 Val Zethrin liked his 1935 Squire so much, he bought the company. Okay, it didn't quite happen that way, but it's a good story. Zethrin was one of the lucky few to own an example of Adrian Squire's schoolboy fantasy sports car. Just seven examples of these rakish, supercharged Anzani-engined cars were built over the course of two years by Squire and his team. When Zethrin's car was delivered in January, 1936, the firm only had a few short months left before it ceased trading. When the firm was liquidated, he paid the grand sum of £500 for the company's assets, mainly as a way of securing valuable spare parts that he knew would soon become impossible to source, but he also reckoned he could revive the name and build at least a few more Squire motor cars. In fact, Zethrin only kept his own Ranalah-bodied, long-wheelbase car until 1937, and his attempt to re-start Squire production came to nothing. It had not been the best of business decisions, as he would later admit. The car itself has now been fully restored to its original specification after suffering the privations of a spirited competition career and decades of neglect by subsequent owners. You can read the full story in the latest issue of The Automobile, which is out now. (text Scott Barrett; photos Stefan Marjoram) |
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Zethrin's Squire
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