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Rex Forecar identified

Reference the photograph of the doubtful ‘Quadrant Forecar’ published on page 85, August 2020 issue of TCM. I have been pondering over this, as it looked familiar. I am pretty certain it is the late Ron Shaw with his 1903 Rex Forecar. Ron had owned the Rex for many years entering both the RAC London to Brighton and Sunbeam MCC’s Pioneer Run on/with it.

An unusual feature of the front seat is that the footwell folds back over the passenger seat and was painted to look like a dummy front end of a four-wheeled veteran car.

Chris Booth, the Morgan Museum, Rovelden, Kent.

Thank you, Chris, for putting me out of my misery. Like you, I knew I’d seen the subject forecar, but other than stab at a Rover – which I knew it wasn’t – I couldn’t remember the who, what and where. Now you have reminded me, I realise my grey cells are struggling, as I had photographed Ron Shaw’s Rex in