Nico, you were not alone!I made everyone laugh as a kid I said we had a Ford Angela!
Love this thread ty. I watched "The Running Man" on talking pictures the other day. Never knew it was a 60's film.
I know we had a shooting brake once.Love this thread ty. I watched "The Running Man" on talking pictures the other day. Never knew it was a 60's film.
I had forgotten the term 'Shooting Brake' for an estate car.
Roy of Roy's Rolls (Cafe) fame......he has a 'Woody' in fact a morris traveller, lol. In Coronation StreetI realise why it might be called a Woody, but never heard the expression over here
Dad worked for Rolls Royce as did mum she also worked for all those companies mentioned except for Rover. All in Coventry. Lea Francis were very good employers she said but they all were. We had a Morris Traveller, a Morris Minor. Good King Wenclesas looked out in a mini Minor, bumped into a trolley bus landed up in China. With the Austin Sevrn he landed up in heaven. The Traveller had a grey tartan soft roof which leaked and plastic triangular uncleanable windows.Almost unopenable windows. We had a little red parking light with a wire out of the window.We had well they were all mum's a mini estate not sure of the name. Red with wood at the back. Why were they called shooting brakes anyway?I’ve just spotted thread #93, Page 5, Snow Hill Passenger entrance.
The car is a late forties/early fifties Lea Francis Fourteen (or slightly cheaper Twelve), quite a rarity as Lea Francis Cars struggled at that time and didn’t exactly break any sales records. Their factory was in Coventry and the cars were expensive, aimed as a sort of a cross between a Jaguar and a Rover. The big problem for these cars and similar types was that the purchase tax on more expensive models doubled from 33,33% to 66.67% when the list price passed £1,000. If you were buying a Royce or Bentley they were well over those figures, but for Lea F it was about the last straw.
Rover and Jag were in a bigger way of mass production and could scrape an introductory model under the price barrier iirc. Also Rover’s had a card up its sleeve with sales from the Land Rover, of course.