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Hi zefarelly,
Thanks for the pics and potted history.
Have driven past it a couple of times when I've been back in the UK visiting relatives. On the first occasion a few years back it was looking pretty tired as you describe.
Of automotive note the taxis dad used to run were pretty ordinary Morris 12s, black with a cream stripe down the side to make them a bit distinctive.
The limo's consisted of a 38 Buick sedan, a Lanchester and an absolutely magnificent 35 Packard Coupe de Ville, closed rear seats with chauffeur out in the open. He sold it for 30bob in 1941. Would be worth a fortune now.
The Buick was his "Queen Mary trailer" tug and the Lanchester was his transport through out the war. He was working for Westland Aviation and spent most of the war on the road repairing or recovering bent aircraft. The trailer was used to deliver or return major assemblies.
The Lanchester had a pr-selector box and I managed to put it through the back or the garage at Felpham aged 6! Gave me a lifelong hostility to any form of automatic box until I finally weakened and bought a Golf with a DSG box a few years back.
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