Classics Monthly

GRAHAM ROBSON THE FAMILY CONSUL

It’s only today that my mind slipped back to events in March 1953. Although that was exactly 67 years ago, I still have copies of The Autocar which remind me that this was the month in which the definitive Triumph TR2 first appeared, when Rootes first showed the Sunbeam Alpine, and when Ian Appleyard won the RAC rally for the second time using that legendary Jaguar XK120 which carried the NUB 120 plates. Not that the Robson family was really interested in those events at

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