fabulous images , and interesting to me in a roundabout way. my late step-father was an RAF MT then joined the RAF Regiment and despite never have been aircrew racked up more hours in nimrods (the comet derived sub hunter/awac) than lots of actual aircrew. he was always blagging "jollies" , even receiving memorials for his 1000/2000 hours etc. i still have a small access panel that he "acquired" from one of the last serving aircraft.
It's a Comet fuselage, being towed through the centre of Chester. Apparently a small number of these were built at Shorts in Belfast, shipped across to Ellesmere Port and sent by road to what is now the Airbus factory in Hawarden. At the time, the Chester ring-road wasn't built, so the only option was to drive through the city centre.
This led to some discussion in the pub as to what route it took to get to that point, because further around the corner in the back of the photo there's either a very sharp left turn up towards the town hall, or going straight along there is Eastgate - the one with the clock on it.
This other photo I found on-line shows that they were brought under Eastgate, as this view from under the clock shows, with WH Smiths on the left hand side. Clever of those Romans to make sure the gate was large enough to fit a plane fuselage under it. I wonder what they'd have done if it wasn't.
So guess the car from the interior then - its obviously been customised but given the handbrake & auto gear selector look like Ford to me - rake of the windscreen and the shape of that rear quarter glass points me in the direction of a Mk1 Capri
This was our local outfit as a kid growing up in Salford in the late '50s, early '60s.
Proper ice cream, originally with horse and cart
I remember when "Mr Whippy" first started trying to flog their pumped snot, we'd follow the van and sing along with the chimes. "Whippy's ice cream, tastes like Brylcreem!"
I like the art deco style of the showroom / garage as much as I like the car
Now Oxford Crown & Magistrates Court complex. It must have been a heck of an impressive dealership, especially considering it wasn't dealing with a prestige marque.