A life of Riley

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Sir,

I am the owner of a 1933 Riley 9 Lynx four-door open tourer, registration OC 99, which I understand to have been a well known amateur hillclimb car, chiefly in the Midlands during the late 1930s and early 1940s. I have a Riley Record magazine dated October 1944 where it is pictured on the front cover with the caption Riley Motor Club Trial, High Button.

I wonder if any of your readers could tell me where High Button is or was (I believe it was in the Cotswolds, near Broadway, and may also be called Fish Hill) or whether anyone recalls any pre-1950 registration number. I believe it was rallied by a Mr TG Restall, whose firm manufactured and supplied many of the seats for new pre-war cars including Rileys. Any help from any readers would be much appreciated.

Clifford H Williams.

Bristol.