Famous Plate Returns Home

Bill Spence of Kirkwall in Orkney is the proud new owner of BS 1. Bill said: “Not only is the plate to mark 100 years of my shipbroking and stevedoring company, John Jolly but also, I am glad to say, BS 1 is finally coming home to Orkney where it was first registered on 15 March 1904.

Of course it is also my initials too. It looks fantastic on my Jaguar XK8. I have been looking through the old Orkney records in the Kirkwall Archive to establish its provenance.

“It was originally assigned to William MacLennan of Grainbank who held the registration for 8 years until 1912 when John McEwan, Rector of Kirkwall Grammar School, obtained it. Subsequently it was assigned to the Manager of the National Bank in Kirkwall, George Drever. Then in 1921 Charles Haydon of Lynnfield put the number on his new Crossley.

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