08-01-2023, 01:36 PM
Being relatively new to this forum, I’ve only just stumbled over this thread.
I was lucky enough to find and restore ‘The Freehollow Flyer’ Sunshine saloon whilst serving in Washington DC in the early eighties. The car had about only 4500 miles from new and had a broken back where the ply-wood floor-pan had failed beneath the rear seat area. There was no evidence of a running-board reserve fuel tank ever having been fitted.
It may interest readers to know that E.C Gordon-England went to America in 1928 where he had concluded arrangements with The Holbrook Company, in upper New York State, to ‘manufacture ‘high-quality custom-built coachwork’ automobile bodies based on the Gordon-England patents. (See ‘Motor’ magazine May 22, 1928, pp 785) Sadly, The Holbrook Company went bust in 1929, a victim of the Wall Street crash.
It’s more than forty years since I also found the ‘Flyer’ in upper New York state and, although I can no longer quote a reference, I’m sure that my ‘Sunshine’ accompanied him and was taken over as a sample.
I was lucky enough to find and restore ‘The Freehollow Flyer’ Sunshine saloon whilst serving in Washington DC in the early eighties. The car had about only 4500 miles from new and had a broken back where the ply-wood floor-pan had failed beneath the rear seat area. There was no evidence of a running-board reserve fuel tank ever having been fitted.
It may interest readers to know that E.C Gordon-England went to America in 1928 where he had concluded arrangements with The Holbrook Company, in upper New York State, to ‘manufacture ‘high-quality custom-built coachwork’ automobile bodies based on the Gordon-England patents. (See ‘Motor’ magazine May 22, 1928, pp 785) Sadly, The Holbrook Company went bust in 1929, a victim of the Wall Street crash.
It’s more than forty years since I also found the ‘Flyer’ in upper New York state and, although I can no longer quote a reference, I’m sure that my ‘Sunshine’ accompanied him and was taken over as a sample.