Grandfather's car list
Discussion
Astacus said:
I Think 3904PO was an Isetta bubble car. Not listed at the DVLA
That makes perfect sense! I recall my grandmother telling me years ago before she died how my grandfather once bought her a bubble car as a novelty and how the entire front used to open up. She hated it and after a very short while the wiring caught light and it burned to a cinder - apparently not uncommon.
I swung by my parents' house at the weekend and grabbed these. There are many more which I will dig out. I particularly love the enormous calor gas canister in the picnic shot! That must be an earlier Jag as I'm pretty sure it is a Mk 1. However it is not CD 2222 or CFJ 288 from what I can see of the numberplates so the list might be missing a couple! The P4 in the background was my great uncle's. The second photo of the front of the Rover P4 (complete with dowager aunt) I would guess is UUF 808. With the chrome trim and approximate dates of the photo I think it is the top of the range 105 but perhaps any Rover fans could confirm. The registrations are not in chronological order as according to my mother, he sold the Rover and replaced it with the Jag as both my great uncle and grandfather had Rovers at the same time. The numberplate CD2222 was retained and transferred to my grandmother's new Morris Minor Traveller...
Bluetoo said:
To OP, what did your GD do for a living? Looks like a list from Gone in 60secs?
:-)
He left the Army as a Colonel / temp. Brigadier shortly after the war and was given the reins of a struggling but sizeable family owned builders' merchant in Brighton by my grandmother's uncle. He turned it around and eventually into a specialist glaziers. He was obsessed with new things and my mother recalls him never having cars for more than a year. Given the list only goes up to pre-63 (with a couple added on later), that would appear to be accurate! He died in 1983 by which time it was a Range Rover.:-)
My grandfather must have been a bit of a Pistonhead in his time.
Born 1892, died 1963, when I was 5.
What I know
He courted my Grandma in a Bat motorbike, travelling overnight from Leeds to Swansea.
He took the family on holiday to Austria in 1936 in an Austin 18 (?) My father aged 12 at the time remembers passing an incident in the road with a lot of German soldiers not letting them stop. It was a Nazi assassination
There was an V12 Atalanta tourer,just after the war (17 made). Priceless today
A Rover P3 tourer, with an electric hood Reg BJG 75 one of two in Leeds with consecutive registrations
Various Jaguars in the 50's, Rover P4 and finally a Humber Super Snipe which is the only one I remember
Born 1892, died 1963, when I was 5.
What I know
He courted my Grandma in a Bat motorbike, travelling overnight from Leeds to Swansea.
He took the family on holiday to Austria in 1936 in an Austin 18 (?) My father aged 12 at the time remembers passing an incident in the road with a lot of German soldiers not letting them stop. It was a Nazi assassination
There was an V12 Atalanta tourer,just after the war (17 made). Priceless today
A Rover P3 tourer, with an electric hood Reg BJG 75 one of two in Leeds with consecutive registrations
Various Jaguars in the 50's, Rover P4 and finally a Humber Super Snipe which is the only one I remember
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