A 1926 Morris Cowley Bullnose Sports is taking to the roads for the first time since the 1930s to attend the Hurworth Grange Classic Car and Motor Cycle Show today.
As we told last week, it was discovered as a “farm hack” in a barn in Lincolnshire.
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Because car technology was moving on so quickly, the Bullnoses became old within a decade of being built, but they still had plenty of mileage in them, so farmers would buy them cheaply, cut off the dickey seat at the rear and create a flat-bed wagon for doing chores around the farmyard.
“I was born on a smallholding in Salters Lane South in 1941 and this is a photo (above) taken about 1946 of my brother David, born in 1943, and behind him is a very similar car to the Morris Bullnose,” says Brian Wastell in Stockton. “I remember my Dad saying it was about 1925 vintage.
“The back half of the body had been cut off and we used it to transport stuff around the fields.
“My Dad put oversized tyres on top of the existing tyres and they had slots cut out of them to aid traction on the fields.
“It was later scrapped leaving only the chassis and steering wheel which was parked at the side of the drive, and I used to drive many miles in without going anywhere.
“Around this time, my Dad had a Morris with thermometer on the radiator and he would put a trailer on it and go and collect goats. The local butcher would kill and skin the goats and my Dad would send the hides to London.
“Later on, he purchased a Vauxhall VX 14 with a fluted bonnet just like the one in All Creatures Great and Small.”
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