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This is Viv Littlewood's 1933
9hp Sports Tourer, which was first registered
in Somerset on 15th July 1933. Viv tells us:
The car came into my possession in 1982 as a "Barn Find" in the village
of Fiskerton, Nr Lincoln, the owner being a Mr D Gibson. The car was completely
dismantled - just a jumble of parts in tea chests and tomato trays. Not too far
into the restoration I found that the 'kit of parts' was by no means complete.
Fortunately, that summer, I had been on holiday to the Isle of Man, where I had
found a wrecked 1934 '9' Coupe (ANX 740) in a bramble patch. The photographs I
took showed that the parts I required were there for the salvaging. The owner
agreed to let me have them and they were brought back to Yorkshire by other holiday
makers. Returning from holiday in the IOM the following year, I recovered all
remaining salvageable parts - engine, axles, gearbox etc, and four years later
the job was finished. I have since rebuilt two '9' LMs and am well into a third
- my supposed retirement project! |