
Cars & Churchill: Blood, Sweat & Gears (1) Mors the Pity
Having written about cars and Winston Churchill for fifty years, I finally produced a piece on them both. From exotica like Mors, Napier and Rolls-Royce to more prosaic makes like Austin, Humber and Wolseley, the story was three decades in coming. But I am satisfied that it is now complete.
Part 1:
Excerpt only. For footnotes, illustrations and a roster of cars, see The Automobile, August 2016.
Mors the PityAlways fascinated by new technology, Winston Churchill welcomed the motorcar, buying his first in 1901 at the age of twenty-six. It was French Mors—one of only two non-British cars Churchill would ever own—and a disappointment.…