From: Gernot Vonhoegen <gv2@findhorn.stir.ac.uk>
To: "'triumph@autox.team.net'" <triumph@autox.team.net>
Subject: RE: Taxman & fens
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 21:00:22 -0000
The date is...now you have guessed yourself, the first of January.
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> From: Jonathan Butler[SMTP:j-butler@dircon.co.uk]
> Reply To: Jonathan Butler
> Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 1998 11:12 PM
> To: David Laver
> Cc: british-cars-pre-war@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Taxman & fens
>
> David & All,
>
> You are quite right - the 25 yr exemption will not apply to cars after
> a
> date in 1973 and what the date is I cannot recall although I have read
> it
> somewhere. In my view a petty meanness.
> Sorry about your Fiat however!!
>
> My brother of Speedy fame was Clarkes PPS when the tax was removed and
> this was
> one of his better ideas. He reckoned that it cost more to process the
> amount
> raised from older cars than the taxman received but I cannot think
> this
> is
> true. Apparently there was considerable opposition from the DoT to the
> idea
> at the time and the change in the last budget may I suppose be a move
> towards
> the loss of this concession. Since last May he has been otherwise
> employed
> of course.
>
> The fen winds are as you say David but on the occassion the bicycle
> passed my
> 12/6 it was a sunny hot day in August and still!!. Although it was 30
> yrs ago
> I remember the witty but unkind comments of my student "friends" from
> the
> rear seats. That was an early (March 1931) 3 speed 12/6 with a fabric
> coupling
> in the propshaft to ensure it never ran true. I sold to a fellow in
> Grantham
> around 1974 who I understand rebuilt it as in one of those strange
> coincidences
> in 1980 I was gossiping on 3.5 mc/s as Radio Amateurs do when it
> turned
> out that
> I was talking to his brother. Not heard of it since so if anyone
> sights
> JF 1670 I may still have some bits in the shed!.
>
> David, your autojumble comments are spot on. I usually buy something
> which I
> then fall over or find in the way for about 5 yrs then throw away in a
> temper
> to reduce the clutter or give to someone who I later find did'nt
> really
> want
> it and has sold it to a friend of mine!.
>
> Enough from me - work to do
>
> Jonathan Butler
>
>
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