A Car hidden for the duration of the German Occupation of Guernsey.

Mrs Doris Carré interviewed by Margaret Le Cras.
Edited excerpt from a transcript of the taped interview

Voice. And then your father, what was his pride and joy
Mrs Carré. Oh yes, his car. That was a Studebaker, and it was his pride and joy, he was determined the Germans wouldn’t have it, he just left it in the garage, near the road,
I………. And they never searched it?
Mrs Carré. No, He’d bought a small one for my brother, so he gave that car in
I………. When he had to give up a car, so I suppose they felt he didn’t have another one? They wouldn’t have known that. So did it still go at the end of the war?
Mrs Carré. Well, my mother was in hospital, and she was coming out the day of the Liberation and my father was determined that he was going to fetch her in the car, so I was all ready, waiting for him to start the car, and he just couldn’t start it. So he said to me, “You’ll have to walk up there and tell her that I can’t start the car” but he was still trying, and there wasn’t only a few minutes that I was up there, and he turned up, he’d managed to start it.
I………. That would have been good going, actually, getting a car to start after all those years. So did you go on Liberation Day down into town?
Mrs Carré. Yes, in the evening, because my husband was working with the Red Cross, with the parcels that day, but in the evening we went off on our bikes to see all the excitement. There were lots of people, in front of the Royal Hotel
I………. and you would have met people that you knew
Mrs Carré. probably I did
I………. Because other people from round your way would have gone in to town as well
Mrs Carré. We were all on bikes in those days.
I………. You’ve got some happy memories of Liberation , well, thank you ever so much for sharing them.

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