I make no apologies for including this portrait of Graham's trusty stead UVJ 129J. It carried us on numerous trips around the country with varying degrees of reliability between 1980 and 1983. It was a Hereford-registered vehicle that had been passed to Graham by his father who lived in the city. Despite its smart appearance here sitting on the New Holland loading pontoon adjacent to MV Farringford, it did suffer with the usual Austin 1100 rust malaise. Graham was the final keeper with it on the road until 1984 when it was scrapped and replaced by another of his father's hand-me-downs, a 1981 Metro.
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