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[peter scott]

After my father wrote off the A40 Devon woody his employer gave him a brand new Hillman Husky. Unfortunately it got crumpled too but lived to run another day, unlike the A40 which was reduced to half its size by the impact and was well beyond any chance of repair.

From these photos I think my father was the innocent party in the Husky crash.

He's the man in the first photo.

Peter

[Rick]

Hi Peter

ooooo fantastic photos, would it be ok to show those on the old-photos bit of the main site sometime?? fascinating to see the modified Devon

Rick
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[peter scott]

Hi Rick,

Yes, of course. Here's another view. Whilst somewhat truncated it does show a little more of its construction. I'm the smallest child in the photo.

Peter

[Rick]

fantastic pics did your dad build the Devon (sorry if you've already said!!), or did he buy it already converted?

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[peter scott]

Hi Rick,

No, it didn't belong to him. It was bought by his employer. I believe they bought it new, or nearly new, as a pick-up and employed a professional coachbuilder to convert it. I'm a bit wooly on the reason for this. It may have been that the saving in purchase tax of buying a commercial vehicle out-weighed the cost of converting it to a woody or the reason may have been something to do
with the availability of new cars for the home market. It had a fairly basic folding bench seat in the rear that gave a flat deck in the back when folded
down.

I can't see an aerial in the photos although there is one on the Husky but it was my impression that my father had a radio in the A40 and that it survived the crash and was transfered to the Husky. The radio was an Ekco identical to the one on the bottom of your pile behind the oil can.

Peter

[Job-Rated]

Looks like the 100E was definitely on the wrong side of the road to me...
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[peter scott]

I think he had been overtaking rather near to the bend and didn't expect a Hillman Husky. (No one expects a Hillman Husky. Oh no, that was the Spanish Inquisition )

Peter

[Old-Nail]

Peter, you've certainly given us a Christmas present with these photo's they are wonderful glimpses into the past - and in colour too!

I often wonder how many of similar such gems are hidden away, or forgotten in peoples drawers (ooh-er Mrs) when they need to be shown!

[peter scott]

Thanks Old Nail. Coming fresh into this forum it's really nice to find so many like minded folk. My father was quite a keen photographer and left me a good legacy both still and cine film. Lots of it is not motoring related but there are probably one two other bits and pieces that you might find interesting.

One section of colour cine that comes to mind comprises various sequences to do with crossing the Forth. The earlier parts date from the late '50s and show cars boarding the ferries at South Queensferry, then there is some footage of rail maintenance work on the Forth Rail Bridge from about the same time.
This is followed by shots taken of the Forth Road Bridge under construction
in the early '60s.

I did transfer his cine stuff onto VHS some years back, but the quality doesn't do justice to the original and now his projector needs attention so I'm not able to put it into DV directly.

I'll do a transfer from the VHS to DV and stick it on YouTube sometime soon.

Happy Christmas to all,

Peter

[MrWhite]

Yes please I would love to see that. All my family came form the Edinburgh area so I am sure I would recognise some places.
My earliest recollection of cars was my Dad's 1968 Austin Cambridge estate NUS 527F (Farina style), gery with a white stripe, not very small I am afraid. It was a company car and previous to that he had a Cambridge saloon. There are pictures somewhere of me with that car, must be about 3 or 4 but I don't actually remember it, my memories start with NUS 527F .

[peter scott]

Gosh Mr White! You are replying to a post from 10 years ago.

Anyway, sorry about the poor quality transfer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQz8Hnu33jk&t=171s

Peter
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[Penguin45]

That was a bit of a jolt, Peter. All sorts of memories came flooding back.

My grandparents, then parents owned the Gordon Hotel (7/9 Royal Circus, Edinburgh EH3 6TL 031 225 3000 (See what happens? )). Two doors down lived Uncle Gim, who was Staney Gimson and later the Sheriff Principal of the Highlands and Islands. He was a confirmed batchelor, but would take my sister and I out to South Queensbury on a Sunday afternoon in his pre-war Alvis convertible for ice cream and to see the bridge being built. I was perhaps 4? Some very hapy memories there, thank you.

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[MrWhite]

[peter scott]

After the rail bridge stuff there are three youngsters in front of the road bridge approach piers the one in the middle is my big sister and the one on the left a friend of her's whose father had some responsible position in the construction. I was the boy on the right. I also appear a few years later in the next sequence and up the tower.

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[Ashley]

Lovely photos Peter.