Roy Blakey
master brummie
" HEY, LOOK AT THAT, IT'S A ROLLS ROYCE ".
Thinking about how we kids viewed cars and car makers. There wasn't too many cars to be seen at the time that I'm talking about.I recall that we kids would see a few cars of the likes of the Austin 7 ( that was a little one to us ) there was the Ford 8 HP and the Morris 8 ( middle size ) and a big one would be some thing like a Wolseley.
The cars that we did see would mainly only be used for ' essential purposes ' at that time ( wartime petrol rationing ).
I don't think that any of our kids group ever had a ride in a car until we became young men and women and that would be well after the war.
I do recall that there was one occassion when we saw a " Rolls Royce " on the car park of the " Kingstanding " pub.
Wow, did we think it was posh. Thinking about it now, I reckon it would have probably been some high officials transport or even some posh persons hire car for a wedding.
It impressed us anyway. We recognised a bit of quality.
Photo : Might have been this one.
Thinking about how we kids viewed cars and car makers. There wasn't too many cars to be seen at the time that I'm talking about.I recall that we kids would see a few cars of the likes of the Austin 7 ( that was a little one to us ) there was the Ford 8 HP and the Morris 8 ( middle size ) and a big one would be some thing like a Wolseley.
The cars that we did see would mainly only be used for ' essential purposes ' at that time ( wartime petrol rationing ).
I don't think that any of our kids group ever had a ride in a car until we became young men and women and that would be well after the war.
I do recall that there was one occassion when we saw a " Rolls Royce " on the car park of the " Kingstanding " pub.
Wow, did we think it was posh. Thinking about it now, I reckon it would have probably been some high officials transport or even some posh persons hire car for a wedding.
It impressed us anyway. We recognised a bit of quality.
Photo : Might have been this one.