A. Hindson’s Shanghai Driving Licence, 1930

A Shanghai Driving License issued to A Hindson, 23 years old and living on Aivei Road, better known as Avenue Road, and now Beijing Lu. The licence was issued on November 19, 1930 (19 being a reference to Chinese Republic years since 1911). Interestingly the licence specially states that Hindson is driving a Morris Cowley (I’ll put a pic of one below for non-British readers who may not be familiar with the classic UK car). I don’t know much about Hindson except that he obviously liked machinery and tech – he was the secretary and treasurer for the Shanghai Amateur Photographic Society for a while. I think he was from a family that had been in China for some time as a man also called Hindson, who could well be his father, appears in the records working for the Shanghai Public Health Department and then Rose, Downs and Thompson (Far East) traders.