This is Viv Littlewood’s 1933 9hp Sports Tourer which was first registered in Somerset on 15th July 1933. Viv tells us:
“The car came into my possession in 1982 as a ‘Barn Find” in the village of Fiskerton, Nr Lincoln, the owner being a Mr D Gibson. The car was completely dismantled – just a jumble of parts in tea-chests and tomato trays. Not too far into the restoration I found that the ‘kit of parts’ was by no means complete. Fortunately, that summer, I had been on holiday to the Isle of Man, where I had found a wrecked 1934 ‘9’ Coupe (ANX740) in a bramble patch. The photographs I took showed that the parts I required were there for the salvaging. The owner agreed to let me have them and they were brought back to Yorkshire by other holiday makers. Returning from holiday in the Isle of Man the following year, I recovered all remaining salvageable parts-engine, axles, gearbox etc, and four years later the job was finished, I have since rebuilt two ’9’ LMs and am well into a third – my supposed retirement project!”