Your Pre War Singer Contact in Canada

I am the Canadian Singer Registrar and the Vice President of the North American Singer Owners Club. I have been a Singer enthusiast for as long as I can remember, with vivid memories as a child in Ottawa sitting in the family Le Mans circa 1953. This was our family car at the time and it always caused quite a stir when we went for groceries. There were of course, very few sports cars in North America at the time and certainly we were the only family to have one in the neighborhood.

By 1957, we graduated to a '48 Roadster, one of two in Amherstview, a suburb of Kingston Ontario. Obviously, sports cars were now catching on as a North American phenomenon.

In the sixties, my Dad felt I should have one of my own - a twin carb SM 1500 Roadster. I spent many hours restoring it to the best of my ability, given my limited mechanical and financial resources at the time. In fact it would be several years before I was old enough to get my licence and drive it. All the same, I joined the Singer Owners Club of North America, the precurser to NASOC.

While I loved my Roadster, my head was turned completely when Dad brought home the fabulous Blue and Cream '34 Nine Sports in the mid sixties. I knew then the pre war cars were for me.

Then there were two...

It would be many years before I could call the Cream and Blue '34 my own. In the interim, I managed to get my hands on BMD 211 - a wreck of a car that the dock workers in London felt wasn't worth shipping to the New World. However, they were persuaded to do so and hundreds of hours later, BMD 211 emerged like a butterfly from a coccoon.


Peter McKercher