02-01-2022, 11:24 AM
When I was still working, around 10 years ago, I did work for a client who lived in a village about 5 miles from Thirsk. The client was Major Peter Steveney, who was a most entertaining old lad who had spent his career in the Royal Household, I believe he had been in the Household Cavalry. He was very posh and was everything you would imagine , chain smoking, liked the odd glass of malt, a flutter on the horses etc etc.
One day whilst chatting to him I must have mentioned Austin 7's, it was around the time that I was starting the Ulster replica build, and he became very interested.
He told me that as a boy he had lived on Jersey and his Mother had an Austin 7 Ulster which he said went like a bomb! In the early post war years, probably around 1948, his Mother found out that there was going to be a hill-climb on the island up the hill from the coast, close to where they lived. I assume this was the Bouley Bay hill-climb. His Mother announced that she was going to enter in her Austin Ulster, much to the amusement of her husband. She had never done anything like that before but suffice to say came home with an award which suggests she won her class.
I never found out the identity of the Ulster but could it have been this car?
Perhaps someone could research the Bouley Bay results, if they survive?
One day whilst chatting to him I must have mentioned Austin 7's, it was around the time that I was starting the Ulster replica build, and he became very interested.
He told me that as a boy he had lived on Jersey and his Mother had an Austin 7 Ulster which he said went like a bomb! In the early post war years, probably around 1948, his Mother found out that there was going to be a hill-climb on the island up the hill from the coast, close to where they lived. I assume this was the Bouley Bay hill-climb. His Mother announced that she was going to enter in her Austin Ulster, much to the amusement of her husband. She had never done anything like that before but suffice to say came home with an award which suggests she won her class.
I never found out the identity of the Ulster but could it have been this car?
Perhaps someone could research the Bouley Bay results, if they survive?