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#843 The cars standing in front of this wall are what “Motor Sport”, which was delivered every month to home, would have described as “grey porridge”. If anyone really wants a breakdown, please advise, or perhaps drive a car like these! Given the choice, the Mini on the very right looks about...

That looks like the interior of Olympia. Done a few shows there, but not in flares and platforms! I have no stats to prove this, but I think the NEC did Earl’s Court and Olympia no favours at all. It got up the noses of a few Londoners, which is always good!

#783 Presumably a combination of the two products mentioned in the adverts would result in a gigantic shandy!

#5863 A Vauxhall from just after WW2 follows a 1954-56 MG Magnette, designed by Gerald Palmer. Nice! The Vauxhall was a pre war design, and although still being built until about 1948, it looks a bit... well, old!

On the crate: - Belliss and Morcom Ltd ENGINEERS BIRMINGHAM ENGLAND. Those last three words say a book full!

Returning to #5806 The two buses are BMMO D5s, the last type they made with open rear entrances. Climbing the hill the light coloured car is an A40 Somerset, behind a 1937 Austin Cambridge Ten, and the shiny job is no less than an Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire immediately behind a Singer SM1500...

I can do better than a still photo! https://www.britishpathe.com/video/mobile-operating-theatre If only he’d worn a seatbelt!

http://www.theashdownclassicweddingcarcollection.co.uk/1957-vauxhall-cresta.php

#5806 All the usual Austin Ford and Morris suspects, I will have a closer look later, if that’s okay. The ambulance is, I think, slightly distorted by the viewing angle, but is an Austin A125 Sheerline chassis from the late 40s/early 50s. Just look at the size of those headlights! Lucas P100s...

#742 1937/8 Morris Eight Series 2, pierced steel wheels, not wires as on earlier cars. 1953+ Vauxhall, Velox I think. Cresta would’ve had spats over the back wheels, Wyvern was plainer.

Whilst I cannot help in answer to your question about Harry, I can draw attention to a quite rare car in the picture, if that is in order. EYP, the convertible nearest the camera is a July 1938 Ford Ten tourer, type 7W. Only about 1600 were built, compared with over 20,000 of the saloon...

Does anybody remember the builder’s merchant, or builder’s yard in the Uplands Smethwick, that had the row of chimney pots on its front wall? Better still, a picture?

Well done both! Steve, any pictures of Smerrick?

#615. Thanks, I did think about a cycle track but it looked too wide and well maintained.

#602 If the Wimbush van is driving along the roadway, can we assume that the carriageway to the left was once reserved for a tram track? #604 Wanna buy a Cambridge? 1 careful owner then 10 careless ones.

Quite likely money changed hands, stranger things have happened.

Birmingham car registration letters. (Admins, you might want to move this elsewhere, please feel free so to do.) The first letter is just an index. OF 1 to OF 9999 was followed by AOF 1 to AOF 999, then BOF 1 etc. The Birmingham identifiers were: - O, OA, OB, OC, OE, OF, OG, OH, OJ, OK, OL...

#577 A Wolseley 1500 Mk3 or maybe a Riley 1.5, and a Humber Pullman from the 1950s. Not quite any. OD was Devon, OI was Belfast, OO was Essex, OR was Southampton, OS was Wigtown, OT OU OW So’ton, OY Croydon, OZ Belfast. Otherwise O anything else was Brum, as also was O alone, and VP. OQ was...

Something like this: - https://ritholtz.com/2019/12/1972-ferrari-dino-246-gt/ Note the cars both have “JOF” plates with desirable numbers. Same owner?

Lancia Fulvia Coupé and Ferrari Dino, I think. Both on L plates 1972/3. Morris 1100, the Austin had the wavy grille, it appears to be rusting in all the usual places.