Two Family Album Mysteries (update: 1914 Alldays Midget and 1913 Clyno)

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The family seems prepared for a nice weekend tour. Maybe slightly overdressed for this time of the year we thought. So we checked the climate around Quetta (Pakistan) where apparantly this photo was shot and found it really can be quite chilly overthere in November.  

David Harrison writes"I came across these photos of my late mother's family the other day. I believe they may have taken in British India (probably near Quetta) Mother was born in 1913 (her sister in 1910) so probably about the end of the First World War.

My Grandmother and the two girls travelled back to India in 1917/18 on a troopship to rejoin my Grandfather in Quetta. He had been on active service with the Indian Army in France (1914) Gallipoli(1915) and Mesopotamia -now Iraq (1915-17)! He then returned to India for a period of quiet (ho! ho!),but was involved in the Third (!) Afghan War on and off until 1920, when it did go quiet for a good few years!

I would guess the car photo was 1917/18 from the age of the children. Pretty minimal brakes! Mother & her sister look singularly unimpressed!

The motor bike & sidecar - a bit later? An aside about the bike...Family legend (Granny) said that my Grandfather won it in the Serjeant's Mess Christmas Raffle. She believed (Politically incorrect spoiler alert!) that "I was the first white woman to go over the Khyber Pass in a sidecar!"

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