Dunoon Line of cars and hearses

Fitzpatrick’s funeral and taxi hire fleet is an impressive line-up along the esplanade in 1947. At the front is Fitzpatrick’s first hearse, FGB 645, which was a brand new long wheel base Humber- bodied by Charlesworth of Coventry. All the others were second hand but nonetheless quality cars The next two are of US origin: JB 8493 was a Packard “straight eight” seven- seat limousine of 1936, while BGB 375 was a Buick (also straight eight) 5 seat saloon of 1937. Behind the Buick comes an Austin Eighteen Iver 7 seat limo, followed by a Dodge 7 seater. Sixth in the row is CSM 555, another Austin Eighteen, then a Buick 7 seat limo previously owned by Provost Drummond of Greenock. Next is a Wolseley limo, followed by an Armstrong-Siddeley sallon ending the line.