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I don’t think so. The cousin used to be in the merchant navy and subsequently worked on heritage vessels. He remembered it as the acronym for Engine Room Artificer.

Re bamber’s comment “ RA was a Derbyshire County Council suffix until 1974 which would tie in with them having a dealership at Etwall.“ did you mean F.Mitchell had a dealership at Etwall?

Hello everyone in Nottingham, My name is Paul Clark and I have just joined the forums to dig up some info if I can, about F.Mitchell, the erstwhile Triumph dealership in Nottingham. I have seen a discussion thread elsewhere in the forum mentioning that showroom). It's a long story... When I was a lad (always a good opening on a nostalgia blog), I used to ride in my uncle's Triumph TR3 (or possibly a 3A). It was red with black upholstery, and that was around about 1965 when I was 11 years old. He sold the car a few years later as I recall. I am now just reaching retirement