10-12-2023, 04:09 PM
I took my test in our Ruby, just as my mother had done 30 years earlier. The first time I drove it (on a provisional licence) was in the lanes of Hertfordshire between John Heath's workshop at Kettle Green and the Seven Workshop at Barwick.
Incidentally my mother had driven the car for some time without the need to take a test. Driving examiners were temporarily re-deployed to administer petrol rationing and driving tests were suspended. That was 1954 so not post-war rationing; possibly the Suez crisis?
Incidentally my mother had driven the car for some time without the need to take a test. Driving examiners were temporarily re-deployed to administer petrol rationing and driving tests were suspended. That was 1954 so not post-war rationing; possibly the Suez crisis?