COVENTRY MESSAGE BOARD

Anything to oblige! 1st Car approx 1955/56 1936 Morris 8 Tourer, bought from a "dealer", looked like a bomb site, by Spon End arches on the Chapelfields side going out of city, for £95. Learner driver father accompanied me, won`t say he "taught" me, as he only had a motor cycle a...

Yes, I speak from bitter experience, I had a BSA Bantam at the time and my girl friend would have nothing to do with it (her father used to race motor bikes and threatened her with death etc........) so I allowed my brother to palm one of Mr. Ford`s best off on me, as you say constant attention need...

The "Photo" showing Woolies under construction.

There was a joke..........
Mr.Henry Ford, heard there was a market after WW2 for second hand cars.
So he produced one ..... the Ford Popular.

Seems he was right, looking at the fleet in that photo.

"Who or what was W.H.Jones" Thanks for the welcome Dutchman. You`ve got me there - I have obviously been away from Coventry too long - I thought W.H.Jones was part of the woodwork of Coventry. Briefly W.H.Jones was a medium sized local building contractor, its Joinery Mill,Plant yard and o...

Worked there in the mid 1960`s

Anybody still around?

I seem to remember him pushing a bike along St Patricks Row going in the direction of the top end of Greyfriars green. He always answered "Happy Yes" - "Happy Yes" and repeated it perhaps ad infinitum this would be in about 1962/63