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THANKS AGAIN BOB IS IT OK TO RING YOU TO TALK ABOUT THE CAR I DO TALK BETTER THAN I WRITE
JUST A FEW QUESTION YOU MAY BE ABLE TO HELP ME WITH
REGARDS
FRED

I am an Englishman , but have lived in the USA for thirty years, I have amongst my vintage cars a 1921 Wolseley 15 hp A9 that I have owned since 1974 Its UK registation is YA 780 and I am the third owner, The car was maroon when I acquired it and I have retained that color although the original colour was green. I rallied the car most weekende in the summer before I was transferred to the USA in 1992. The car was origionally purchased by a farmer in Uphill outside of Weston Super Mare , (Where I was Born). The history I have is that he used it until 1927 when a bus service passed his farm so he put the car in a dutch barn where it stayed until 1964 when it was aquired by a Mr Burge, who re-commissioned it and used to take his wife to the local pub. He apparently had several vintage vehicles mainly Rolls Royces. When I first saw the car it was in the showrooms of Vincents of Yeovil , from whom it was purchased in 1921 by the farmer, to help launch the Wolseley princess model. I purchased the car from Mr Burge’s widow, The car never let me down and although I have looked foe spares for thirty years I have onlyt found electrical spares. The car is exactly as all pictures of the model except that it has a racked windscreen whereas all pictures and adverts show a perpendicular one.
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Further to my previous contact, the Wolseley 15 I have was when I first acquired it was from Mrs Burge who lived in Axbridge, Sommerset and I then lived in Winterbourne, Avon.