FCF AA BOX Challenge 2019-Just Jersey left!

[Rp0thejester]

Wasn't the AA invented by motorists to warn other drivers of police near by? Or did I imagine that? Also can someone explain how people got the AA badges on the front of their vehicles.

[Hell Razor5543]

Wasn't the AA invented by motorists to warn other drivers of police near by? Or did I imagine that? Also can someone explain how people got the AA badges on the front of their vehicles.

Correct!

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/feat ... ding-fines

[Rp0thejester]

Hopefully CitroJim will tell his cyclist friends this and help us motorists out

[NewcastleFalcon]

AA Badges. From the horses mouth

https://www.theaa.com/about-us/aa-history/car-badges

AAHistory from the horses mouth

https://www.theaa.com/about-us/aa-history

Neil

[Rp0thejester]

Thanks, those badges looked awesome until they went for the AA square

[Peter.N.]

I remember one in the middle of Dartmoor that had a wind turbine on the top, the old Lucas Freelight type, presumably it was just for the light. This was in the '50s I expect its long gone now.

Peter

[CitroJim]

This PDF gives all the locations of all AA boxes in 1962...

https://www.theaa.com/resources/Documen ... o-1962.pdf

[momag46]

Also every member received a yearly handbook containing maps and other info like road signs etc.
They also produced a road atlas called “The AA Book Of The Road” where the right hand edge of the pages folded over with the map on both side of the fold, it made it easy to follow the road onto the next page. I think it was one of the best maps available at the time.
Maurice

[Paul-R]

Also every member received a yearly handbook containing maps and other info like road signs etc.

They did indeed. It was their decision to stop publishing it that prompted me to leave the AA.

They also produced a road atlas called “The AA Book Of The Road” where the right hand edge of the pages folded over with the map on both side of the fold, it made it easy to follow the road onto the next page. I think it was one of the best maps available at the time.
Maurice

Fully agree. It was an excellent idea.

[mickthemaverick]

This is in my collection:

Thee Touring Guide

The places

The maps

I'm still looking for my last member's handbook!

[NewcastleFalcon]

Also every member received a yearly handbook containing maps and other info like road signs etc.
They also produced a road atlas called “The AA Book Of The Road” where the right hand edge of the pages folded over with the map on both side of the fold, it made it easy to follow the road onto the next page. I think it was one of the best maps available at the time.
Maurice

Come on who's still got one, cameras at the ready please FCF-ers 50 points for an original photo.


Neil

[myglaren]

I'm afraid that mine and my dad's are long gone. Haven't been in the AA since 1983.

[NewcastleFalcon]

I will find it hard to believe if amongst the viewers and posters of the "FCF Community" no-one has an AA Book of the Road. So while we await the award of 50 points for the first original photo to be submitted, here is the similar sized Readers digest AA Book of British Birds resident at chez Falcon. As I remember it the pages of the AA book of the road also included some useful spotting pages of birds/flowers etc as well as road signs but I may be wrong.

Meanwhile as the only AA box remaining in situ to be spotted is at Trinity on the Channel Island of Jersey, I think the thread can cope with a bit of a dalliance, and a further 50 points quest for an original photo of an AA Members Car Badge. As Ryan pointed out the rectangle thing just doesn't cut-it so just a token 1 point for one of those

Falcon Original

Neil

[myglaren]

My dad had one of those but an earlier edition, blue leather hardback and very good paper and illustrations.
I was just wondering last week where it, and his other books, had gone.
Same ways as all his tools I imagine.

[mickthemaverick]

I came across another AA publication from my library:

MTM Original