Research roundup (April 2021)

Research
Written By Richard A Roberts.

Requests come in all the time – and we can usually help. Here are some successes since the beginning of 2021:

Spyker

Spyker car adverts for an article being written by Fons Alkemade.

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Caffyns car dealership

Caffyns car dealership adverts for an article written by Richard Roberts for the SAHB Times, the quarterly magazine of the Society of Automotive Historians in Britain.

Caffyn's Car Dealership 1900s photograph

Thames

Thames car adverts from the early 20th century, for an article being written by Malcolm Bobbitt.

Castrol

A Castrol advert featuring the world land speed record car Golden Arrow, for the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu (where the car resides) to use in a forthcoming exhibition.

wakefield castrol motor-oil vintage landspeed record poster sir henry segrave 1929

Your research projects

Do you have a research project that you would like us to assist you with? Or perhaps you would like to book a space in our reading room for your own research? Contact us today using the form below or email richardrobertsarchive@gmail.com.

Richard A Roberts.

Richard is a mechanical engineer and former information technology project manager who first became interested in advertising of all kinds in the early 2000s.

His interest turned to a passion that has led to his founding of the Richard Roberts Archive – an important collection of magazines and their advertisements from the early years of the nineteenth century to the present day. The archive has been converted from Richard’s private collection to a publicly accessible research centre.

He is a director of the Society of Automotive Historians in Britain and is its archive consultant. He has owned several Rolls-Royce Silver Shadows and a rare 1956 James Young Silver Cloud saloon.

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