My Transport

Photographs submitted by members showing their earlier means of transport:

How about starting with Our Chairman, Dave Stedman - circa 1956..

Robin and Dorothy Frost on board their DIY Train!!

George Heath standing by his Standard 8 with the Rottingdean windmill in the background and his dream car,

a Triumph Roadster, with Glenys just visible in the passenger seat,

George Heath on his triumph motor cycle wearing his Parachute Regiment Red Beret and goggles...no helmets in those days.

This is David Ritson-Smith with his paternal grandmother in about 1958 when he was 4

and taken before houses had chimneys garnished with TV aerials! 

Derek Duncanson on his first mode of transport, a tricycle!!!! and trying his hand at go-kartng.

Three photos from Rosemary Hall showing her on a donkey taken in about 1946 and on her brothers Vespa scooter taken in about 1957. The car, a Morris 8 was bought in 1959 and sold a year later at the same price. Rosemary took the photo and Al is at the wheel.

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These two photographs are of Judy Cheesman, on the left Judy riding her pony in 1947 and on the right on her bicycle in 1948

This is Philip Cheesman (on the right) with his brother on his tricycle in 1942

Mike Brett couldn't find a photo with himself in it, but has sent this photo of his first car, a 1961 VW Beetle purchased in 1964.

Mike recalls he has had about 22 cars during his lifetime, one of which, a Ford Cortina 2000E, he sold to me (Don Semmons)

Mid-Sussex Chairman, Stephen Barnett showing off his horse riding skills and is it a tractor?

Our former secretary Jean Clarke with her Fiat 850 Coupe taken in about 1963.

This is Esme Melhuish, second from the right, on a mechanical elephant in Beach House Park, Worthing, in about 1950

 Esme did not really want to go on but had to take her cousin sitting on her left!!

This is Judy Cheesman with their first car, an Austin A40 Somerset, that Philip and Judy bought between them just before they were married in 1963.

The Semmons family on a day out in about 1949..yes that is me on the left and my sister Pat next to me.. 

I am reliably informed that my dad's car is an Austin 7 Box Saloon made about 1932. The rear window was made of lino!

This is Pat Jarvis (nee Semmons) on her tricycle outside the family home in Broadwater in about 1950

This is Philip Cheesman trying his hand at wind surfing in the South of France

during the mid 1970's when it was all the thing to do!!

Whether you could call this a means of transport is debateable.....

Roger Francis's 1936 Morris 8 - Identical to John Tucknott's (See photo below) but 2 years older.  Bought for £50 in 1959.   

6000 miles and one year later sold for £25 minus its sunroof which blew off crossing Ditchling Common on a windy day - possibly still there somewhere in the gorse bushes.

John Tucknott's first car, a 1938 Morris 8, bought in 1960 for £25.00 and sold for the same sum a year later.

John's second car, probably his favourite, a 1955 MG Magnette ZA which he owned from about 1966 to 1976.

It could only be David Titcomb whose first mode of transport was a donkey when he was about 5.

Although a bit blurry, David still didn't have a car, but borrowed his dads car an "Austin Cambridge"

this is them outside Rae's Mum and Dads bungalow in Worthing about 1965.....

Still no car, but somewhere in the Solent, here is David rowing three crew members back to the "Spread Eagle" a 32' 6" sailing cruiser that was owned by the "Barclays Bank Sailing Club"... On the stern are Patrick Field and his wife Jayne and at the bow, Richard Clark.

And still no car!!!, but here is David  sailing his  "Mirror Dinghy" that he made from a kit about
50 years ago!!!

Bob Russell on his trike…probably taken in 1943!!!!!

Tony Comber bought the orange Mini in 1979 and sold it in 2013 having done over 80,000 miles in it. It was Joyces car although he did also drive it. He bought the yellow one while they had the orange one restored, which took about 2 years. The yellow one was made in 1978. Neither of them ever broke down over all that time. Incidentally, the registration number of the yellow mini was F389ART.

Tony Comber bought the TVR Griffith 500 in 1996 and sold it 9 years later in 2005.

It had a 5 litre V8 engine in a fibre glass body so was very fast 0…60 in 4.1 secs.

Tony pictured with his other brother Peter, sadly no longer with us.

He had several super trips across Europe especially in the Alps. He thought he had better sell it before he died in it!! 

Philip Cheesman polishing his Lambretta in 1959

Philip & Judy Cheesman on the Downs Link Path in 2015

Philip on his new E-Bike in 2017

David Comber on his 50cc Suzuki, which he used to ride to school in 1965,

saving him a 45 minute ride on the school bus.

Derek Duncanson on holiday in Zakynthos around 1987.

Rick Harvey on his Scooter about 1949/50

Rick Harvey with his Morris Minor in 1970’s

Taken on Richard Lewis's wedding day in 1965. The car is a Lagonda (c1905)

& driven by its owner, my wife Heathers father

Don Semmons on his tricycle, wearing some really smart sandals!!!!

Estimate of year photo taken, 1951

Don Semmons with new Honda 150 Twin motorcycle in 1964

 that replaced a Vespa Scooter, his first mechanised transport.

Gavin Elliot on his new Harley Davison in about 2001.

Having previously owned a 900cc Kawasaki sports bike

Gavin decided he needed something more sedate for cruising!

The slim! and with hair!! proud owner of PGV 564 is David Ritson-Smith. It is a 1960 Ford Popular 100E which he was given for his 18th birthday in March 1972. He passed his test 3 months later - 3rd attempt - and was able to drive it to work when he started in the Bank at Horsham in September 1972.  The car had a long floor mounted gearstick and vacuum operated windscreen wipers which were very slow going uphill but went like the clappers when going downhill. Happy days.

After David left the Bank in 2000 he moved to Cornwall and became a bus driver from 2001-11.

Here he is driving the 595 bus arriving at Bude in 2007.