As I have written before, I visited the showroom on seveal occasions, and the workshop on many more.
What I found very unusual was the very oldfashioned feel of both places. Mr Crooks office was like a 1960's timewarp, furniture, typewriter, etc etc. The workshop had an abscence of modern equipment, at least I saw none.
In hindsight I realise that maybe the company survived on a shoestring budget, the small profit did not go to fancy new equipment, but to continual development of the cars.
The mechanics were/are very skilled, with a total knowledge of the cars.
The foreman knew every alternation that has been done to my car since it was new, and helped me greatly in the restoration.
I had the engine brutally upgraded by a specialist in Crowborough, and when my car was taken to the workshop after the propshaft snapped racing my wife on the M25 (shame on us!!), he gently told me off, that I should have told them about the engine, so they could have replaced it with a more suitably stronger one.
I am in the process of writing a small article for the BOC Bulletin or Newsletter about my ownership and restoration, untill I sold it in 2006, before I bought it back in 2011....
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