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If you have a Rochdale car and are a member of the club, please send a small photograph and a brief description of the car to the webmaster at keith@scholar-racing96.com who will add it to this section of the site. We are interested in allcars, even if they are currently being restored or languishing in the back garden!

If you own a Rochdale car and are not a member of the club, please consider joining. An application form is available here and the benefits the club offers are detailed here. Even if you do not want to join the club we would be grateful if you would send details of the car to the Club Secretary.

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Rochdale Motor Panels: Olympic demonstrator

Left is a photo of VDK 147 - works demonstrator seen at the Copenhagen Show (1961).

In 1961 the owners of Rochdale Motor Panels, Frank Butterworth and Harry Smith, embarked on a sales drive around Europe in VDK 147, the Olympic sales demonstrator. Although the car generated considerable interest in the various countries they visited, the trip failed to generate a single sale - ironic when considering the current number of cars, and enthusiasts in the countries concerned. The car is pictured here at the Copenhagen Motor Show, where it is seen jostling Stirling Moss' World Record Breaking MG EX 181 for attention! Frank Butterworth always had a good eye for a photograph at the time, and I suspect it was him who climbed the balcony for this overhead shot at the show. The car still survives to this day.

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