From: Bill Sheehan [email protected]
Date: 28 May 2002
Time: 11:02:14
Remote Name: 203.29.131.24
We may have been at cross-purposes here, Barry's highest number 185 is for the EA model, whereas I was including all the Super Sports, TTs etc that went before. Each series started off with a new number surely, because there were certainly more than 15 TOTAL before Barry's EA (which is May 1930), the EA commencing in Feb. that year. I have to repeat my thoughts on the many cars spread around the World that are unrecorded. On visits to UK and in correspondence I have found a reluctance and sometimes a refusal to include Australian cars on some Registers because we can't quote a Longbridge Body number. This includes a couple of my Pram Hoods, Ulster, '31 Fabric saloon and Speedy. Just because they are fitted with Australian bodies doesn't make them less-real or non-existent in my opinion. To get back to Speedy numbers, I know of 4 which came to Melbourne (have photos of 2), no reason why other capitol cities didn't have as many, plus New Zealand, South Africa etc Mine was originally shipped to Western Australia, had a very successful competition history before and after WW2 (was known as the most-raced car in W.A) - fitted with an Arnott blower was more than just a boy-racer .Totals? - of the 20 plus cars found so far, the highest body no. is 38, BUT a body plate in the mid-60s does exist, even though the car is as yet un-located. So much for 17. Cheers, Bill