For those who remember the stage and film stars of

old: in the1930s Max Miller had a Standard Swallow, ‘Wee’ Georgie Wood a 15.7hp Crossley, Binnie Hale a six-cylinder Standard, Elsie Randolph of the Co-Optimists a Swift Ten, and film producer Carlyle Blackwell a Big Six Bentley. Of other celebrities, Capt Broad, the Duchess of Bedford’s pilot on the African flight, used a Rover, A W Carr, captain of the English cricket team, a Rover Meteor, pioneer aviator Grahame White a Rolls-Royce New Phantom, film star Gladys Jennings an18/55 Fiat and the Earl of Devon a Marmon.