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Chestnut Crowned Laughing Thrush, now known as the Malayan Laughing Thrush was common. Kekicau-Riang Ubun Merah.
1973 Morris Marina 1.3 Deluxe Coupe.
Anglia Car Auctions, King's Lynn -
"Chassis number: MA2S9S229699M
First registered in July 1973 to a Muriel Howard from Reading. Sold through ADT auctions in 1990 to a Mr Bonfield of Staines with warranted mileage of 5,350, a copy invoice of this transaction comes with the car. In January 1994 the Marina was purchased by Mr John Saunders, the founder of Stondon Motor Museum and subsequently transferred to the museum in 1997. The Morris was sold on when the Stondon museum closed in 2015 and now records six owners and just 9,053 miles.
Three MoTs from 1990, 1991 and 1993 show that the mileage had only risen to 7,816 by November 1993.
The original passport to service book contains two stamps up to 3,679 miles in March 1975 and a further hand written entry at 4,992 miles in May 1990.
Comes with an older cancelled V5, the current V5C, four MoTs, Morris Passport to service, original owner’s handbook and a period RAC member’s welcome pack."
Estimate - £3000 to £5000. Sold for £3922 including premium.
A rather fine c1934 brochure and catalogue for the French street lighting manufacturers Établissements PBL entitled Éclairage Public and featuring many of the lanterns that were once so much a part of the French street scene. The company were closely associated with, and appear to share the same address, as the SA Holophane whose components are certainly used in the lanterns shown.
Holophane was a name associated internationally with street lighting - on the Continent, here in the UK and in North America. It had its origins in France in 1893 when "L'ingénieur français André Blondel", in collaboration with "l'ingénieur Grec Spiridion Psaroudaki" patented a prismatic glass bowl reflector for lighting use. By the 1920s the company had spawned three major offshoots by licensing the rights to the patents and designs. In France the company was also involved in domestic as well as industrial lighting.
The designs here show the typical 'style of lanterns as well as some wonderfully modern style columns and brackets, in metal and in concrete (béton). I doubt if many now survive as I imagine as in the UK time will have taken its toll but I think some French 'heritage' street lighting designs probably owe something of their 'look' to these PBL designs.
The brochure is beautifully produced and in a spiral bound format and is produced by that doyenne of French publicity designers and printers the Frères Draeger in Paris.
1973 Morris Marina 1.3 Deluxe Coupe.
Anglia Car Auctions, King's Lynn -
"Teal blue with Ochre interior. Has done a certified 8,807 miles from new. V5 shows four owners. A photocopy of the original V5 shows the first was a Muriel Howard it then passed to William Bonfield in 1990 with sales receipt showing the mileage at just 5,350 miles warranted with supporting services in the original Passport to service book at 956 miles, 3,679 miles and 4,992 miles. Subsequent MoTs show the mileage at 7,430 in 1991 and 7,816 in 1993.It passed to the third owner in 1994 who registered it in his personal name before registering it in the name of his museum where it remained unused and exhibited until recently. Current MoT until October 2016 where the MoT tester commented how remarkable it was having never been welded.
Recorded mileage 8,807."
Sold for £4200 on an estimate of £3500 to £4500.