Maestros and their motor cars (46): Elgar’s had two wheels
Orchestras
The English composer rode a Sunbeam bike.
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Sensible.
Did I miss Puccini in this series?
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)