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Hello from Dorset...... Riley RMA
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 11:18 pm    Post subject: Hello from Dorset...... Riley RMA Reply with quote

Great to be here !
Heres my newly acquired 1951 Riley RMA.....
Hope you like it.
Best wishes,
Mark.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 11:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Looks beautiful. Have always liked the lines of that model. Now you can live the life of Riley! (Or is that just an expression limited to Oz?)
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 12:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

welcome to the forum Mark, the Riley looks fab!

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PostPosted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 12:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Aha! An Edinburgh car. Looks in good shape.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 12:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Welcome Mark, lovely Riley you've got there Very Happy
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 2:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

peter scott wrote:
Aha! An Edinburgh car. Looks in good shape.
Welcome to the forum.

Peter


You are quite correct Peter.
She was imported into the country and Edinburgh registered in 1960 after coming from Malaya on the RFA Reliant. She was purchased new in Perak Ipoh in 1951 of the Taiping Foundry by a Mr Kok siew Leong then sold to Mr. Hugh Philip Chapman with an address of RASC Barrack Office G.P.O Taiping in 1958 who then brought the car back with him and owned it until at least 1965 (there the trail goes cold).....
I'm trying to find out more about Mr Chapman, who he was and why he was in Malaya for so long after the trouble had ended (1953 I think)...

I've heard that the Riley RM Club have some further 'interesting' history on this car but I will have to wait to find out what that is as I've just applied for membership.

Mark.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 3:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi Mark,

I have a few Edinburgh street directories. I looked in the 1968/69 and also in the 1957/58 directories but of the few Chapmans listed none correspond with his fore names.

The old telephone directories are now available on line although you need to pay to access details, but you might have more success there.

Peter

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=BT&rank=1&new=1&so=3&MSAV=0&msT=1&gss=ms_db&gsfn=Hugh+Philip&gsln=Chapman&dbOnly=_F00039E0|_F00039E0_x&_81000000=1960&_82004040-gpid=91205&_82004040__ftp=Edinburgh%2C+Scotland%2C+United+Kingdom&rqf=and__us_82004043(Country%2FCounty)_or_gsln(Last+Name)__us_80004000(Last+Name)
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 4:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks Peter.... I'm going to wait to see what news the Riley Club have...
I have his address as 220 Albert Avenue Hull in Nov 1960, the car leaving Singapore in July 1960 bound for Rosyth then various dates and Edinburgh addresses for him in the RF60 between '61 and '65.....
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 6:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi

Welcome along, and what a fine Riley!

Cheers

Dave (Riley) hehe
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