This internet-sourced image of Morris Minor Saloon (TF 6995) is of a very early January 1932 Lancashire registered car. It’s seen here somewhere in Spain, heavily laden and driven by a Michael Tippet. This is all that is known of the backstory to this fascinating photograph. Since this initial caption was written Joe Rayner has carried out some internet research and uncovered the following: “…
“… the Morris photograph which was taken during a camping holiday to Spain in mid/late1932. It (view this link Wilfred Franks Biography (wordpress.com) also includes details of the friendship that formed between Tippett/Franks and a biographer David Ayerst, who took the photograph in Spain. He had a Manchester connection and was the most likely one of the three to have owned the car, but it could also have been loaned to the 3 of them, as they had some remarkable connections. The director of the camp was Ruth Pennyman, and she had links with the Basque region during the Spanish Civil War, which might have fitted in with the anti-Fascist views of Franks, and possibly been part of the reason to visit Spain. The Spanish holiday appears to have been 1932, so the car was pretty new ! (looking at various ‘permissions’ I think that Caroline Ayerst might have been daughter of David).” More interesting info here too – From the Bauhaus to the ‘Bottom House’ at Boosbeck (northeastbylines.co.uk)
