Last weeks quiz was about a sweet little thing that was built in the UK. Although, there aren't still many of those cars around we received quite some good answers. But what was it exactly. Well, first the story behind the pictures. By Michael Ware:Wade Ceramics of Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire have been making ceramic items since 1810. A glance at their products on Google shows a tremendous variety, mainly of popular and collectable designs. c1962 they brought out a series of dishes featuring veteran cars. These were known as tyre dishes as the edge of the dish was given a tyre-like design. As far as I can make out they did a series of veteran cars which includes the Darracq and Spyker from "Genevieve", a Model T Ford, Itala, baby Peugeot and Rolls-Royce (probably AX 201). This series of plates (and a series on mugs) were marked on the base "Design authenticated by the Veteran Car Club of Great Britain". I believe they also did a series of commercial vehicles as well.
Richard Skinner who runs restoration company Tudor Wheels of Romsey Hampshire was in a local charity shop and saw one of the dishes and promptly bought it. This was slightly different to others as it features a 1909 Little Briton and did not have the VCC authentication. Instead on the front appeared the words "First production of Tractor Spares Ltd Wolverhampton".