Posted by Tom Napier on November 25, 2013 at 05:15:11 user Didymus.
In Reply to: Re: Ransomes' wealth posted by Peter Roche on November 24, 2013 at 20:53:11:
Here's a data point. In 1967, every young man's dream sports car, the MGB-GT, retailed for a tad over a thousand pounds. (Back then that's about what I had to live on for a year.) An equivalent car today would cost you about 25,000 pounds.