BMC Service Casuals quickly established themselves as a force in the local football world.

Within three seasons of being formed, the team from the Cowley car plant was making headlines.

Former manager Albert Taylor has sent in a report from a works magazine, which congratulated the players on their progress.

He is not sure of the date, but the teams had reached the final of the Oxford Sunday League President’s Cup with an impressive win over Pressed Steel, the Division I leaders, having already knocked out Nalgo, Hunt & Broadhurst and Oxford Post Office.

The Casuals had also reached the quarter finals of the Sam Walters Cup, in which they were unlucky to lose to Premier League leaders Athletico Florentina. They had beaten another Premier Division team, the Trimmers (from the Morris Motors’ trim shop) in an earlier round.

The report added: “The Casuals play in Division I having gained promotion from Division II only last season.”

Memory Lane this week

Mr Taylor, who lives in Marston Road, Oxford, points out he was the manager, and Mike Siggery, who sent in the team picture (Memory Lane, February 9), was secretary. He says two players were listed incorrectly – the club captain was Roger Tavinor, not Roger Taylor, and Ken Rees was never known as ‘Chalky’.