Bertie

Bertie A midnight blue 1989 Carbodies Fairway London Taxi called Bertie. Made in England, retired in 2012.

Happy Birthday to Great Aunty Dot, 101 today! Congratulations on an amazing milestone! 🎂Seen here with Bertie in Wales i...
14/12/2025

Happy Birthday to Great Aunty Dot, 101 today! Congratulations on an amazing milestone! 🎂

Seen here with Bertie in Wales in 2019.

What a find! 😍Here is an image from Google Street View taken back in March 2019 of Bertie 'at home' in London. The littl...
27/03/2025

What a find! 😍

Here is an image from Google Street View taken back in March 2019 of Bertie 'at home' in London.

The little window above the front door was my room and note the Aussie flag in the window. 🇦🇺

What fond memories this brings back!

Happy Birthday to Great Aunty Dot, 100 today! Congratulations on an amazing milestone! 🎂Seen here with Bertie in Wales i...
14/12/2024

Happy Birthday to Great Aunty Dot, 100 today! Congratulations on an amazing milestone! 🎂

Seen here with Bertie in Wales in 2019.

What a glorious day! For Bertie it's the perfect day to get it home safe and tucked away as unds for it can be replenish...
02/10/2024

What a glorious day!

For Bertie it's the perfect day to get it home safe and tucked away as unds for it can be replenished and works can resume again soon.

This is the first time since November 2022 Bertie has been home. Much has changed with it since then.

Bertie update. Shortly, Bertie will be going back into storage for a while. In the meantime, the boys have been busy rec...
25/09/2024

Bertie update.

Shortly, Bertie will be going back into storage for a while. In the meantime, the boys have been busy recreating the rear wheel arches.

Unfortunately, the wheel arches couldn't be used off the doner car as they too were too far gone and were a patchwork of welds.

These have been incredibly time consuming to recreate and they have had to be made from scratch, a flat sheet of metal. The end result looks amazing!

Bit of a shame that once it's all back together, the wheel arches won't be visible.

Bertie update! The boys are doing a fantastic job and since the last visit much progress has been made, it looks so good...
04/09/2024

Bertie update!

The boys are doing a fantastic job and since the last visit much progress has been made, it looks so good! 😍

Almost all the structural work has been completed, with so much rust being cut out and replaced with new metal.

At the moment, work is being done on the rear wheel arches, with both sides being replaced, the new arches have come off the QLD car and are being sized up to fit in.

Once those have been done it will be up to doing the panels and by around then, it will be back in storage again.

As they say, 'Rome wasn't built in a day'.

After nearly 8 months on hiatus, Bertie is out of storage and back in the workshop. It's so satisfying to see Bertie bei...
14/08/2024

After nearly 8 months on hiatus, Bertie is out of storage and back in the workshop.

It's so satisfying to see Bertie being worked on again, with so much work having been done already.

Currently the area below the doors, between the two wheel arches is being done, one side is almost done and then the other side.

Cant wait to see how things are coming along in a couple of weeks.

Happy Birthday to Great Aunty Dot, 99 today!Seen here with Bertie in Wales in 2019.
14/12/2023

Happy Birthday to Great Aunty Dot, 99 today!

Seen here with Bertie in Wales in 2019.

Bertie is coming along nicely. The rear window is almost done and looks amazing. Parts of the breaker cab have been cut ...
01/12/2023

Bertie is coming along nicely.

The rear window is almost done and looks amazing. Parts of the breaker cab have been cut off and welded in.

The boys are doing an amazing job! 👌

Update on Bertie. Bertie is coming along very nicely. Works recommenced recently and with the donor taxi from QLD now he...
13/11/2023

Update on Bertie.

Bertie is coming along very nicely. Works recommenced recently and with the donor taxi from QLD now here, work is well underway.

Panels and doors have been removed, to be swapped for the ones on the donor taxi which are excellent.

Most of the interior has been stripped out, with deeper inspections revealing that the condition to be pretty good.

The canvas roof liner has been removed and only around the front and rear windows are the worst of it, the rest of the roof is pretty good.

Overall, the guys are doing a fantastic job and with the doner taxi here means works can go along just that bit quicker. Very exciting!

Meet 'Breaker'. Breaker was brought down from QLD to be a doner cab for Bertie. While it looks rough, there's lots of go...
13/11/2023

Meet 'Breaker'. Breaker was brought down from QLD to be a doner cab for Bertie.

While it looks rough, there's lots of good parts here which will be put on Bertie.

Very excited that things are now progressing nicely.

Restorative works have commenced!! 💪It's not a pretty sight, but it is what it is.
15/03/2023

Restorative works have commenced!! 💪

It's not a pretty sight, but it is what it is.

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