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Help wanted I'm trying to find an Austin 7 RegOT 4745. It was owned back in the 60's/70's by Carey and Lambert in Southampton and was rebuilt by the apprentices. My father Terry Dowell helped rebuild it and used to take it to carnivals and it was used a wedding car on many occasions. Easter 1972 my dad and his work colleague drove little OT from lands end to John O'Groats. I spent many an hour when I was little looking though his "little OT" scrap book and reading the route that they took. The picture is a painting of the car that has pride of place at my parents. I would love to know what has happened to this car. It played a huge part of my early years. Unfortunately we lost dad in April and him doing the lands end to John O'Groats run is my favourite memory and of him xxx thank you for taking the time to read this xxx
I have checked the DVLA website and it's still about xxx
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Location: Oakley, Hants, UK
Car type: 1929 AD Tourer, 1930 Rosengart LR2, Rosengart LR4 Van 1938 APE Tourer (Opal)
02-09-2017, 07:18 AM
(This post was last modified: 02-09-2017, 07:23 AM by Derek Sheldon.)
(02-09-2017, 12:33 AM)Yes the car appears on my car check but not so on the Austin seven clubs association surviving cars list.a contributor of this forum may know of its whereabouts.
Wrote: Help wanted I'm trying to find an Austin 7 RegOT 4745. It was owned back in the 60's/70's by Carey and Lambert in Southampton and was rebuilt by the apprentices. My father Terry Dowell helped rebuild it and used to take it to carnivals and it was used a wedding car on many occasions. Easter 1972 my dad and his work colleague drove little OT from lands end to John O'Groats. I spent many an hour when I was little looking though his "little OT" scrap book and reading the route that they took. The picture is a painting of the car that has pride of place at my parents. I would love to know what has happened to this car. It played a huge part of my early years. Unfortunately we lost dad in April and him doing the lands end to John O'Groats run is my favourite memory and of him xxx thank you for taking the time to read this xxx
I have checked the DVLA website and it's still about xxx
It is currently street legal
I am always interested in any information about Rosengart details or current owners.
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Location: Melton Mowbray.
The car in question is not on the PWA7C Register and never appears to have been. Neither is it on the A7CA Register
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Car type: 1934 Austin 7 AVH Van (in bits & incomplete!), 1936 Morris 8 Series I Tourer
04-09-2017, 05:47 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-09-2017, 06:03 PM by Jeff Taylor.)
Hi Lynnetta,
The stickers are as I described them in my earlier post, the one on the left is definitely without question the logo of the V.S.C.C. and the one on the right is the logo of The Pre-War Austin Seven Club - though why the owner should want to display the club sticker if the car has never been within the membership of the PWA7C as Chris Garner confirms is something you'd have to ask the owner. He could of course have been a PWA7C member himself but for whatever reason didn't declare ownership of that particular car. I suspect he may be a member of the V.S.C.C. I think I'm right in saying that the V.S.C.C. only keep a record of club members names, not of the actual cars they own - so the V.S.C.C. membership secretary probably has no means of linking that car and that registration to one of their members.
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I did some engine work on a light grey 1927/8 Chummy about 8 years ago - it belonged to the late Ian Peak but I cannot remember the registration number. It is the only grey Chummy (of that year/type) I have seen - suited it.
