The Gloucester Drive has hosted Morgans demonstrating their sporting prowess since 1921, though more recently for driving tests. The VSCC held their annual Monsoon Season Driving Tests on 14th September. If the organisers can dry out and decipher the soggy score cards, results may be announced in due course. As well as twiddly bits on the tarmac, the day’s rain meant that the safe exit across the estate included a farmyard, deep potholes and a ford. After many decades of driving tests and Autosolos, this writer has to say that an F4 with the hood up is the most unsuitable machine. The vast flowing front wings make avoiding lamb chops or marked lines difficult, the hood makes hearing marshals’ instructions or seeing them waving their wet hands almost impossible. Despite which, Pickersleigh Road was rewarded by a class win.
The two Morgans in the second photo left the factory within months of each other in 1936. One still has the original 8hp engine. The other has a 1496cc Riley engine with many SUs fitted more recently.
Steve Kay
