Cars | Yesterday Remembered

I RECALL my father telling me about an event regarding my maternal grandfather’s car. Probably in 1938, while driving, my grandfather was negotiating a slight hairpin bend in my home town of Dalton-in-Furness. As he did so he brushed against a child, knocking the little one over but not causing any injury. This upset my […]

Thirty year’s service

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Motoring Days of Long Ago

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In 1937 my parents moved to Swindon from Luton when there was a slump in the straw hat trade. My father had managed a Singer Sewing Machine shop in Luton, and all the ‘home-workers’ who had been buying sewing machines and electric motors on hire-purchase returned them when the slump came, father’s income depended on […]

A New Life in Swindon

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Motoring in the 1950s

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Motoring in the 1930s

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Whenever I look back all those years to my rosy courtship with my husband-to-be, I always think with nostalgia of our happy, not to say uneventful, travels in our old A35 van. We’d been going steady for only a few weeks when he suggested pooling our resources and looking round for a little banger. Before I’d […]

A ‘heapful’ of memories

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Dreaming of Dorset

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HOW CAN I FORGET?

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