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Ellis
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Nice.
Our neighbour had one of these for years. It was two tone grey over blue and was registered YUM 762.
He had bought it new in London just before moving to North Wales with his family to run a cafe two houses away from my then home.
It was covered and parked up for years after being "retired".
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roverdriver
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Location: 100 miles from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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I bought one for Fifty pounds (Aus) in 1968, specifically for our honeymoon tour from Melbourne to Canberra, Sydney and inland parts of New South Wales.
It behaved perfectly and handled sections of unsealed road with ease.
At the end of the tour, my wife and I were off to New Zealand for a couple of years, so sold the car to my sister-in-law. I never found out what she did with it.
If I wasn't into Rovers, I would not mind having one again.
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PAUL BEAUMONT
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Location: Barnsley S. Yorks
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| Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2014 1:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Ellis wrote: | Nice.
Our neighbour had one of these for years. It was two tone grey over blue and was registered YUM 762.
He had bought it new in London just before moving to North Wales with his family to run a cafe two houses away from my then home.
It was covered and parked up for years after being "retired". |
Curious - why would a new car in London be registered in Leeds???
Like you a neighbour of ours when I was a kid had one and one for spares that was eventually swapped for a Rover 90. I might have the dash from the scrapper somewhere still! |
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colwyn500
Joined: 21 Oct 2012
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Location: Nairn, Scotland
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| Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2014 1:48 pm Post subject: |
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| PAUL BEAUMONT wrote: | | Ellis wrote: | Nice.
Our neighbour had one of these for years. It was two tone grey over blue and was registered YUM 762.
He had bought it new in London just before moving to North Wales with his family to run a cafe two houses away from my then home.
It was covered and parked up for years after being "retired". |
Curious - why would a new car in London be registered in Leeds???
Like you a neighbour of ours when I was a kid had one and one for spares that was eventually swapped for a Rover 90. I might have the dash from the scrapper somewhere still! |
I believe Ellis may be mis-rembering slightly. From my memory, the prefix "UN" is from Wales? |
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Penman
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Hi
Apparently UW was a London reg so he might have mis-rememberd a W as M
UN was Exeter
http://www.kingkong.demon.co.uk/where/gb.htm
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Ellis
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Location: Betws y Coed, North Wales
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Gentlemen.
The registration number YUM 762 is correct. I should know because the Humber Hawk was parked only 20yards or so from my bedroom window and I saw it every day. More so when it was "retired" in 1966/67 and the owner bought one of the first FD Vauxhall Victors - FCC 727F which was in turn changed to a white Triumph 2000 Mk2 JCC 153J.
The gentleman who owned it was a Mr J.D. Nolan who wanted to leave the London "rat race" (his words) and he moved to North Wales and never returned to his roots in the East End. His wife, sister and children did every year but he had no desire to.
UN was one of (CA was the other) registrations for the old county of Denbighshire until the late 1980's when it was allocated to Devon.
The Humber Hawk was new when he bought it.
Edit.
YUM was a Leeds registration number allocated from 1957 on.
Mr Nolan and his family moved here in the early summer of that year but why the car had a Leeds number I don't know.
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