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[Remspoor]

See my Baby Drive

[Andrew353w]

23 minutes ago, Remspoor said:

See my Baby Drive

Or perhaps 'I'm on the "move"...?'

[Richard_FM]

11 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

The Austin J40 built by disabled war veterans.  My Mum has a picture of my Dad & Aunt driving some on a track in a park.

[ETCHY]

7 hours ago, Richard_FM said:

The Austin J40 built by disabled war veterans.  My Mum has a picture of my Dad & Aunt driving some on a track in a park.

Disabled  ex Welsh miners i think it was.

Len Lord head of Austin set it up to give the men who could no longer work down the mine something to do.

Always thought it a decent thing for the head of a firm to have done.

 

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[martc]

20 hours ago, Momentary Lapse Of Reason said:

[Erebus]

33 minutes ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Is that Castle Bromwich presumably?

[busmansholiday]

On 21/08/2023 at 10:59, MiniMinorMk3 said:

I had one of those in the early 60's.

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[DSdriver]

Note that it says BRITISH MERCEDES BENZ!

 

[uk_senator]

7 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

I wanna see the next few frames..

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7 minutes ago, uk_senator said:

I wanna see the next few frames..

No motorcycles were harmed making this film!

 

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7 minutes ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

No motorcycles were harmed making this film!

 

Crikey.. That ended better than expected, both for the bikes and the bus! 😂

[Richard_FM]

16 hours ago, ETCHY said:

Disabled  ex Welsh miners i think it was.

Len Lord head of Austin set it up to give the men who could no longer work down the mine something to do.

Always thought it a decent thing for the head of a firm to have done.

 

OK thanks for clearing that up.

[Remspoor]

12 hours ago, DSdriver said:

Note that it says BRITISH MERCEDES BENZ!

 

It will be as it is RHD. Unless it was in one of the outpost of the British empire*

[Yoss]

On 8/14/2023 at 12:25 PM, uk_senator said:

(I worked here, twice)

That was taken at the start of the very first Club Triumph Round Britain Reliability Run in 1966. London to John O'Groats to Lands End and back to London in 48 hours. Leaves London on a Friday evening, then you have breakfast in John O'Groats on the Saturday morning and Lands End on Sunday morning before getting back for tea on Sunday evening.

The event still runs every two years barring the odd fuel crisis and pandemic.

The first run had only six cars but now regularly attracts over a hundred cars, all Triumphs of course (plus the odd Standard). I've done it five times since 1992, always with a 1300TC. I've not done it since 2016. Some people do every event but I don't feel the need to. Notwithstanding the fact the cars are all now 50 odd years old, so am I (my car is nine months younger than me) and it is quite a physically draining event.

Some pics from 2016. Sorry they are not black and white.

The start. Knebworth House.

 

John O'Groats.

 

Colourful pez station shot, Skiach services just north of Inverness.

 

Another pez station shot. Tebay.

 

Lands End.

 

And back at the finish.

 

The start and finish point was at Broadfields Garage for as long as it was a Triumph dealership. It then moved to a pub in Enfield but as the event grew to over a hundred cars something bigger was required, hence Knebworth.

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