Continental Notes, October 1956
WITH the Spanish Grand Prix being cancelled the 1956 World Championship concluded at the recent Monza race and once more Juan Manuel Fangio gained the title of World Champion. At…
Cycle car
In your September issue you have a short piece in “V-E-V Miscellany” about a cyclecar, constructed by a W. Pool, also a photo. This stirs a memorv for me.
In 1927 I was a 14-year-old apprentice in a Cheltenham Motor Agents. The senior fitter / electrician was a man named Pool. So senior was he to all of at that he was always called Mr. Pool. never “Bill”.
He was fond of talking about his early motoring. He told me he once built his own cyclecar, while in the Midlands. Could this possibly be the same man?
At the time I knew him, Mr. Pool owned a car called a ‘Perryof 1913 vintage. It was beautifully kept, and paid only a reduced road tax. When was this concession abolished? I do not know what happened to Mr. Pool, or that wonderful car, so perhaps there were two such men? Cheltenham N. DYER