Morris Minor Owners Club

Hi all,

I'd been intrigued about our Minor's history, and had tried tracing her original owner's decendants via the genealogy sites we subscribe to. This got a little complicated through the generations, and so I gave up. However, I didn't think to do the obvious and type the owner's name with "Morris Minor" into Google until a couple of evenings ago. Up popped extracts of a local historian's autobiography of growing up in the 1950s through the '60s. He described his grandmother by her full name, and how she became a well-known driving instructor around Bedford in her 60s and continued, in her split-screen Minor, well into her 80s. She even carried out her own servicing and repairs. The name, year of birth etc fitted perfectly.

I managed to trace the author's email address, and lo and behold received this in reply:[frame][/frame]
This is our car's original owner,at the age of 85, and still teaching people to drive in 1973 when the car was a "mere" 18 years old!

It's really good to learn how our car was part of Bedford's social history all those years ago.

Bernard

A proper bit of history!

Does it still have the old enamel GB on the boot, they are on ebay for about £20.

No, the car had nothing on the bootlid at all when we bought her - there were no holes either, I suspect a replacement panel.

Can anyone say if the rear wings in the photograph above are Series II or later? If the car was in use for learner drivers, it might have got through quite a few body panels in her time...!

Bernard

Just thought I'd take the liberty of making a Minor adjustment (groan!) to the photograph you posted, as it was quite over exposed. I hope you don't mind.[frame][/frame]

Err...yeah, thanks, Dryad...

It was just as the author sent to me, probably a scan of a print from an old Kodak Brownie or similar - I don't think they had much in the way of exposure compensation!

Bernard