Great British Cars #BritainisGreat

British cars. Britain was a leader in car manufacture, a shame it is no longer. There are plenty of car factories still in  Britain, but mostly making foreign cars.

Bentley, Rolls Royce, Jaguar, Sunbeam, Austin, Rover, MG are just a few that spring to mind, the only car manufacturer still owned by the original family are Morgan.

New Morgan Car leaving factory

Everything goes round in cycles, or so they say. Maybe one day we will see a resurgence in British cars, lets hope so, I'm sick of seeing big fat Chelsea tractors being driven round our small British roads.

Henry Jenkins and Morris Minors

Henry Jenkins, late of Ellerton-On Swale, reputedly lived to be 169. Honest. Here are photographs of his memorial in Bolton-on-Swale churchyard, and the poem on the wall inside St Mary's Church. Here is a link from the Northern Echo http://archive.thenorthernecho.co.uk/2002/3/2/144076.html . Genuki also has published an excellent piece about him here:

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/NRY/Boltononswale/Boltononswale90.html

Also spotted this lovely Moggie in Sandhutton. There's just something about old cars, especially an old British car from an era long past. They look more robust than modern cars, and surely their existence is proof of this. Eat your heart out Nissan, you'll never make cars like these.