automobile
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact35075
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV993.19.1
- Description
- 1929 Nash Roadster, two door convertible with rumble seat. Body colour is two-tone, tan and brown. Wheels are wire spoke, mounting 29 in. X 5.5 in. tube tires. There are spare tires mounted on rims. These are located forward of the side doors. All the wheels have hubcaps. There are no side curtains. The engine is six cylinder with a "Twin Ignition" system. There are two sparkplugs per cylinder.
- Object History
- The Nash roadster was purchased by a private owner in British Columbia after it came out in 1929. In the late 1950s or 1960s the car was purchased from the first owner by William "Graham" Kidd (1922-1984) of Burnaby. The well loved vehicle was nicknamed "Agnes" by it's second owner Graham Kidd. Graham Kidd was the son of William Kidd Sr. (1882-1970) and Helen Kelly Kidd (1894-1977). Graham Kidd was born in Burnaby in 1922 and lived in Burnaby his whole life. Graham's father William Kidd and his mother Helen White Kelly married in North Burnaby in 1917 and moved into a home on Oxford Street. William Kidd opened a hardware store on East Hastings Street Burnaby in 1913 and operated it for twenty years before working for Burrard Brokerage in the 1930s. William and Helen had three children; William Graham Kidd, Margaret Graham "Peggy" (McLaughlin) and Ann (Mercier). In the late 1940s, Graham joined his father William Kidd working for Burrard Brokerage eventually becoming the proprietor of the business in the 1950s. Graham Kidd married Gweneth "Gwen" Anderson and lived in North Burnaby with their three children until he died in 1984. Graham Kidd loved his Nash automobile often going for Sunday drives with the convertible top down with children riding in the rumble seat. Parts for the automobile were hard to come by and the family recalls a neighbour Oscar Johnson helped to keep it in good condition. In the 1970s the Nash roadster was also refurbished and repainted with help from Graham Kidd's neighbour John Prestas. In 1984, after William Kidd died, Gwen Kidd donated the automobile to the Transportation Museum of British Columbia, Cloverdale who in turn donated it to Burnaby Village Museum in 1993.
- Classification
- Land Transportation T&E - - Motor Vehicles
- Object Term
- Automobile
- Marks/Labels
- "B33452", serial number
- "436", model number
- "80981", body number
- Maker
- Nash Motor Company
- Country Made
- United States of America
- Province Made
- Wisconsin
- Site/City Made
- Kenosha
Images
Nash special six series 430 : information for the owner
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary921
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Author
- Nash Motors Company
- Publication Date
- 1928
- Call Number
- 629.2 NAS
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Call Number
- 629.2 NAS
- Author
- Nash Motors Company
- Place of Publication
- Kenosha, Wis.
- Publisher
- Nash Motors Co.
- Publication Date
- 1928
- Physical Description
- 79 p. : ill. ; 22 x 36 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Nash automobile
- Notes
- "Book number M-37-A".
Nash special six, series 430 : information for the owner
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary6404
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV993.26.1
- Call Number
- 629.2 NAS
- Place of Publication
- Kenosha, Wis.
- Publisher
- The Nash Motors Company
- Publication Date
- 1928
- Printer
- Mead-Grede Printing Co.
- Physical Description
- 79 p. : ill. ; 23 x 36 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Automobiles
- Nash automobile
- Notes
- "Book number M-37-A"--t.p.