The Standard

This was Dad's first car - a Standard 8 with a Standard 10 engine in it. Dad not only changed the engine in it but also re-painted it (so that later it was dark blue). It was the car on which I learned to drive. Among my early long drives as a learner were one to Aberystwyth and back and a few around the Trough of Bowland.

BSA Bantam

How the Bantam should have looked - and (below) how it all too often did look!
I spent too much time trying to get it my first motorbike to go to actually ride it much – or even photograph it. It was a BSA Bantam 175. I’d sold my camera at College so this is a photo of someone else’s bike.

Pictured here is the Bantam engine - in bits!