Driveway Turntables

Experienced the turntable “experience “ on an Isle of Wight ferry about 30 to 40 years ago.
 
Riverbankannie said:
Someone near us had one in their front garden. The house is typically narrow terraced house near what would have been the village centre. Narrow pavement and narrow road outside but very busy as near the crossroads of that one time village - now a suburb. This was a long time ago but the turntable only lasted anout 5 years and there is no sign of it now.
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Was that the house in Downend Annie? I remember it well! I thought given the narrow garden, and the road they would have to reverse in or out of, it was a brilliant idea!
 
It could be very useful when you have a small drive off a main road.

My Dad had a house which had a small drive which you would be unlikely to be able to turn round in - without hundreds of 3 point turns. He had to reverse on as too dangerous to reverse back onto a main road but pulling up just passed the drive to reverse back into the drive also felt really scary with the speed of some of the cars coming up from behind.

If I lived there now I would seriously look into a turntable

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I've seen one in London on an extremely busy road in London (double red lines). The driveway space in front of the house is just about big enough to take a car. Looks like a reasonable solution in the circumstances.
 
pappajohn said:
If that was the case they would have had a turning area in the building plans.
Plus... I have NEVER heard of planning only approved if entry and exit from property is forwards.
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Ivory55 said:
I can assure you that both exist.
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pappajohn said:
I will believe it ONLY after seeing a planning application or any documentation insisting on it.
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They do exist as has been shown, I've watched quite a few property programmes over the years and every now and then the council insist on one otherwise no drive is allowed. Before you ask no I am NOT going to trawl the internet to find the progs!
 
One of the older guys I worked with started on the pumps at a garage in town. You drove into the garage yard on to a turntable to fill up then the pump attendant turned the cars round to drive out.
It must have a slow process one car at a time. He said the worst cars were the Daimlers from the undertakers. There were heavy for a teenager to push on his own. Not helped when one had a coffin in the back.
 
pappajohn said:
I will believe it ONLY after seeing a planning application or any documentation insisting on it.
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We were refused planning for a drive on the front of our house as the council insist it had to be drive on and drive off, (despite neighhours having an existing drives which you can’t do that) It’s 40mph limit A road. So we bought land to the rear and our drive is from a side road.
 
More new cars are fitted with cross traffic and blind spot monitors to help with reversing out of a parking space safely.

On a tangent does anyone remember using the Shoe Lane car park in London? (Now demolished)

"An eleven storey mechanical car park in operation in Shoe Lane, London which holds 279 cars. They are driven into one of ten bays are parked automatically by means of two lifts."​

It was very advanced technology in the 1960s. Excellent.
 
SpeedyDux said:
More new cars are fitted with cross traffic and blind spot monitors to help with reversing out of a parking space safely.

On a tangent does anyone remember using the Shoe Lane car park in London? (Now demolished)

"An eleven storey mechanical car park in operation in Shoe Lane, London which holds 279 cars. They are driven into one of ten bays are parked automatically by means of two lifts."​

It was very advanced technology in the 1960s. Excellent.
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sorry mate wasn't born then :rofl:

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Had a turntable in my bike shed for the Blackbird made life easier.
From memory I think it cost about £350 and made out of 3/8” steel and bearings worked well.
 
There was a turntable in a car auction at Rhuddlan up to about 20 years ago. If you drove on as far to the right as was possible and slammed on the brakes the momentum would turn the table around for you.
 
pappajohn said:
If that was the case they would have had a turning area in the building plans.
Plus... I have NEVER heard of planning only approved if entry and exit from property is forwards.
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It’s quite common these days for a turning area to be insisted on by planning when building new houses on an existing street (not so much on large new developments)

I have two plots at the moment and the planning includes a drive in and out forwards condition on both.

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Coincidentally, just got back from a walk and a house on main road into Chester had a turntable on the drive. (Gates are normally closed so never seen before) obviously works for them as I wouldn’t want to reverse onto that road. Probably not fit a Moho tho!
 
If you are limited for space and and have a nice toy why not I would have no reservation if your car is worth a few hundred thousand 15k on a turntable is a small price to pay in my opinion,
Horses for courses.🙂
 

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