Maestros and their motor cars (46): Elgar’s had two wheels
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The English composer rode a Sunbeam bike.
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He called it ‘Mr Phoebus’. The tradition of naming bicycles and cars has perhaps been lost and belongs to another age.
Elgar can be seen in the BBC film driving either a Morris Oxford or a Morris Isis of the late 1920s( probably the latter from recollection)