Swan Motors sell a Bedford CA Dormobile.
This old sheet of paper turned up in a box of old documents at an antiques centre recently. Swan Motors, of Coventry Road, Yardley in Birmingham originally raised this invoice/receipt in 1961. It documents the sale of a Bedford CA Dormobile (camper van) to a Mr Stanley, of Faulkner's Farm Drive in Erdington.
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If I'm reading the Bedford's registration correctly - UOG 951- then it was Birmingham-registered, from a series introduced in November of 1956. This would make it a Mk1 Bedford CA Dormobile, with the distinctive circular "porthole" window, as seen on the example shown below - seen at a show in Malvern a few years ago.
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Swan Motors were sales agents for Austin, Standard and Triumph vehicles at the time but clearly could supply a wide variety of vehicles from other marques, as this item of paperwork illustrates. It was an AA-appointed garage, and also part of the M.A.A. (Motor Agents' Association). A company called SAS Autos continues to trade from Coventry Road and is, I believe, Swan Motors under a newer name and, given the years that have passed, different ownership.
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More items of paperwork, such as garage invoices, blotters, sales leaflets and more in the Motoring Collectables section of Old Classic Car.
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