20-05-2019, 09:49 PM
When I was 17, an apprentice at Vickers Weybridge, I cycled to work - about 8 miles. Each day I passed a house in Woodham where a forlorn Ruby sat in the driveway. One day it had a For Sale £5 sign on it. I stopped and as our pay was £2 6s 8d a week, bought it for said £5.
Arriving home, told Dad about it and asked for a tow home, as the engine and gearbox were sitting on the remains of the back seat. He politely declined when I told him that the brakes were in another box of bits. My brother who was a few years older offered to tow it home (In Dad's car). We wound a load of old carpet around the bumper of Dad's 1952 Morris Oxford and towed the Ruby home. I didn't have a driving licence, but reasoned that one wasn't needed for the towed vehicle, as it was only a 'trailer'. Anyone seen CCE 954 ??
Arriving home, told Dad about it and asked for a tow home, as the engine and gearbox were sitting on the remains of the back seat. He politely declined when I told him that the brakes were in another box of bits. My brother who was a few years older offered to tow it home (In Dad's car). We wound a load of old carpet around the bumper of Dad's 1952 Morris Oxford and towed the Ruby home. I didn't have a driving licence, but reasoned that one wasn't needed for the towed vehicle, as it was only a 'trailer'. Anyone seen CCE 954 ??