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Jan 10, 2016 1:04 am
Jan 10, 2016 1:04 am
Subject: Re: Tyres originally fitted at Staines?
Hi Richard,
No point in trying for a build sheet for your 16/80. The build sheets for all the smaller cars were deliberately destroyed by an unnamed someone in a fit of pique in the late 1940s or early 1950s.
As some of the people involved are still alive it is inappropriate to discuss the circumstances in an open forum but to give you a clue, after the War there were two clubs serving two distinct groups of people. There was the revived Lagonda Car Club and the Two Litre Register. The latter tended to support people with the older, "vintage" Lagondas who did their own maintenance, whereas the former supported the Meadows engined and V12 models. These were pretty new at the time and still owned by the sort of person who could afford to have their cars worked on by a specialist. These records survive.
The post-war Lagonda Car Club was revived by Mr Davies who was formerly the factory service manager and set up business at 273 London Road in Staines to service these cars.
It is worth trying to get hold of a copy of Geoff Seaton's book which explains a lot of this situation in more depth. Many of us were good friends with both Geoff Seaton and Phil Ridout who explained to us youngsters the background to the formation of the present club when the two predecessors were merged in October 1951. Both of these two chaps are no longer with us and I sorely miss their company.
This is now a long time ago and sadly the action of this disgruntled person (who I never knew) still impacts on us owners of the "lesser" cars. Hey Ho.
It does make finding things out all a lot more fun though...
Cheers Colin M34
Hi Richard,
No point in trying for a build sheet for your 16/80. The build sheets for all the smaller cars were deliberately destroyed by an unnamed someone in a fit of pique in the late 1940s or early 1950s.
As some of the people involved are still alive it is inappropriate to discuss the circumstances in an open forum but to give you a clue, after the War there were two clubs serving two distinct groups of people. There was the revived Lagonda Car Club and the Two Litre Register. The latter tended to support people with the older, "vintage" Lagondas who did their own maintenance, whereas the former supported the Meadows engined and V12 models. These were pretty new at the time and still owned by the sort of person who could afford to have their cars worked on by a specialist. These records survive.
The post-war Lagonda Car Club was revived by Mr Davies who was formerly the factory service manager and set up business at 273 London Road in Staines to service these cars.
It is worth trying to get hold of a copy of Geoff Seaton's book which explains a lot of this situation in more depth. Many of us were good friends with both Geoff Seaton and Phil Ridout who explained to us youngsters the background to the formation of the present club when the two predecessors were merged in October 1951. Both of these two chaps are no longer with us and I sorely miss their company.
This is now a long time ago and sadly the action of this disgruntled person (who I never knew) still impacts on us owners of the "lesser" cars. Hey Ho.
It does make finding things out all a lot more fun though...
Cheers Colin M34