LETTERS from READEARS

Mention was made in the September issue (V-E-V) of the G. L. Baker 5.4-litre Graham-Paige and the possibility of it having been broken up before the war. I am happy to say that this was not the carets I bought this car from Ian Metcalf in 1945. It was a most amazing machine, I seem to remember that it gave 35 m.p.h. at 1,300 r.p.ih., the maximum was said to be 4,500 r.p.m. Its thirst of 5/6 mpgduring my petrol rationing was a little too much for even my enthusiasm .d after six months I sold into a man who was emigrating to Rhodesia. As a friend of mine said at the time “there was only one other clot in the country who would have bought the car and you were lucky enough to find Fowey J. E. B. LITTLE