| Newsome-Avon
SS100 in USA
This photograph
of the Newsome-Avon SS100 DHC was taken in 1968.
Photo courtesy of Dick
Strever's website
I have interrogated
Paul Newsome, one of our committee members, to see what he call
recall of this car. The story goes like this:
His father, Sammy
Newsome, ran a successful Motor dealership in Coventry before World
War two. They sold Standard and SS ( and other marques) and
Sammy raced SS100's in competition. He was also friendly with
William Lyons and tried to persuade him to build other variations of
the SS100. This, Bill Lyons was reluctant to do, so Sammy set about
it himself. He sketched out the specification and outline of the car
that he wanted and went to Avon coachworks in Warwick to ask them to
build it. They turned his sketches into complete bodywork and
mounted it on SS100 chassis bought in from Lyons. Two cars were
completed and you can follow the
story of one of them by following this link.
My thanks go to Peter
Lee, who informed me of this site in the USA:
If anyone knows what
happened to the other car, please tell us about it on the Standard Forum
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