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A German Ruby
Tony Griffiths Offline
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Car type: 1929 Chummy, 1930 Chummy, 1930 Ulster Replica, 1934 Ruby
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01-02-2022, 12:17 PM
Helmut has just posted this on Facebook. A Willys Overland Crossley


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01-02-2022, 12:30 PM (This post was last modified: 01-02-2022, 12:31 PM by Malcolm Parker.)
The driver looks a bit Butch!  The wheels look to be 19" script centre type?
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01-02-2022, 12:54 PM (This post was last modified: 01-02-2022, 01:07 PM by Tony Griffiths.)
(01-02-2022, 12:30 PM)Malcolm Parker Wrote: The driver looks a bit Butch!  The wheels look to be 19" script centre type?
 One wonders if they bought a job lot of old stock from Austin (the wheels, that is) - or might they be the owner's retrofit?
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01-02-2022, 12:57 PM
Can anyone date the clothing; it looks like a 1950s photo to me, so the 19" wheels, missing starting handle and twin wipers may not be a clue to originality.
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01-02-2022, 01:51 PM (This post was last modified: 01-02-2022, 01:52 PM by Tony Griffiths.)
(01-02-2022, 12:57 PM)Mike Costigan Wrote: Can anyone date the clothing; it looks like a 1950s photo to me, so the 19" wheels, missing starting handle and twin wipers may not be a clue to originality.

Anne says that it could indeed have been taken in the late 1940s to the early 1950s; the dress looks to be the sort that her mother was sewing from Butterick patterns at the time.
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01-02-2022, 02:35 PM
Bobby Socks were very popular in the '50s and I did wonder whether the area to the left in the photo was a bomb site.
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01-02-2022, 06:02 PM
Eeh, them were the days, bobby socks and bomb-sites!
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01-02-2022, 11:30 PM (This post was last modified: 01-02-2022, 11:32 PM by Bob Culver.)
Very different form the anorexic souls in the adverts. I was a neat fit in the bucket seats at 11 stone and 6 foot.
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