My dad fully restored a Hansom Cab, including making new wheels. Hand painted but no special regalia! Pinstriped wheel rims and spokes with rubber tyres. I watched him doing the wheel pinstriping, I was aged about 6/7. The next year he showed me a Morgan he was refurbing. It stuck in my memory and influenced buying my first Morgan.
Funnily enough I found his Apprenticeship Indention papers last month while going through old paperwork. During his national service with RASC he worked on gun carriages and was at a couple of Royal Tournaments with the Royal Horse Artillery display team. They tried persuading him to stay on with promotion etc but he wanted to get back to Civvy Street.
