure that a baseball cap is a handkerchief in the context alluded to.

Oh, my mistake. Makes sense. I did wonder why a man called The Boss is fisted passively.

 

[Jack Straw]

Fried onion rings?

We'll have to wait and see.

 

[Lindfield by the Pond]

We'll have to wait and see.

I hope it's chips, but we'll have to wait and see

 

[Giraffe]

Pampas grass in your front garden.

 

[Don Tmatter]

No. Never heard anything of the kind. Sounds like a very niche market

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Must have been then, can’t remember if it was just Mid Sussex or further afield.