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A German Ruby - Tony Griffiths - 01-02-2022
Helmut has just posted this on Facebook. A Willys Overland Crossley
RE: A German Ruby - Malcolm Parker - 01-02-2022
The driver looks a bit Butch! The wheels look to be 19" script centre type?
RE: A German Ruby - Tony Griffiths - 01-02-2022
(01-02-2022, 12:30 PM)Malcolm Parker Wrote: The driver looks a bit Butch! The wheels look to be 19" script centre type?One wonders if they bought a job lot of old stock from Austin (the wheels, that is) - or might they be the owner's retrofit?
RE: A German Ruby - Mike Costigan - 01-02-2022
Can anyone date the clothing; it looks like a 1950s photo to me, so the 19" wheels, missing starting handle and twin wipers may not be a clue to originality.
RE: A German Ruby - Tony Griffiths - 01-02-2022
(01-02-2022, 12:57 PM)Mike Costigan Wrote: Can anyone date the clothing; it looks like a 1950s photo to me, so the 19" wheels, missing starting handle and twin wipers may not be a clue to originality.
Anne says that it could indeed have been taken in the late 1940s to the early 1950s; the dress looks to be the sort that her mother was sewing from Butterick patterns at the time.
RE: A German Ruby - Chris Garner - 01-02-2022
Bobby Socks were very popular in the '50s and I did wonder whether the area to the left in the photo was a bomb site.
RE: A German Ruby - Duncan Grimmond - 01-02-2022
Eeh, them were the days, bobby socks and bomb-sites!
RE: A German Ruby - Bob Culver - 01-02-2022
Very different form the anorexic souls in the adverts. I was a neat fit in the bucket seats at 11 stone and 6 foot.