//Yes TTT. me at 16, 1950 bond.//
A friend of mine had a Bond 3-wheeler. It was a later model than yours – about 1962 IIRC. I think it had a 250cc air-cooled Villiers engine. The electric starter on my mate’s car was defunct and he had to open the bonnet and kick-start it! Bond did produce a decent car in the Equipe (once they abandoned the Triumph Herald engine and upped it to 2 litres) and of course the infamous “Bug.”
I was briefly in the 3-wheeler market. Soon after some bar steward nicked my brand new Lambretta SX200 I graduated to a Berkeley T60. This had a 328cc engine which propelled it to around 60mph (downhill with a following wind). This had a somewhat inconvenient habit of periodically shedding its offside front wheel. The stub axle was held on by some sort of castleated nut with a split pin and for some reason the split pin would shear, leaving the nut to gradually undo, thus releasing the wheel. By the time this had happened for the third time I had passed my car test (you could drive three-wheelers on a motorbike licence) and bought an Anglebox.
Among my current transport fleet is a third share in an ex-London Transport Routemaster bus. It has its original AEC 9.6 litre engine (unlike the examples that, until carried on working on London’s two “heritage” bus routes – the 9 and 11 – most of which were converted to meet low emissions standards). However, I don't use it to go to the shops.
//Jags at one time were only for the rich and the famous//
Not correct. I had a Jaguar XJ6 for about two years in the 1980s. I was neither rich nor famous then, and I remain impoverished and unknown today.