I gave my late father a metal pipe holder one Father's day when I was about 7 or 8 years old. It sat proudly on the dashboard of his 1956 Ford Squire. Besides his pipe, or as my late Mother put it, his dummy, there was a fuse and that belonged to the radio. When he wanted to listen to the radio he put the fuse in and when he didn't he took it out as you had to pay I believe 5 shillings (25p) to have a radio licence which he did not have. If stopped by the police he could demonstrate that he did not have a working radio!
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