Sir,<\/p>\n
Being born just after the event, I was totally ignorant of the matters referred to in the article headed “Those Tax Concessions” in your October 1977 issue. However, I read it and found it of interest, as I do most of the articles in the wide spectrum of motoring matters you cover.<\/p>\n
Accordingly, when I was later shown a part of the Grimsby Evening Telegraph<\/em> for June 18th 1947 on a totally unrelated topic, a story about the Grimsby firm of Lloyd Cars Ltd. and the effect of the Tax changes was doubly interesting as I knew the background to the story.<\/p>\n The firm of I.loyd Cars Ltd. is still in existence in the same premises but is now concerned with engineering and plating rather than the construction of cars, although I believe it was involved with some Formula One work some years ago. The firm is now run by Michael Dolly, who is, I believe, the nephew of Roland Lloyd, this gentleman used to be involved in 750 MC racing and in 1972 was driving a Rover 14. At that time he was also interested in Fairground Organs, though I have not spoken to him since.<\/p>\n There was still a Lloyd van in this area in regular use until about ten years ago and there are one or two examples of the cars but they are not often seen. I understand the firm is very helpful to current Lloyd car owners.<\/p>\n As owner of a 1937 Austin Seven Opel and a Mk.I1 Ford Cortina-Lotus I enjoy your Magazine for the diversity of matters it covers (reading also Motoring News for its coverage of Rallies and Autotests). However I was disappointed to see no mention of the fabulous Austin Seven Club’s Association Jubilee Rally to the Isle of Man this summer. I realize Sevens are not Rolls-Royces but this was a truly sporting event, encompassing as it did a reliability run (around the TT course), a hillclimb (Tholt-y-Will) a cross-country run, a driving test and a Concours D’Elegance<\/em>, with some 100 Austins taking part. It even had sponsorship, (fortunately low-key) by “7 up”! Perhaps you could mention it, if only to thank the organisers for an excellent do.<\/p>\n New Waltham NORMAN GREEN<\/p>\n (The then Chancellor of Exchequer, Mr. Dalton, had just introduced the \u00a310 flat-rate tax in 1947, when Roland Lloyd was announcing his 650 c.c. two-stroke car. “What difference is an additional spread over 12 months, going to make to the cost of running a car that will do 50 to 60 m.p.g.?” he asked. In fact, his new model qualified for the 25\/. concession, making the tax on it \u00a38.151-, had he realised it! See page 1236 of MOTOR SPORT for November 1977 -concessions still in force. -Ed.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":739,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[],"tags":[167,3058,66885,115471,190,1511,88810],"issue_decade":[121607],"issue_year":[121658],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/32124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/issue_content"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/739"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/32124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245754,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/32124\/revisions\/245754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32124"},{"taxonomy":"issue_decade","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_decade?post=32124"},{"taxonomy":"issue_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_year?post=32124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}