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Top photo, Bob. Copse corner, Summer, Matthew Paul/ Rob wells in the Morgan. Irvine Laidlaw in the Porsche 904/6? An Ice Cream van is right behind you. Andrew P

Well done Thompsons. Already practicing, I see.
XX Andrew and Heather

Thank you Richard and Andy. Super photos.
Andrew P

My word, Bob, you did travel far and wide in your quest for two-wheeled supremacy. It says 'Bull on a bike', in Vietnam of all places. Your fame spreads!

Andrew P

Here it is Jack,

And that's what I meant to do in the first place.
A Happy Christmas to you all.

Andrew P

Consider it deleted- didn't work!
A very Happy Christmas to you all.

Andrew P

Dear John, The more information I find, the more there is to find! Ecurie Chiltern was owned by a paper magnate called David Dixon and he was involved in a great deal of international competition. As many of his cars were MGs he had them prepared at Abingdon. One of the cars he owned was the Healey ...

Indeed, Bob. He'd started off in 1934 from Bolton, going via London to Lands End, then from London to Edinburgh via Wrynose and Hardknott passes, and Devil's Beef Tub. He managed Exeter Pin Hill in 1936, together with Jenkins Chapel, Pepperdon, and Hangman's Hill on his way from Brighton to Beer. Co...

Dear Jim, The photo is of my father on the Exeter Trial 1st/2nd Jan 1937 near the top of Fingle Bridge.

And finally, it would seem! With many thanks to Roger Bonsall, Martyn Webb at Malvern, Mike Duncan, but mostly Jake Alderson, from whose e-mails I copy below. Dear Andrew, It is the same John McKechnie and he was the local Morgan agent for Cheltenham, trading as Cedar Motor House. Mike Duncan, who i...

Hello Mark,
They will have been taken at Cedar Motor House, Bath Road, Cheltenham. I suspect it will have been the winter of '63, as that was the worst winter for a while. This is exactly where I used to go for coffee instead of flat-footing after malcontents.

Andrew

With regards,

Andrew

Hello Roger and Andy, Martyn at Malvern has kindly sent two photos in the archives of John's rallying 4/4. I suspect these were taken in 1963, before I had met John or even moved South. I was in the Cotswolds at the time, however, stuck in a village cut off from the outer world as a result of the sn...