An Interesting Find In The Archive

Curator Damien Kimberley was in the archive recently, undertaking research for his latest book, and he came across two little pieces in consecutive editions of The Light Car And Cyclecar magazine, from January 1925, which we captured our imaginations, so we thought we would share them with you.

The first entry is this photograph of "a striking little three-wheeler seen in Coventry recently", and the magazine appeals for details from whoever owns the vehicle.




In the next edition, a full page article about the vehicle appears, explaining how it was built by a Mr F. W. Baker, of 'Rothsay', Pinley, Coventry, in his spare time, from the components of an old 6 h.p. Humber motorcycle "which had already seen much service".

We were fascinated by this little story of one man's endeavour to create something rather special, and hope you enjoy reading the article too: (Click on the image to open a larger version).