750 Club Meeting

Heavy rain gave way to sunshine in time for the 750 Club’s meeting at Ashdown Park Hotel on March 2nd. An excellent number of cars attended and lunch was a revival of pre-war motoring fraternising, with absorbing gossip and an atmosphere of avid enthusiasm the order of the day. Amongst those present were:— Phil Hunter and fiancée in a Morris Eight saloon; Douglas Tubbs in his D.K.W.; H. L. Biggs in his red Fiat 500; Brymer in his Riley “Gamecock,” which later broke its contact-breaker spring and holed its fuel tank; Birkett and Mrs. Birkett in a rather special Austin Seven saloon; Gordon Woods with his beautiful Frazer-Nash; a new member with a Morris Eight four-seater; Capt. Noon’s “Nippy” Austin Seven, which has a standard engine endowed with an “Ulster” head, 8 to l compression-ratio, and down-draught carburetter, extra instruments, William’s braking and Michelin Extra-Low-Pressure rear boots; Boddy, wet through but triumphant, with his 1924 Gwynne Eight; Jenkinson and his Scuderia in an M.G. Magnette, and a sports four-seater Austin Seven.