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[Roland Young]

 Hi all! Thanks Alan for the lead on Roverpart of London. I finally contacted Gordon and he emailed me a note that he is still in business and was looking forward to retiring, but stated his customers won't let him. Nice to know he is still around to help folks.
Roland
    On Monday, January 24, 2022, 06:16:12 AM PST, Alan Francis via Rovernet <rovernet at rovernet.org> wrote:  
 
 Roland,
Great story and a part of the world known very well to myself as you were lucky enough to pass very close to Selhurst Park, the home of the mighty Crystal Palace Football Club. :) May I use your story, with an appropriate acknowledgement, in my "Rovernet History" feature I'm writing for the P6 Club magazine?Roverpart is still trading via Ebay though he closed the shop some time ago and trades from his house in South Croydon about four miles away. His username is Roverpart_of_London 
Glen Wilson if you're reading this I'd still like to get something down about the radio interview I managed to arrange when you were trying to find the history of your P4 about 18 years ago, are you still planning to get something to me? No great hurry, I'm aiming for the June issue so I would like to finish the article early May. Plus any other anecdotes of course.

Lance Le Certe I'm afraid Wadhams does have a fantastic ability to polarize opinions and there seems to be no middle ground. The divisions really are complete opposites with some, like yourself experiencing poor service and/or parts with others saying what a great experience they've had and how good his parts are.No easy answers other than taking your business elsewhere. 

Best Regards
Alan Francis


On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 12:34 AM Roland Young via Rovernet <rovernet at rovernet.org> wrote:

Hi rover folks! My memory was jogged back when Wadhams was mentioned recently. I thought I would tell my Rover Adventure as I do not believe I've ever mentioned it. Here we go.
It was around 2000 and was going to visit London, meeting up with my wife that was on a business trip to India and then the UK. One of the places I wanted to visit was Roverpart of London. We it was time for me to go, my wife asked me to take on of the kids with me and she would take the other to Harrod's. Ok, so with young child in tow, I went down to the train station and bought a couple of BR tickets. I asked the platform agent which track for Norwood Junction and he asked, "What do you want to go there for?" My daughter gave me the side eye at that time. We arrived in NJ and went looking for Whitehorse Lane and came upon Roverpart of London. I spoke to the owner (Mark?) and bought quite a few things, Rover 3L Brochure, amber turn lenses (my red ones were faded and the amber ones were 1/2 the price. I also bought a replacement steering wheel. The owner, told me to hurry, it was starting to get dark and that I should return to the train station. He mentioned how surprised his wife was in moving there as she had come from Cornwall. I guess Cornwall is a less gritty town. We did get on the train before dark and we got many quzzical looks from other passengers while we sat there holding a steering wheel. 
Fast forward to going back to the states: Seems there were a lot of issues with BA that day and that our luggage was going to be on a separate flight and if I can identify 3 items in my luggage so they can get it back to me. He stopped me at steering wheel. Yes, we were reunited with our luggage. It was a very good trip as I was able to go to the autojumble at Ally Pally that trip and we went to Lemington Spa so we could go to the History Museum in Gaydon. We stayed at the "Manor Inn"(?). That was also funny as we took a bus from Lemington Spa and dropped off at the entrance to the Museum. It's probably a 1/4 mile from the road to the museum and the site of the four of us walking on the road. The guards felt bad for us and give us a ride in a golfcart to the entrance. I wish I had more time there as I spent some time looking up my 3L and found it in the books and ordered the build sheet. I also bought "In The Rover Tradition" video. On the way back we could not remember which direction we came from, so my wife and oldest stayed on one side of the road and my youngest and I stayed on the other. We flagged down a bus and he told us it's not an offical stop and that if we were still there on his way back he would pick us up. He did and we made it back to Lemington Spa safe and sound. Hope I didn't bore everyone.
Cheers.
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