Following on from DVT’s
“When I started work (1965) and not old enough to drive I cycled from my home (Conway Cottage, next to the Bodnant Welsh Food Centre entrance) UP Bodnant Hill to Ffrith-y-Foel, where I got a lift to Colwyn Bay with the daughter of the family who lived there ... I cannot remember her name now, but the car was an Austin A35!”
but figuring if it has a place, it’s probably better in cars than in an ancestry thread...
OT but I’d not have thought the A35 that unusual then? Mum (who passed her test in a Triumph Herald in N Wales in the 60s) had an A30 followed by an A35 in that era. The first one had the indicators that popped out of the sides. Kept her going until the Comma van (campervan conversion) came along. Dad was “posher” with Abbey National Company cars which would take me to the Austin 1100/1300 series in our say mid 60s/early 70s Pydew period.
A30 pretty much met it’s end around Bodnant, coming back from Llanwrst (dad used to play cricket there and the rest would sometimes make their own way there/back). It limped all the way back to Pydew but had started making a racket and a chap in that off the main road garage said the big end had gone.
There again, memory associations can be like that. The only thing I could tell you about the kindly villager (Condover, Shropshire then – pre N Wales) that took me to hospital for stitches after a bicycle accident was that he had a Ford Consul Corsair and he can only have lived 3 or 4 doors away from us.
Coming back to the A30/35. I think mum used to do a shopping run in one or both of these. I think it was her, Alice and Menna (neither of whom drove or had cars) to Deganwy Kwiks.