The traveling policeman and his trusty Morris

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This is certainly not the best quality photograph we've seen here. But since every picture comes with a story, we think it definitely is worth sharing here. In fact the story of this particular image is rather intriguing.

Peter Huson sent it over to us and added the following: "In May 1955 a member of the B.S.A. Police and his wife drove their Morris Oxford Station wagon from Salisbury (UK - edit, not UK but Salisbury, Rhodesia?) to Ethiopia and back. The trip over roads which in places were unbelievably appalling took three months including holiday excursions en route. On their return he wrote "And so we returned to Salisbury. Thankful in particular for the splendid performance of our car, we hurried to offload and, with a sense of mutual relief, watched the springs resume their rightful shape... after three months of inversion. The engine had never faltered throughout the 9,000 miles of the tour, nor failed on any occasion to start with the very first turn of the self-starter. What more can one say in acknowledgment? The car did all that was asked of her and much more than we had the right to expect."

The rather grainy photograph is of the car in Mogadishu in what used to be Italian Somaliland.
Thank you very much for that. We'd love to learn a little bit more about the travelling policeman, his wife and the Morris. Perhaps it rings a bell with somebody here?

(Words and archive picture Peter Huson)

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