Happy birthday to centenarian car (From Malvern Gazette)
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Happy birthday to centenarian car
1:10pm Friday 4th June 2010 in News
Katie Smith with the 100-year-old car
THE owners of a vintage car will be celebrating its 100th birthday this weekend.
The Malvern Hills Brass Band will be visiting the Leigh home of Geoffrey and Katie Smith to serenade their 1910 Straker-Squire on Sunday.
Straker-Squire was a Bristol-based company that initially made steam wagons before moving into the car market. The firm's engineer, Sir Roy Fedden, subsequently went on to design aircraft engines.
Mrs Smith said that her husband had owned the car since the 1940s, and in 1975 drove it from Land's End to John O'Groats.
"He also drove it in a parade in London, either for the Festival of Britain in 1951 or the Coronation in 1953," she said. "We also once visited Sir Roy Fedden when he lived over by the River Usk. It's totalled a fair number of miles with us."
