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[Alan Francis]

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.
>
> Roland
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