Sam Hewitt

With reference to Tim Britton’s ongoing project and losing things when moving house. I too have suffered the same agony. In 1984 we relocated, but only next door, so we took out two sections of fencing for the ‘removals.’ Straightaway, we had a really big garage commissioned, double width and 26ft long, intending to build…

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Reading the Percy Tait obituary (February 2020) reminded me of the various chats I had with Jaguar tester and legend Norman Dewis, who also passed away in 2019 – June 8 to be precise, at the age of 98. Norman and Percy’s paths often crossed when they were testing their respective products at MIRA (Motor…

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Martin Squires’ Sketchbooks are outstanding every month but that beautiful drawing of the Cotton Conquest in the January 2020 issue really took me back. Martin’s statement that a production of 200 might have been exaggerated makes the fact that my roommate purchased one new from Lee Cowie’s Motorsport in St Louis, Missouri, a special memory.…

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What could be better than reading TCM whilst being mid-Atlantic on the Queen Mary 2? I have owned my B31 since 1965 and it’s been recently restored to its original alternator specification, after I had converted it to magdyno in the 1960s as the old 6v alternator system kept boiling batteries. No voltage control then,…

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Having read the fantastic article in the March edition of The Classic Motorcycle, regarding the Sunbeam S7/S8, I can inform you that Lord Montgomery’s motorcycle is in the Louwman Museum in Den Hague, along with Winston Churchill’s Humber Pullman car. The museum is well worth a visit for anyone interested. This photograph was taken in…

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