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[Alan]

The golden age of tut tuts came when they started to tarmac over the cobbles. Oh the joy that could be had from a set of old pram wheels, some wood and a length of rope.

[Dane]

Going like the clappers down Smithy Brew with a gang of your mates hanging on the best way they could.

[Dion]

I had a tut-tut in the sixties but I remember my mates dad making him one that was shown on Blue Peter.It had two long pieces on wood formed in a vee and it looked great,does anybody remember this from Blue Peter or is my memory playing tricks again?

Edited by Dion, 06 November 2004 - 02:19 PM.

[Dane]

Alan, It would seem that not many kids have had the unforgetable pleasure of owning their own tut tuts/trollies.

[Dave]

I had a good one that my dad made for me. I used to fly down Woodlands Road on it

[daveshome]

I had always wanted a Tut Tut but has a kid never got one, so I grew up with a space in my life, one day I was driving past the Oxfam shop in Bridge St Newton and sew the most wonderful pram for sale.
I jumped out of my car and snapped it up at a reasonable price of £5, took it home and helped my kids make a Tut Tut, that was in about 94 and here is the results of out labour of love....?

Daveshome.

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[Dane]

Nice one daveshome. I see you were posh eh, super low profiles and lowered suspension.

[daveshome]

Thanx Dane,

Glad you noticed all the modification.... ...but then I had a long time to perfect my Design....but I must point out that my sons made it, the child in the photo is my youngest son and this was during the construction.
I will dig one out of the finished Vehicle....?

Thanx Hooligan,

And yes you are right they were Trolleys, but the thread is on Tut Tuts and I have found that Tut Tut is a universal name, Tut Tuts and naughty, all I remember was that I was that naughty my Mam sounded like Skippy at times...?

I have heard of Blue Peter but I was not allowed to stay up late to watch it.

It didn't matter if you got the Clap! Cloughton St was just up the road.....! I dont know where it is but that's what I heard....honest......what!!!!!!

[Dave]

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Could you steer that one Dave? The wheels on mine were a bit smaller, but the front axis (whatever it's called) could pivot, thus being able to steer it with feet or a rope. My mum told me they were called 'tut tuts' (it's a Denton's Green thing) but my mates educated me that they were called 'Trollies'.

[Alan]

Tut tut was the generic protestant term whose boundaries far exceeded Dentons Green. We knew about trollies but our priest told us the word was a manifestation of popery and to shun it

[Dave]

You might be right. I've just remembered that my mates went to St Peter & St Pauls.

[Voll]

Alan, I thought you went to Cowley not West Park!
No one in Nutgrove would have called them tut tuts. I suppose you ate sweeties as well, did you. Trollie drivers to man, we were.

Edited by Voll, 14 November 2004 - 05:32 PM.

[Alan]

You're getting confused Voll, you've been in the Alberta permafrost too long. Tut tuts were the steerable ones, trollies had two fixed axles

[Dane]

You are wrong mate. Trollies were steerable as well.