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[Vitesse2]

As some of you know, I volunteer as an eBay seller for a homelessness charity. One of my sales over the weekend was a 1961 Bristol Rovers FC match programme. As I was slipping it into an envelope, I spotted the back cover:

 

 

So here's a bit of 'Orrice Gould, Then and Now!

 

176 Kellaway Avenue is on the corner of Kellaway Avenue and Longmead Avenue. Today it's part of the triple frontage of a building supplies company called Kellaways. 'Orrice's garage would have been the now blanked off frontage on the right. As you can see, there's a very wide pavement both in front of and alongside the building, which must have been handy for displaying some of those '60 popular models' to passing punters.

 

 

Here's the side view of the building from Longmead Avenue. I wonder if this more modern-looking structure was actually erected on an Arthur Daley-esque car lot?

 

 

[Doug Nye]

Gould ad - "Specialists in 12-seaters"...   ?????

 

By the by, I always think of Historic racer Julian Bronson - beefy, friendly and a good bloke - as being Bristol's natural heir to 'Orazio Gold'.  Probably a quicker driver, too...

 

DCN

Edited by Doug Nye, 27 October 2019 - 22:46.

[Vitesse2]

Gould ad - "Specialists in 12-seaters"...   ?????

 

DCN

Maybe the old Purchase Tax dodge of converting older tax-free vans into passenger vehicles? IIRC you could do this once the vehicle was more than two years old without having to pay PT on the resulting conversion which was still technically a commercial vehicle.

 

Or perhaps military surplus? National Service was coming to an end at the time that ad was published, so the forces were probably looking to get rid of some. Probably well-maintained, even if a bit old.

[BRG]

Was everybody in the Bristol area called Horace in those days?

 

 "Horace Batchelor, Department One, Keynsham, spelt K-E-Y-N-S-H-A-M, Keynsham, Bristol"

[Tim Murray]

There was also Horace Craddy, very well known between the wars in Bristol. He was a virtuoso on the banjo, guitar and other stringed instruments and played with many bands and orchestras:

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