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MH
Germany
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 Posted - 01/05/2017 : 18:00:35
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The first owner of my PA 1816:
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Richard Hinton
United Kingdom
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Posted - 14/06/2017 : 13:41:35
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My own 1933 J1 Salonette was purchased new by a Mrs Lee of Thirsk in Yorkshire. Few cars on the roads, far fewer lady drivers, I would have thought quite a small number who could buy a new and quite expensive car in their own name. I have always wondered what her background might have been in those so different days 84 years ago.
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George Wilder
United Kingdom
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PeterL
United Kingdom
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Posted - 14/06/2017 : 15:04:20
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Well well! I know Thirsk. There was another salonette 25 miles away, up the road at Eaglescliife. That is where F Type RX9619 had gone the previous year, to a Mr Jones, as I recall, must check. I found nothing on him when I researched many years ago, He lived at The Garth but there seemed to be no trace of that either... Mr Jones had a penchant for painted number plates which is why the car was registered at Abingdon...
Cheers
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Vitesse
United Kingdom
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Posted - 15/06/2017 : 12:41:12
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Mrs Lee appears to have remained in Thirsk after selling the hotel, passing away in 1962 at the age of 90.
Her first husband, Charles Harold Macauley, born Huddersfield 1867, was also a publican - they are on the 1901 census at the Commercial Hotel in Sowerby, just south of Thirsk. He died in 1909 and she married James Lee in 1912. James possibly died in 1948, but there are at least two candidates in Thirsk on earlier censuses, neither of them publicans in 1911 - one was a butcher and the other a draper. Of the two, the butcher looks a bit more likely. Could be neither of them though! That would probably need research in the local papers. |
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Richard Hinton
United Kingdom
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Posted - 16/06/2017 : 12:54:57
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Wow, fantastic research information - thanks chaps .
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