The same car

It was 1960 and I was leafing through ‘’Exchange and Mart ‘’when I saw advertised a 1934 Singer-le-Mans for £65; about two months pay as a serving RAF Technician. As the car was advertised in Birmingham this was convenient as my family lived on the outskirts. In due course I purchased the said car from a married chap who was reluctantly selling due to an expanding family. Well time moves on; it is now 1990, and I had long left the RAF, obtained professional qualifications and pursued an engineering career in Building Services moving around the country with various employers. Now living in Lichfield, I joined the Birmingham Regional Hospital Board as a senior design engineer and Friday lunchtime was when you relaxed with your colleges over a pint and a chat. We were generally discussing cars, when Tony one of my drinking partners, said he use to own a Singer-le-Mans. The following week we both produced photos of the cars and you’ve guessed --- it was the same Singer, and he was the fellow who sold it to me 30 years ago.