Meet “Dixie”- Alan Hillier’s 1930 Junior Saloon. Dixie is Alan’s first vintage car.
He has previously owned several microcars-1950s/60s Bonds, Isettas, a Trojan 200 and a Frisky Family Three.
The car was sold new for £160 by Egertons (Ipswich)Ltd, whose enamel badge is still on the dash. In 1972 she was bought by Sagar Richards Ltd, who made the die cast aluminium-bronze gearbox selector forks for Juniors from 1927, to celebrate their Golden Jubilee Year (1969). This was the vehicle in which the very first of their products was used-they have since been a major supplier of such forks to the Motor Industry. They restored the car and kept it in their private museum in Halifax, Yorkshire until 1987, when they sold it to Judith Sluggit, who took it to Belgium and France, where it spent the next 10 years as “Our Little Treasure, 1’as Judith and her husband Pierre called it. Alan bought Dixie in November 2000 and has already clocked up several hundreds of miles driving to Rallies and events, including ASCO’s 25th Anniversary SNCR in Burford and the SOC 50th Anniversary celebrations in Northampton.
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