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Andrew Fock
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 Posted - 05/07/2022 : 04:13:55
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L2069 was registered WP4560 in September of 1933 (red with red interior). George Eagle has kindly sent me the information on the factory file which take the car up until late 1934. In late 1944 the car appears in Melbourne Australia now painted black, still with its UK plates and a GB touring plate and with "Isle of White M.G. Magna" written on the side of the bonnet. The Australian history is now sorted. Does anyone have any information on WP4560 from late 1934 or how it came to be in Australia?
Thanks
Andrew
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Andrew Fock
Australia
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Posted - 05/07/2022 : 11:17:34
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Talking to the current owner tonight..... apparently he was contacted by a fellow in 1989 who claimed that the car was raced at the Douglas Circuit on the Isle of White. Are there any records of an L2 there pre-war?
regards,
Andrew
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MORRIS-MAN
United Kingdom
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Posted - 05/07/2022 : 12:36:43
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Hi Andrew,
I will email you.
Kind regards
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Oz34
United Kingdom
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Posted - 05/07/2022 : 12:50:51
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Andrew, would that not be Douglas, Isle of Man?
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Andrew Fock
Australia
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Posted - 05/07/2022 : 21:45:28
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Originally posted by Oz34
Andrew, would that not be Douglas, Isle of Man?
Dave
Hi Dave... As you are pointing out, the Douglas Circuit is on the Isle of Man..... I was directly quoting what the owner told me (he's in his mid 80's and had written down on a scrap of paper what he was told 35 years ago). Were races held on the Isle of White in the 1930's?
Andrew
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Oz34
United Kingdom
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Posted - 05/07/2022 : 21:55:52
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That would be for someone else to answer Andrew however, it's in fact the Isle of Wight, unless there's another I've never heard of!
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KevinA
New Zealand
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Andrew Fock
Australia
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Posted - 06/07/2022 : 08:22:54
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Thanks Kevin and Dave.... yes sorry... Isle of Wight! As far as we've been able to find, nothing to di with the Hotel at Cowes..... (Phillip Island). The car was not registered in Victoria till 1944 and the rego card says Ex-NSW.
(The Rego papers give the same date though nothing about NSW).
So the Douglas circuit thing may be a furphy .......
Last owner in the UK that I have info on was a G.R. Clark in late 1934
regards
Andrew
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