Day 43 1/8/19 Manchester to Royston, near Canterbury)

Left Claire and Norman for a day today to travel to Royston (near Melbourn {no “E”} of all places) near Canterbury.

Most of the photo’s will therefore be of sights along the road. The trip took about 4 hours, including a stop for lunch. There where quite a few roadworks along the way so this made the trip a bit slower but the traffic wasn’t to bad.

As we had plenty of time, we wanted to avoid Tolls, so our route took us via the M6, the A500, the A50, M1 and then the A14. To collect Richard Tonkin’s TA14, Maud.

Then we went back along the A14 to the M11, traffic was terrible but Maud handled it without a qualm, and A11 to our accommodation.

You come across some interesting intersections

Some cooling towers

And a little further along some more

And then still more

The journey went from the traffic above to the relaxed swan in this shot

Maud is a 1948 TA14 bodied by Arthur Mead, a rather interesting vehicle. Due to the shortage of materials after the War, Arthur Mead came across a number, 10 I think, of Tickford bodies built for MG before the war but not used. He purchased these and adapted them to the TA14 chassis. This gives the car a unique prewar appearance with post war running gear. The car is a delight to drive and very well behaved. Will report more over the next few days.