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peter scott · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7118 Location: Edinburgh

This charming film was unavailable for some time but I see it's back and in high quality too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdQ65uNWbvk

The garage:
https://tinyurl.com/ybkhnhzt

Peter
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roverdriver · Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2017 9:11 am Post subject:

Thanks Peter. I first saw this delightful film in the early 1960's. It was at a club event and was on 16mm film. I have seen it very many times since, and again just now. It never fails to please.
Dane.
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winchman · Joined: 21 Feb 2014 Posts: 235 Location: Merseyside

Just cost me 27 minutes ! great film
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Rootes75 · Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2017 1:28 pm Post subject:

What a superb little film, the nostalgia, the cars and that Morris are lovely.

Never even heard of it before.
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Ray White · Joined: 02 Dec 2014 Posts: 6310 Location: Derby

This is the Alice Holt garage at Bucks Horn Oak, Farnham, as we see it these days. Sorry, Peter- I missed your link to the same.

Blackwell Cottage is on Cambridge Road West, Farnborough, Hants.

http://www.reelstreets.com/index.php/component/films/?task=view&id=2480&film_ref=home-made_car,_the

The garage has been replaced with a rather mundane house.

I last saw this film about 35 years ago at a 750 club meet. This is the same car in real life.

http://www.hvauctions.com/motor_Details.php?motor=55_04.jpg&pid=55&ref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.co.uk%2F

peter scott · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7118 Location: Edinburgh

Interesting to get more of the car's history. The Reel Streets photos are interesting too. Blackwell Cottage has clearly changed somewhat in the intervening years.

Some years ago I was in touch with Lytton Jarman who co-wrote two of the seminal books on Bullnose Morris cars.

http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/366749af-5a86-4b1a-a223-72b6c680661d

Lytton rescued a Bullnose from a scrap yard in very similar condition to that in the Home Made Car film and used it as his sole means of transport for much of his life.

Peter
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alastairq · Joined: 14 Oct 2016 Posts: 1952 Location: East Yorkshire

Indeed, a delightful film...thanks for posting it up.

Should I worry...if I have a similar tracking tool to the one used in the garage?

Gave it a new home after it was replaced by an all-singing', all dancin' item when my bus company employer changed their tyre contract.

25 years I've dragged it around various homes.... the bar is very long!

I also recall creating much amusement/amazement when my bus fitter chum, & myself, made use of the workshop's oxy gear, and a very big vice, plus a very long bar......to straighten [pretty much] a Model Y Ford front axle!!

Ray White · Joined: 02 Dec 2014 Posts: 6310 Location: Derby

One thing which gave me a giggle was the chap supposedly pushing the hand cart with the chassis frame on it from his home in Cambridge Road West on the edge of Farnborough airdrome to the garage in Bucks Horn Oak which is miles away! He would have had to push it to Farnham, through the town, (there was no by pass then) and then somehow struggle up Wrecclesham Hill and then on across the common land to Alice Holt garage. Then, having fixed the chassis, walked all the way back again! Shocked

What you might call artistic license. Rolling Eyes

peter scott · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7118 Location: Edinburgh

I got caught the other way around. I didn't know about the Reel Streets site and having located the garage looked around the area attempting to find the house address. Needless to say I failed.

Peter Wink

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