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Old 15th May 2012, 20:32
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Abbott coachbuilders of Farnham

GW 713 coachwork is by Weymann. This is one of the few survivors having been taken into preservation by Prince Marshall. For a while it was stored by the Science Museum but his son is now restoring it and progress can be monitored on http://gilfordgw713.blogspot.co.uk/. The second vehicle is harder to work out because of the incomplete registration plate. It is a Gilford 168T, and the most likely candidate is probably OV 1328 which was fitted with coachwork by a company called Auto-Cellulose and first registered in May 1931. Its first owner was F. Partridge of Birmingham. There is one other registration number option that I am aware of and that is OV 242 registered in April 1931 to Burgess and Garfield in Birmingham. That option exists because we know it was a Gilford but not what model it was.
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