Wood & Picket Info

[hanlminiman]

Any news on how it went yesterday! Where have all the results gone? They seem a bit coy!

[WPWERKS]

Hello

Sadly the car did not meet the reserve on the day & didn’t sell. Surprised?

[Pandora]

Not sure who did this hatchback, but it's part of a set taken by John Ross (who died recently) at Speedwell, though the timing is out for the others in the set.

http://www.johnrossmotorracingarchive.c ... set=0,72#2

Worth looking at some of the other great photos from the '50s & 60s too.

Al

[hanlminiman]

An interesting hatchback on a 1967/8 registered Mk2 with the size of the hinges suggesting it is a lighter version, glass fibre or maybe alloy, pickup hinges? The dashboard layout is similar to Radford's Mk2 with an enlarged row of dash panel switches above the original panel which was enlarged for fitting the radio. Enlarging the image reveals what looks like a 2 tone rectangular badge like Radford used. The door windows look like Tilling. Is it the car pictures in a London park which appeared on the web some time ago? Could it be the shell which was displayed at the Goodwood Revival a few years ago?
Cliff

[WMU 211G]

Looks like the photo might have been taken in a Mews somewhere Cliff, the reg' number is a London mark. Were those hinges common on Radford hatchbacks..?

[UHR850]

Original bootlid hinges

Kees

[hanlminiman]

Looks like the photo might have been taken in a Mews somewhere Cliff, the reg' number is a London mark. Were those hinges common on Radford hatchbacks..?

Thinking about the car more and the 67/68 registration plate it is possible that it was one of the first cars produced by HRC (1967) Ltd which acquired the original company in October 1967 after it went into administration. Eddie Collins left in 1966 I think and there was another salesman whose name I can't remember at the moment who I think operated from a mews premises in Mayfair area, close to Hyde Park where I think the earlier image was taken; next to the Serpentine?
Cliff

[Pete]

Looks like it was photographed outside Sprinzel's place (understandably), not a Radford way of hinging the hatch and looks like a Sprinzel badge on it. Mk2 998 Cooper?

[hanlminiman]

Perhaps the car was a development vehicle as I've just noticed it is a full hatchback to the boot lower aperture profile but the B registered car featured in CCC had a shorter hatchback and an upstanding, presumably for strength, as in the Elkins car shown at the Goodwood. The design of the roof where the hinges are attached does not look very strong especially without the rear gutter. I have read somewhere that Collins had no faith in hatchback conversions, maybe this is the vehicle which convinced him. I wish I could remember the name of the other guy involved in a Mews operation.
We now need Inspector Cluseau to investigate further! I do love a mystery and the power of the internet for finding historic pictures.

[UHR850]

Know nothing about this one, just found the picture on the internet.

Kees.

[WMU 211G]

Found this the other day, same car...

W&P WICKER CLUBMAN.jpg

[mab01uk]

The villain Cooper S had wickerwork side panels, (didn't it Len?)

Yes...

Villain - FRIDAY 3rd April 2020 - Talking Pictures TV - (Freeview 81, Sky 328, Virgin 445, Freesat 306)
"At 10pm Richard Burton stars in Villain (1971), playing an everyday London businessman and sadistic gang leader; Once you've met, you'll wish you hadn't, also with Ian McShane and Nigel Davenport. Director: Michael Tuchner.
https://talkingpicturestv.co.uk/schedule/

[mab01uk]

found this picture somewhere on the internet.



Kees.

An amazing full restoration of the almost lost ex-Gerald Ronson 1977 Wood & Pickett Margrave VYN 77S to it's former glory, is featured in the September issue of MCR CooperWorld magazine.
https://www.minicooper.org/cooperworld-magazine/

[WPWERKS]

Gerald Ronson purchased a few other Margraves. The other surviving car is a metallic brown GT. He bought it at the Earls Court Motor Show when it was that years show car. Same car is featured in that lovely BBC archive Blue Peter clip. Luckily it has a copy of it’s Park Royal “show car” build sheet & importantly still has it’s 12” SL mag wheels, they’re a hard find these days. Only seem to see 10” SL’s on eBay.

[mab01uk]

1976 Wood & Pickett Mini Margrave 1275
"Presented in Bentley Walnut and Cream Everflex, a real head-turner
In current ownership since 1987 some 30 plus years
Comprehensive restoration some years ago and still superb to this day
Retaining all of its original W&P accoutrements
1275cc engine, S Disc brakes, Wolfrace Alloys, electric windows, picnic tables and a full-length Webasto roof complete the picture
Magazine featured in Mini World December 2019 - copy included."
https://www.silverstoneauctions.com/eve ... grave-1275

[UHR850]

I found these pictures I took at the IMM in Zurich 1985.

Kees

[mab01uk]

DVLA says not taxed on UK roads since 1983.

AYA 999B
✗ Untaxed
Tax due: 1 May 1983
MOT No results returned
Vehicle Details
Vehicle make MORRIS
Date of first registration September 1964
Year of manufacture 1964
Cylinder capacity 1275 cc
Fuel type PETROL
Export marker No
Vehicle status Untaxed
Vehicle colour BLACK
Wheelplan 2 AXLE RIGID BODY
Date of last V5C (logbook) issued 23 October 1979

[JC T ONE]

I am not the only one that get a Christmas present this year, just found this little gem =

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAAD4Vp9lZE

[mab01uk]

Photo taken in 1970 by Tony Hall inside Wood & Pickett at Park Royal, West London

1969. Wood & Pickett, Mini Cooper - Tony Hall
"I drive over to Wood & Pickett with Lionel Hawkes in May 1969 to have a look around the workshops. In 1968 Wood & Pickett fitted a tinted rear window into my Mini Cooper. I had tinted perspex windows cut to size for the side windows by another company just up the road from Hammersmith Palais, in Shepherd's Bush Road, before driving to Rome with Roger Tidd. Here we are being shown how the body and engine of 'Margrave' Mini Cooper is re-built."
Wood & Pickett, Abbey Road, Park Royal, London, N.W.10
https://www.tonyhall.co/1970/02/wood-pi ... mJR4i1Gwb4

[mab01uk]