These petrol vans appear to have solid tyres and ‘spoke-type’ wheel-format in the ‘horse-wagon’ style, very much as did the ex-WW1 wagon on the preceding page-but-one. I must see what I can do to enlarge the images of the staff seen here with their road-going charges. It would be nice to have a better idea of that generation of Oxford’s people. Presumably some had fought-in and survived the Great War, though I have no records nor any recollecition of this ever having been said.
This is the decade in which my father, Frederick George Blake Archer joined the firm in 1926 at age 21, having worked for (probably) about 5 or 6 years at his ‘great-uncle Blake’s’ furnishing shop in Little Clarendon Street. And it is 11 years before I (Phil Archer) was born in 1941.