I have not posted on this Forum before, but I have been asked by a work colleague if I can find out any more about the vehicle in the photograph below.
My friend's great-uncle, who is driving this car, was Walter Ernest Ellis and was born in the mid-1890s. He was believed to have been apprenticed into the motor trade in London and so was driving vehicles at a very young age, eventually joining the Army in WW1 and serving, from about almost the start of the War, as a driver. I believe that the car in the prhotograph, taken c1915, is of a 12/16hp Sunbeam, possibly one of the cars built under contract by The Rover Company. These are quite frequently seen in photographs and film of the period but if anyone has any further suggestions, please feel free to contribute. My friend would also like to discover if his relative may have driven for a specific senior officer or whether it is more likey that he was in a "pool" of drivers. The vehicle bears the military fleet number of M (WD arrow) 70010. Does anyone know if there is a UK archive that would be able to provide further details from this number?
