Toby Sears purchased YD 4067, a 1932 Minor Saloon on eBay 18 months ago. Following an engine change, the car recently made its maiden voyage under Toby’s stewardship taking to the roads of The New Forest National Park in Hampshire, U.K.
Russel Hertzog owns a 1929 Midget with the chassis number of 2M/586 which was built in Oxford in August of that year and now sports a Double Twelve replica body. Within 12 months of leaving MG’s Oxford factory it had two U.K. registrations, WX 1571 (Autumn 29 W.R. Yorkshire) and OF 6766 (Spring 1930 Birmingham). How could this happen – Russel is investigating?
Dominic Ditchfield and his wife Anne live in the foothills of the French Alps. On 31st October last year, on a glorious autumn day, Anne took a sequence of photos of their 1934 Minor Two-seater set against some wonderful backdrops, of which this is but one. Another of Anne’s photos was voted into second place in the 2015 POTY competition.
Although winter is losing its grip in the northern hemisphere it’s not giving up its hold without a fight. Arthur Bell exercised his 1933 Minor Saloon (JJ 9069) in the Norfolk countryside this weekend with the mercury well down into single figures; the car’s masked off radiator ensuring that the fluids within the engine reached something like their normal operating temperatures during the course of his outing.
A pair of recently exported early thirties British mass produced cars are now part of a Singapore collection and on view to the general public. The Minor involved is a 1931 £100 Two-seater (SK2321C) although described as a 1929 Roadster. The Austin Seven is listed as a 1934 Ulster. Both cars also look to be recently restored, the Minor wearing a 2014 U.K. tax disc while the Seven carries a VSCC badge on its radiator.