Motorbikes, Cars and Vans
MOTORBIKES
The photos below are of WWI Military Despatch Riders outside the Wesleyan Chapel, East Back, opposite the East Back Engineering Works of J & A Stephens. They are reproduced by permission of Peter Hurlow-Jones, whose Aunt rode such a bike.
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Listen to Peter telling the story. |
SOME OLD CAR STORIES
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The photograph above belongs to Mr Tony Thomas - it belonged to his father and was taken at the time of WWI. I have since been informed that it was a Model T Ford. |
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Again, Tony Thomas' father's car, a military vehicle, during the same period. |
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Miss Joyce Colley remembers the first family car - a Humberette. It belonged to her brother but unfortunately no photographs exist. It looked like the above photograph. And below are the other two vehicles mentioned in her story - a Clyno and a Trojan |
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Miss Colley also recognised the car parked in front of the bus in the picture below as one owned by her father. There is a story attached - she tells me it is still in the family. |
And here it is - a recent photograph!
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Just 17 and passed the driving test in this Standard Companion. Linda Asman tells the story. |
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And here is another story about a very special vehicle - a seventies story about the Red Cross Ambulance which performed an unusual service. Vera John tells the story. |
AND NOW FOR A GALLERY OF VINTAGE CARS
