Very excited - registration

[jpsmit]

Richard (Dick) Shipman was a student at Cambridge University in the early sixties. I lost track of him after that But I did hear that he had gone to Canada. I last saw him in 2006 when he visited UK. I think it was 1963 when we had a road rally, involving a timed double crossing of a ford which was frozen. Most of us completed the test without incident, but Dick went through the ice on his first crossing, so he was ice-breaking for the rest of the crossing and completeing the opening of a passage through the ice on the way back! His time was considerably slower than those who had gone before.
Robert Leigh

That would be him - and I understand that he left the car in the care of Mr. Whyman when he (Dick) came to Canada. Dick gave strict instructions that the car be driven but not dismantled - when he returned to Britain he discovered that the car was in pieces so packed it in a crate and brought it back to Canada. Hence me buying it from what appears to be the second last owner.