25-02-2020, 02:34 PM
(This post was last modified: 25-02-2020, 02:37 PM by Gordon Puzey.)
Back in the early 60s I always wanted a Chummy but they were £75 and a Ruby was only £25 so it had to be a Ruby. I eventually got round to buying what I thought was a nice original 1928 Chummy in 2005. A few years later an old lady was in her local grocers in Ironbridge and spotted a chap wearing an Austin hat. She asked him if there was any way of finding out if her old Austin 7 still existed. It turned out she was talking to a local enthusiast who promptly checked the register and found her old Chummy registered with the A7OC. A few days later I had a call from our club secretary giving me the ladies details to contact her.
The outcome being I took the Chummy up to Ironbridge to take the lady out for a drive. Whilst having afternoon tea she produced her wedding photographs from 1952 with the Chummy as her wedding car. These were followed by photographs prior to the wedding of her boy friend removing a Mulliner Fabric Saloon body and replacing it with a Chummy body from the local scrap yard. These photographs can be seen in the Gallery. So my nice 'original' beloved Chummy was not a Chummy at all but an ex Mulliner. The lady called Betsy gave me all of her photographs which I now treasure along with my non Chummy which I love all the more for having that history.
The outcome being I took the Chummy up to Ironbridge to take the lady out for a drive. Whilst having afternoon tea she produced her wedding photographs from 1952 with the Chummy as her wedding car. These were followed by photographs prior to the wedding of her boy friend removing a Mulliner Fabric Saloon body and replacing it with a Chummy body from the local scrap yard. These photographs can be seen in the Gallery. So my nice 'original' beloved Chummy was not a Chummy at all but an ex Mulliner. The lady called Betsy gave me all of her photographs which I now treasure along with my non Chummy which I love all the more for having that history.