sps1955's photos with the keyword: Singer

My father's second Singer Gazelle, owned by him from new, just before it was traded in. I have at some point dated the slide mounts "29/30 Jan. 1976" but I must have got the year wrong because the replacement car, bought new, was on an R plate, current from 1 August 1976 to 31 July 1977. When we first looked at the slides, my mother remarked, "what a smart looking car", but the corrosion was in fact quite bad and considerable effort had to be put into keeping it as smart as possible (assisted by my late grandfather's body repair business, which my father ran for a few years); my father also believed that a leak in one corner of the windscreen had corroded the bulkhead. It had done over 100,000 miles.

My father's second Singer Gazelle, owned by him from new, just before it was traded in. I have at some point dated the slide mounts "29/30 Jan. 1976" but I must have got the year wrong because the replacement car, bought new, was on an R plate, current from 1 August 1976 to 31 July 1977. When we first looked at the slides, my mother remarked, "what a smart looking car", but the corrosion was in fact quite bad and considerable effort had to be put into keeping it as smart as possible (assisted by my late grandfather's body repair business, which my father ran for a few years); my father also believed that a leak in one corner of the windscreen had corroded the bulkhead. It had done over 100,000 miles.

My father's second Singer Gazelle, owned by him from new, just before it was traded in. I have at some point dated the slide mounts "29/30 Jan. 1976" but I must have got the year wrong because the replacement car, bought new, was on an R plate, current from 1 August 1976 to 31 July 1977. When we first looked at the slides, my mother remarked, "what a smart looking car", and considerable effort had been put into keeping it as smart as possible (assisted by my late grandfather's body repair business, which my father ran for a few years), but the area around the rear wheel arch reveals the truth; my father also believed that a leak in one corner of the windscreen had corroded the bulkhead. It had done over 100,000 miles.

Scanned from a print. Apparently taken to record the refurbishment that I remember being carried out shortly after my grandfather's death in late 1965. Series VI Singer Gazelles are visible on the far left and on the far right, and there is at least one more in the showroom (along with another Gazelle which is probably also a series VI) - this model was current from Sept. 1965 to March 1967. The showroom also contains what appears to be a Mark IV Singer Vogue, so presumably the photograph pre-dates the launch of its Arrow-style successor October 1966. There is also a Singer Chamois in the showroom and another one in the exit from the workshop. See set page for the history of the business.