An Article from the MASCOT, July - August 2008

Forgotten Forecourts - from the Mail on Sunday - sent in by Derrick Bedwell

 With pictures of bland (see one and you’ve pretty well seen them all) garage forecourts filling the news bulletins about the tanker driver’s strike, the Mail on Sunday of 15 June printed a collage of 21 forecourts from 1929 to the 1960s, including a ‘Chinese’ garage in Beckenham designed to look like a pagoda and staffed by attendants in Oriental silk robes, one with pumps with their own thatched roofs, and this novelty.
There was also this 1934 Singer Sports Saloon being

refuelled by an unsmiling attendant on what looks like a rather uninspiring (bland?) forecourt.   

I have checked the DVLA records and it would appear that neither AMX 880 nor TG 7606 have survived.                                                                                                        Derrick.

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