22-05-2021, 03:12 PM
This thread reminds me of my first Ruby bought in 1963 in Cambridge for £5 if I remember rightly. It was registered FWE468 on 29th December 1938, which was 6 years to the day after the 1932 RP which preceded it. It seemed like a standard de luxe Ruby spec with steel sunroof and drip rails rather than gutters. I understand that it was one of 3 Rubies used as a Hire car by Marshalls (the Austin Distributor in Cambridge) during the war; another was FWE444 but I cannot recollect the other. Those cars had the standard body shape and square fronted running boards.