I read the 1942 article on YF 1396 with great, great interest since I bought it, with its original UK plates, in 1953 from Chipstead Motors in London, drove it all over Europe, (very un-restored!), over the Alps as far south as Venice and Rome, then back to London, via the Corniche, Avignon and Calais, where I could not part with it and brought it to the U.S.