Rare Morris rebuild is on
The Cunard Motor and Carriage Company was formed in 1911, and taken over by the British Weymann Company in 1925. Resurrected in 1930, it was bought by Stewart and Arden, the London Morris agent, after which most of its work was special bodies on Morris chassis.
In 1934, it bodied a number of 10/6 Morris Specials, one of which competed in the 1935 Montecarlo Rally, but few survive. One, AVR 645, came up for sale last year as part of a collection of barn-finds from the estate of the late Harold Rackham. The logbook, dated 1965, shows the car as being owned by Geoffrey Talbot of Buxton, and in 1968 by John Symondson of Edgware. Rackham bought it in 1980, planning to restore it, but little work was done. Morris Register member Nick Casburn, who has recently finished the restoration of a Morris Eight tourer, purchased it and the rebuild is now under way.