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Our Man in the North recently called on the genial Bob Kaye, proprietor of Norths of Leeds, in the pretty Yorkshire village of Sherburn in Elmet. Bob is probably the most widely known of the many psv specialist dealers in that part of the world—and incidentally has graced the classified columns of this journal for 45 years or so.
Only a few readers will know of his other activities which go on in the huge sheds and hangars at Sherburn. Bob is a vintage Leyland and Dennis fire-engine restorer extraordinary and also provides double-deckers to be used as grandstands at the annual Bramham Park three-day Horse Show, held at the magnificent country home of Col Lane-Fox.
Now Bob has formed a new company called Bygone Transport Ltd, and has restored ' a landau built by Atkinson Phillipson, of Newcastle, in about 1890. This he hires out for weddings and Lord Mayors' processions and the like. His four horses, though, cannot enjoy the spring-turf luxury of Newmarket or Lambourne. They take their exercise on the Great North Road.