Hi Ian, welcome to the forum and thanks for all the great info.
I made your link active.
Coventry Cars and Motoring - Humber / Hillman / Rootes / Chrysler / Peugeot
Ian Robinson New Forest, Hampshire
212 of 212Tue 20th Feb 2024 11:02am
Thanks Helen,
The link to The Nostalgia Forum will allow anyone interested in following this saga to keep in touch with progress on the restoration and there is also a You Tube link to the NMM's Transport Torque event held on the 27th January.
The definitive list of events for the Sunbeam 1000HP in the various SMMT parades would appear to be solely Belfast, Cardiff, and London. The Coventry / Birmingham parade is quoted as featuring Sir Henry Segrave's Golden Arrow and (presumably) Sir Malcolm Campbell's Blue Bird of 1935 that later went to the USA (still there!). Again, if anything else surfaces about this event, I would love to find out more.
Hopefully I can contribute something on Coventry built vehicles in this Forum. Enough of Black Country intruders for the time being!
When not dealing with Unipart matters at what was then the former Standard-Triumph Spares Division on the Fletchamstead Highway I used to help with the Coventry Transport Museum. At that time, the collection was mainly in store at Tile Hill with a selection of vehilces on display at the Herbert Art Gallery. Great times!
Ian
Coventry Cars and Motoring - Humber / Hillman / Rootes / Chrysler / Peugeot