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[macoran]

C.A.V. logo ? is here Bjorn
http://images.google...ttp...l=nl&sa=N

[Bjorn Kjer]

Thanks for the link Marc , I am finding other logoes too !

[Bjorn Kjer]

Will searching the net I found that its not LAZUR petrol , but AZUR ! Sorry!

[Bjorn Kjer]

In the book The Racing Fifteen-Hundreds by David Venables , p.145 top showing the ERA E type
outside an ERA shed (or works) You can also see a small part of a transporter , supposed by me to be ERAs!
On the truck side is INDIA TYRES to be seen : Anyone who can tell me more on those ??

[GeoffE]

I've no idea which would be the correct thread for this vehicle, so it's going here

http://www.lvvs.org.uk/ahe163.htm

[Bjorn Kjer]

Hello fellow contributors, if you have found some pictures not knowing which thread to use ,this could be the one you have been looking for ?

[don hodgdon]

Early '50s, Santa Barbara.

[Bjorn Kjer]

Thanks Don .

[Bjorn Kjer]

Anyone who has picture or infos or links to the Autotanker BP ? An 8 wheeler from 1960/61. It was at the Belgian GP in 61 .

Edit : 2 splendid pictures has just been posted (24) on the thread : Commercial vehicles nostalgia

[Bjorn Kjer]

This thread is not yet dead ..............

[Leigh Trevail]

A pic of Dave Rodgman in the Sadler MkI. Dave bought this car and raced it in the original condition until he wrote it off. One of his buddies said that the car was too short to handle properly so the car was rebuilt and lengthened and given an aluminum body and Corvette power. Dave thinks that he sold it to a fellow named Dampier but has no idea where it ended up.

I have taken the liberty to lift this picture posted by Daniel 49 from the Sadler Sports Cars thread, I trust that I will not cause any offence. Although out of focus the Austin /Morris J2 Lucas van looks interesting, although somehow I don't think that it was taken in Blighty!

[Daniel49]

I have taken the liberty to lift this picture posted by Daniel 49 from the Sadler Sports Cars thread, I trust that I will not cause any offence. Although out of focus the Austin /Morris J2 Lucas van looks interesting, although somehow I don't think that it was taken in Blighty!

Dave says that this picture was taken at Harewood Acres, 1962ish, maybe!

[Daniel49]

This may not be a sponsors vehicle, no one can remember but it looks cool!

Harewood Acres (probably) 1962.

[EDWARD FITZGERALD]

This may not be a sponsors vehicle, no one can remember but it looks cool!

Harewood Acres (probably) 1962.

Amazing, I have seen a photo of this mini in a magazine article years ago , and now a colour photo.

[Leigh Trevail]

Thank you Daniel thats another interesting photo. I am surprised to see a two stroke D.K.W. in the picture. although I did see one in the car park on the Altermont Speedway / Rolling Stones documentary on the telly. Getting back to the J2 van, would there have been many of these in Canada?

[Daniel49]

I do not know, I will ask the old-timers if they have any info.

[Leigh Trevail]

I have just received Oxford Diecasts 1-43 scale Austin K3 van in Mann Egerton’s livery. In 1951 this Norwich company sponsored the Mann Egerton Trophy, first at Fersfield and then later at Snetterton, so it is feasible that this van (or one like it) would have been present at the races. Whether it was or not is immaterial, it’s a nice idea and a nice model.

www.oxforddiecast.co.uk/AK005%20Austin%20Service%20Mann%20Egerton.htm

[Bjorn Kjer]

Was Henley tires used in British racing in the 50's ?

[Bjorn Kjer]

Funny but this thread is not on my list ?

Question in the early 50 at Goodwood (elsewhere too?) was a Bedfor O tractor with semitrailer called The Friary Mobile Bar. Anyone knows about it ?

[Leigh Trevail]

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This morning I had the pleasure of meeting Reg Bradley who ran Sideways Garage in Walsham le Willows, Suffolk and provided recovery at Snetterton. Reg moved to Suffolk in August 1973 having worked for Ford in the development department. Originally he used a red/white Austin Gipsy breakdown; then he purchased this 1952 Morris MRA 1 with a 4.2 litre 6 cylinder motor from a sale in Devon.

The Morris also found fame on the small screen when it appeared in Lovejoy, it was seen towing the antique dealers Volvo estate. I seem to remember that this was the very first episode; but I may be wrong. Unbelievably when Reg retired he could not find anybody interested in the truck and ended up giving it away!