MY story and pictures on September 18, headed "Early days of cars in Bolton", concentrating on the firms of Gordons, and Bradley, brought a letter from Mr Keith Moran, of Clough Flats, Heywood.
"I was interested to see the photographs of the Model T Fords in the early part of the last century", he writes. One Bury firm for which I worked in the 1960s still stocked a coil unit for a 1911 Ford.
"Model Ts were notoriously fickle with a puncture every 30 miles or so, and if you did not slow down to 'dead slow' on bends, you turned over.
"From my point of view, I was glad to see the pictures, because recently I was asked by a 17-years-old girl if the Model T was real. She thought it was a Walt Disney creation!
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