UPDATED.Located on Victoria Street, Ryde on the Isle of Wight Downing and Donovan (Ryde Garage) was the Standard Triumph area dealer on the island. UPDATE.We have looked at the 1939 Census for Downing and Donovan […]
A Facebook post on the Freshwater and Totland Archive Group came bak with some good memories: “I remember her, she used to come into Hitchman’s with her husband.” Sue Powell “I used to deliver her […]
I am really chuffed to have this through the letterbox this morning. This superb 144 page book follows on from the hugely successful DL Isle of Wight Motor Vehicles 1896-1939 and is called The Classic […]
Back on the mainland in 1984, VDL634 was sold by Allen Webb Engineering. Located at 130 Sturry Road, Canterbury Kent. The photo shows the dealer sticker still in the rear window. Allen Webb Engineering So […]
Isle of Wight International Classic Car show. ‘Best in Show 2016’ winner a Standard ‘Big’ 12 presented by owner/restorer Keith Joiner. Less than a handful of this model remain and this car was actually […]
Crossed paths many times – reunited at the weekend! These two Island cars met again after, no doubt, seeing each other regularly in and around Freshwater. Despite the V versus A – the Triumph Herald […]
The UK launch of the Triumph Herald convertible was originally planned for the UK Motor Show, at Earls Court in October with all early cars destined (from the launch in March 1960) for overseas. Due […]
Average mileage these days is seen as 10,000 per year, yet back in 1961 our car VDL634 seemed to cover 12,262 miles in nine months (28-9-1961) – on the tiny piece of land called the […]
The site of Ryde Garage is now a car park. It is a particular shame as all the other houses seem to be exactly the same. The Methodist Church can be seen at the end of […]
Since the scrappage of the UK tax disc – displaying them as opposed to paying the tax – there has been a whole host of companies set up reproducing the car tax disc for classic […]
