Old Trials Special

[Steve kay]

Some further info about the Seven based special, found next to the pre-production Dellow in a shed at Peter Binns. The car may have belonged to John Farnsworth, who occasionally stored machines at Peter Binns. Mr Farnsworth was not the most organised person, his own living accommodation dubious, the house he inherited when his mother died just seemed to decay, unused. He had worked at Brown & Gammons, but fell out with Ron Gammons. He certainly worked over quite a long period on cars for Peter Binns. Sometimes small jobs or bits of tuning took a long time, other large jobs were  well done and quite quickly, notably the new chassis under the Riley  Beavis special, very bent by drunken locals in the middle of a Measham night. The Riley was "lozenged",  the Herald that ran into the back of it destroyed.