The Doyen of Car Modelers… BBC interview

[Matt Bacon]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/miniature-car-models/zn9jcqt

I expect more than a few of us have Gerard Wingrove’s books, and quite a few more have heard of him. Very much of its time, but worth 9 minutes of yours if you’re interested…

best,

M.

[Bugatti Fan]

Matt, that BBC programme reminded me of when I visited Gerald Wingrove and he showed me around his workshop featured in it. That was his first workshop, built in his garden at Flackwell Heath, High Wycombe at the time. It was shortly after he went professional having left his old job as a Centre Lathe Turner at Broome and Wade. He moved up to Digby in Lincolnshire with his second wife Phyllis who became an active partner in his business. Upon retirement he auctioned off a lot of his assorted odd stuff, moved to Spain and carried on making models as a hobby. He was working on a model of a composite ship, The Falls Of Clyde when he died. The remaining car models he had and the partly made Falls  Of Clyde, plus many of his special tools that he designed and made were bequeathed to the Clyde Maritime Museum in Glasgow. I do not know if any of it is on public display of not at present or still in storage awaiting to be sorted out for permanent exhibition.

[Ace-Garageguy]

Thanks.