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Love the roads you've got there. I try to get to the Northwest 200 most years

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G

What a great thread this has developed into, thanks guys!

My own personal favourite for a replica is the Squire, certainly the prettiest of the 1930 PVT's - though not a commercial success.

There was a kit-car version of it some years ago, based if I remember on Alfa-bits, but I guess this was fated to go the same way as the original...

Brian,
A very appropriate choice for a Morgan site. What do you make of the story that in fact Adrian Squire's design was the 'visual inspiration' for HFS Morgan's 4-4 design?

regards,
G

I hadn't heard that one before Gerwyn. Don't you think he was more out of the John Cooper school of design, i.e. put the mechanical bits on the floor and draw a line round them for the body?

That Squire is just superb from every angle, VP really excelled themselves - the perfect interpretation of a British sports car, though this is my favourite view.

B

Couldn't agree more. It is a terrific car.

I got the story from Jonathan Wood's book Morgan- Performance Plus Tradition but he cites the original source as being Haps, Mishaps and Fun which was the autobiography of Reginald Slay, who had been a Director of the Squire Car Company.

Slay wrote:
" Adrian Squire had recruited Aston Martin's former sales manager, JJ Boyd-Harvey to sell his car. Boyd drove the works Vanden Plas demonstrator all over the country. I always remember the occasion when he came back and said he'd been to see his old friend HFS Morgan. He( Boyd) said, " What do you think Morgan did? He liked the car very much and he sat down and drew it!"

Leaving aside the truth or otherwise of this, there is an excellent side -on, black and white picture of the Squire in Wood's book. It really was a stunning design with an advanced mechanical spec: supercharged DOHC 1496cc 4-cylinder Anzani engine, pre-selector gearbox and hydraulic brakes

My apologies to the Mods for such a long post but (IMHO at least) it's the kind of story that makes classic cars so interesting

regards,
G

PS A further potential irony, his full name was Adrian Morgan Squire!

Brian, That is one beautiful car -