An AC car sales invoice from 1928

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St Luke's Garage was a small backstreet operation that commenced prior to the First World War and ceased trading in 1998. It is now a residential house. The garage was an Aladdin's Cave of spare parts, petrol pumps and all paperwork was stored on spikes on wooden blocks, each for the year concerned.
   
   With the garage's demise all the equipment was sold or chucked into the skip. There were some interesting documents from AC from the 20's and 30's. They included invoices for parts from Jock Henderson at AC (when pistons were 15/- each and cylinder head gaskets 8/6) and from the Hurlocks.
   
   Here's one below, an invoice from AC for £350.0.0, dated 13 January 1928, for the sale of a second-hand six-cylinder 4-seater (ch. 13215) with the part-ex being an AC Empire (ch. 9376). The car was to be repainted in Durobelle and some minor rectification work was needed before delivery to St Luke's and onto its new owner, Mr T C Currie of Cheltenham. Note that AC had a typewriter key for the AC logo and that the paperwork still did not reflect the 'new' company name.
   

[Old Crock]

Here's another, this one a letter dtd. 28 January 1932, and from a Mr R P Bull, secretary at AC (Acedes) Cars Ltd to St Luke's Garage. The wording may not be too clear on the photo below, so is repeated:
   
   Dear Sir,
   
   We have already written you on two occasions regarding your account for 6/9d. which is now much overdue.
   
   You are making the position difficult and disquieting for us by your apparent failure to acknowledge our applications, and we must ask for this matter to receive your immediate attention.
   
   If you dispute our account, or if we have failed in any way to fulfil our part, please drop us a line and we will immediately attend to it.
   
   Failing this we shall confidently expect your remittance within the next few days
   
   Yours etc
   
   The garage sent a Postal Order for 6/- together with stamps to the value of 9d. immediately, and a receipt from Thames Ditton is dated six days after the letter.