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Can anyone shed light on CBM 199, and it's current whereabouts? The car was owned and rallied by David Webb up until 1938, his grandson would e nterested to know. Pictures from the period may be availale.
Ta ever so,

Bob.

Correction, the gentleman was Frank Webb, not David, and I have scanned-in six period photos of the car in action.

Hopefuly this may jog a memory.

Bob

Hi Bob,
If you email me the images I will put them up for you on BHP.
Otherwise click on the tab below that says Attachments and it explains how to add an image to your post.
Mx

Mary, the photos have a copyright stamp, and might caue problems, as still possibly 'owned'.

You could use them and accompany the photos with an acknowledgement to the copyright holder.
You are clearly not using the photos for profit.

I searched DVLA records and there is no record of any road tax or MOT or SORN.

Doesn't mean it's not out there though - somewhere...?!

Cheers,

Mark

I thought you lot ( ) knew eveything about every Morgan ever made. Does no one rmember Frank Webb?

Hi Bob,

You could ask his namesake Martyn Webb.

As you probably know he is the archivist at the Morgan Motor Co.

I have got his contact details if you need them - just get in touch...

Or will see you at The Leathern Bottle at Lewknor on Saturday 7th February.

Cheers,

Mark

Thank you, Mark, the chap who is the grandson, actually came in to fix a freezer door for me, and notced my motorsport picures, and my Ruby Plaque (Thanks to all who signed), "My grandfather owned a Morgan", he said and quoted the Reg number instantly. He subsequently brought round the original photos of Fank in hs MG, and later Flat Rad, I have enhanced the pictures as best I can, and gave him a nice shiny A4 copy of the best one, he is going to send me datails of his grandad, which I will use to write an article for Miscellany, if Charles thinks it ineresting enough. Therefore it would be nice to learn more about the history of CBM 199, I understand that Frank owned it up to 1938, but not what happened to it, but a lot of cars were probably destroyed in the war. I will try and talk to Martyn Webb, who knows he might be related.

Life does not need to get boring at 88 years

Bob.

It's a small world in the Morgan world...!

Keep us all in the loop Bob. Will be very interested to hear what Martyn has to say.

Will we see you at The Leathern Bottle on 7th February?

Cheers,

Mark

By the way Bob I can see the local interest in the Morgan.

CBM is a Luton registration number issued by Bedfordshire CC in 1938.

Cheers,

Mark

Dear friends,

If this car went to a foreign country the registration number is no longer registered in the UK as a road going car. Because of that I asked several times, send me a photo of the car and let me know the (original) chassis number. With that in hand I can make an announcement in the MHR News column. The experience is that the car popped up in another country.

Best regards, Machiel Kalf.