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Posted: 22 Jan 2012


Taken: 01 Jan 1953

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1950s
Lincolnshire
Lincoln
St Catherine's
Young's Garage
Citroën Traction 11BL
Citroën Light 15


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Young's Garage, 53-55 St. Catherine's, Lincoln, early 1950s

Young's Garage, 53-55 St. Catherine's, Lincoln, early 1950s
Scanned from a print in the family collection. The car in the showroom is an Austin A40 Somerset, current from 1952-4. Other cars, from left to right, and mostly older, are:

Vauxhall (Preston area registration from 1946-8 );
Morris 10 series M (leaving the forecourt; 1944-6 London registration);
Bentley (having its windscreen wiped);
Citroën Traction Avant (being filled with petrol and looking very clean - I wondered if it might be the garage demonstrator, but the registration looks like DVL10, a Lincoln-issued plate which, astonishingly, still (28 Feb. 2012) belongs to a Citroën first registered in June 1949, so it was not particularly new when this photo was taken; according to the DVLA database, it has a 1911cc engine, so is probably a Traction 11BL (or "Light 15" in English parlance);
Standard (perhaps; the front is obscured by the Citroën);
What I think is a Rover P2 or P3 with the less familiar 4-light "Sports Saloon" body (in Hamilton Road, only the rear visible; cf. i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh90/1947rover/Tilly5.jpg ).

The pumps are now all branded "Esso", in contrast to the variety on offer in 1939.

See set page for the history of the business.

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