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As we all know, driving a morgan out and about requires a bit of digital fettling with fingers getting trapped under tonneau covers, hood assembly’s, side screens and a whole manner of avoiding sharp metal bits, trap points and press studdedness

If you have office hands like mine then there is the odd occasion where a finger draws blood while messing about and usually involves much swearing

Anyway I was out in the Morgan taking it to the tennis club this week and cut my finger fettling the hood assembly on the back of a press stood while stuffing the hood and my hand blindly into what I thought was a pocket

Tip is to always keep a packet of plasters in the glove box or somewhere very accessible while driving

I do have a first aid kit buried in what is a boot under the hood but I only noticed the drip of blood while back driving and managed to create blood stains all over my tennis whites and magnolia leather cockpit as I tried to drive with my finger swapping between my mouth and gear shift

I had to stop in the end and make a bandage out of a face mask from the glove box as I don’t think I could have got to the first aid kit without further blood staining

There is a reason Officers wear dark brown leather gloves and Marines wear white gloves when in ceremonial blues. When returning the sword to its scabbard whilst marching you could catch the inside skin between thumb and first finger, with brown gloves the blood couldn't be seen. When giving the order to fix bayonets you would first listen for the clatter of a misplaced bayonet and then when you had a chance look at the white gloves to see who had seeping blood, then you knew who had not followed the drill correctly.