Touring Suffolk in 1922 in a Standard SLS 2 seater.

By Phil Homer

Standard Motor Club Historian

Alan Mackley has sent me this superb period photo, which I have identified as a Standard Model SLS, 2 seater, which has had an accident in a Suffolk lane in 1922.

Unfortunately, this has resulted in the rear end of the Standard in a ditch. Two gentlemen are trying to help. Could the horse be a Suffolk Punch, I wonder if it has been called in to assist?

The car was on a week-long 430-mile tour of rural churches and was driven by Ms Gooch, who is seen eating her lunch in the photo.

Her passenger was 19-year-old Janet Becker, who kept a record of the event in her diary and must have taken the photo. To my mind, it must have been quite unusual for 2 unescorted ladies to drive around East Anglia shortly after the Great War. I wonder how many others were so plucky?

Alan tells me that Ms Becker’s illustrated diaries are being edited with a view to publication. If I hear news of this I will publish it here.

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