The following text and image were found on the Northern Echo’s website where Ralph Davison tells of his very first car.
My first car was a 1931 Morris Minor with the registration VK 4243.
I was an 18-year-old apprentice motor mechanic at Minories in Chestnut Street in about 1953, and I bought this car from a workmate. It had an aluminium body, was two-tone blue and grey, had wooden floorboards and the petrol tank was in the car and you had to open the bonnet to fill it. A petrol tap was near your foot to turn it onto the reserve setting. It had spoked wheels and I fitted whitewall tyres and chrome hub caps onto the wheels. The prop shaft had canvas couplings. It was an eye-catching little car and I enjoyed driving it. (Ralph Davison)
