• Reference
    Z1306/128/3/2
  • Title
    High Street, Turvey. View looking east towards Bedford from just west of Bamford's Yard. A motor car (a Ford Model T belonging to Henry William Longhurst) is parked in the street with a woman standing beside it; the driver is talking to men standing the other side of the vehicle. No indication of publisher. Postmarked Leicester.
  • Date free text
    Postmarked 24 December 1914
  • Production date
    From: 1914 To: 1914
  • Scope and Content
    The number plate of the car is BM 3173. This number was first registered to a Ford Model T 4 seater belonging to Henry William Longhurst on the 28 March 1914. The number was transferred to Longhurst's next car, an Overland 5 seater in dark green, on the 9 Jan 1915, which was sold 10 months later to Miss Mabel Ellenbeck of Bedford, who in turn sold it to William Blacklocks of Kent in July 1917.
  • Format
    Photographic postcard
  • Level of description
    item