If you dig through the events that occurred across the world in September 1954, your findings throw into sharp focus just how different life was back then. Eager listeners were tuning into the wireless to hear the final instalment of The Lone Ranger, the Miss America pageant was broadcast for the first time, William Golding’s Lord of the Flies was published; Judy Garland’s cinematic comeback in A Star is Born pioneered the Technicolour format, while the music press was murmuring about an up-and-coming new talent by the name of Elvis Presley. British kids were reading about Roy of the Rovers in the Tiger comic, while their parents tuned into a new sketch show called Running Wild, featuring a pair of fresh-faced young talents named Morecombe and Wise.
Over in West Germany, a right-hand drive Barndoor Samba was rolling off the production line on September 6th 1954, destined for export to Denmark. History doesn’t record why a Danish
