TA0279 (CYY 800)
Liz McElwee sent me this fascinating WWW2 period picture of her late father’s TA and crew. Her covering email read as follows:
“This was probably taken at the family home in Co
ningsby in about 1940. My father bought the car from Bill Maiden’s garage in Sleaford when he was at 13 OUT Bicester. He was a Blenheim Bomber pilot and was in 18 Squadron at the time. Here with his crew – George driving, next to him Jim “Dinty” Moore his Wop/Ag and Ron Millar his navigator. He then served in 84 Squadron ending up in the Far East, became a Far East POW. Survived and returned to his family in Coningsby in October 1945.
He owned the car up until about 1950/51.”
A very old T Register record shows the car as being in Lisburn, Norther Ireland, but it is thought that the car may have come over to the mainland in October 2011. It comes up from the DVLA search facility as Taxed and on the road, with a last V5C date of October 2011.
Liz can be contacted at: lizmcelwee(at)btinternet.com [Please substitute @ for (at)]
Ed’s note:
’OUT’ Operational Training Unit’
‘Wop/Ag’ Wireless operator/Air gunner.
MG 7193 (TC but chassis number not known)
Ths car was featured in Issue 75 (December 2022). As the chassis number is not known, it was not possible to say whether it is a TA, TB, or TC. Reader, Gordon Bubb got in touch to say that his TC0878 (DAS 782) was originally registered MG 6996, so we can safely say that MG 7193 is a TC.
TA???? (BNG 660)
Chris Offer’s parents owned this TA in the late 1940s/early 1950s. It comes up from the DVLA search facility as ’Untaxed’ with a last V5C date of 4th March 1998. The contact details for Chris are chrisofwight(at)hotmail.co.uk [Please substitute @ for (at)].
