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DFE - Lincoln Borough Council 1948/9. 785 number suggests 1949, and the car is a Ford, probably an Anglia so a 933cc sidevalve engine and not very quick. £90 seems a bit on the dear side, my 1953 Popular cost £55, and was in better nick than that old dog. The two-tone was non standard making me...

The first Fulvia. I felt like a millionaire after the 1960 Beetle, but this car nearly finished me off, well, the car and one of Lord Lichfield’s oak trees.

Both my Lancias were 1960s Fulvias, they weren’t any worse for rust than any other car of the period, it was the Beta which fell apart so badly, about 72 or so, after the Fiat takeover. They (Fulvias) were very individual cars, with twin cam V4 engine and two twin choke carbs and the 1100 cc...

Sorry Bob, I know that one should never criticise the other bloke’s car, and must admit that the Atlantic was unmissable when you saw one coming the other way. The problem was that it just didn’t appeal to the market at which “LPL” aimed it. The average British bloke really wanted (but couldn’t...

I can’t really see the one in the back corner of the showroom, but we have a ragtop Austin A90 Atlantic in the front, and a Triumph saloon facing the camera. The Triumph was registered in the County Borough of Sheffield, in January 1951. At that date it will be a Renown Mk1, using the same...

I’ve been trying to ration myself on the number of these I do, but this one just popped into my head, and as it’s less than three minutes in length I thought maybe you’d forgive another visit into the ‘30s. Harry Roy, Minnie, and when she lost it!

Spot on! Song of course made famous by Fats Waller, but he didn’t have a Brummy milk truck.

Arf a mo’ Those of us who grew up in the 60s may recall Jack Jackson’s record programme that, iirc, came on after Saturday Club on the Light Prog. There was much more to JJ than that. He ran a pretty good band in the 30s, resident for several years at the Dorchester Hotel. If you’re wondering...

Maybe a Snipe...

https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/19288/lot/474/ The only Humber with a grille like that is the 12, which would fit the date, but the design of the boot looks wrong. There was a variant with a larger boot, called the Humber 12 Vogue, but again not quite right.

We lost our car at the Royal Show. It was a white Cavalier! Not only were there hundreds of others, but we were in the wrong field.

Thank you. In the early 1970s I had a Lancia Fulvia which needed an MoT so I booked it in, and left it with my dear old Dad to take while I went to work in his Austin 1800. Phone call at work, “your heap of Italian junk’s failed, but I have sorted it. It will go back for retest tomorrow.” The...

Considering that the 1938 car must have been at least a dozen years old and had seen out WW2 it is in excellent order, but that bald tyre must indicate either penury or shortages in supply.

I needed my books!

One expects to encounter lots of Austins in Brum, with “the Orstin” being just down the road. These two give the car spotter a bit of a problem though. Just enough of the post war car behind is concealed to make it hard to say whether this is an A40 Devon, or an A70 Hereford, but it is surely...

Well played, Sir!

Sorry about the time I have taken in responding to your question about front bumpers, but the wife, the greenhouse and the belated garden work caught up, and she who must be........ The front bumper may have been fitted by the owner, or requested from the factory knowing that he had a foreign...

After last week’s extravaganza from the pit orchestra of the Coventry Hippodrome, who seemed at times to be in danger of total collapse, although they never quite fell into the pit, this time an outfit with so many musicians that they could drown out each other’s clangers. Loius Levy and the...

ROA, 12/54 to 3/55 Birmingham commercial vehicle plate on a Hillman Husky estate. HOM, 11/47 to 2/48 Birmingham plate on a Humber Super Snipe. A Fordson (or Thames) 10cwt van shows us its back. There was a name change in the early 50s. These vans were in production from 1938 until 1956, a few...

Pete, I think you might be more likely to find a gramophone than an engine! Stan and Ollie must have been very good for the Ford sales figures, thinking of the quantity of Model Ts they destroyed in the films.