We promised you Kids & Cars as one of our themes in the new year, not only because we think it is fun. Also because we believe they are the future of the hobby. First to come in was Charlie Biddulph, showing off at the wheel of his 1920 RR Silver Ghost. It looks like he is very much in control, we foresee a great future for him with many vintage and prestigeous miles ahead. Slihgtly older in age are the two chaps taking a lunchbreak along their 1932 Lagonda 3 ltr. Weymann Saloon According to father Jean-Marie this is not a posed portrait, but a moment of hapiness captured in time. The Lagonda was sold in 2012, and Jean-Marie is now working on three(!) Talbot projects. Another young Mr. Marc (son of Peter Verweij) is taking his first Model T driving course, but in the meantime has upgraded and took a dive in father's Model A. Now don't you think this is a man's hobby alone. John Memmelaar of New Jersey, USA took his 9 year old daughter to a church parking and gave her a quick driving lesson in his 1909 Buick Model F. She now tells all her friends that she can drive, making many of their parents angry, as their children now also want to drive their cars. Now this last line is what we are really after aren't we? Preserving the hobby for the new generation.
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On the other hand I may just write to Messers Barker & co & complain to them directly about their lack of forethought in how the irons were manufactured???? We modern people who know these things should castigate the original makers for their clearly slovenly work & design.
(and no it is not true, as someone once tried to tell me, that it depended on [whatever]; in every country and every type of body, the irons folded the same)