Logo

Articles

26 March 2008

Chassis No. FR2644

My first intensive phase of vintage motoring came to an end on 19 February 1953 when, having cashed the (uncrossed) Postal Order representing the Queen's Shilling, I arrived at Gibraltar Barracks, Bury St Edmunds, in a Bentley driven by Father. For a few seconds — while I disembarked and said goodbye outside the entrance — I commanded some reverence, but it quickly evaporated when I explained my mission.

Chassis No. FR2644
By Rodney Dale
Published in Halcyon Days: Recollections of Vintage Motoring, 1999

My first intensive phase of vintage motoring came to an end on 19 February 1953 when, having cashed the (uncrossed) Postal Order representing the Queen's Shilling, I arrived at Gibraltar Barracks, Bury St Edmunds, in a Bentley driven by Father. For a few seconds — while I disembarked and said goodbye outside the entrance — I commanded some reverence, but it quickly evaporated when I explained my mission.     Continued...

Click on the pages below to read complete article
 
Page 1 Page 2
   
First published in Halcyon Days: Recollections of Vintage Motoring, 1999
Posted here on Mar 26, 2008