This is an undated photograph of Muker from our files. Straw Beck babbles under Muker bridge, and at the bridge end there is a single petrol pump.

There’s a milk churn placed on a wall, ready for collection, and outside the arches of an old out-building – today a residence – there is a car. As we’ve had lots of interest in our old cars recently, perhaps readers would like to identify it.

Last week’s picture showed Stokesley town hall in December 1962, and every caller identified the mystery vehicle as an Austin. But after that, there was a divergence of opinion.

On the one hand, Robert Jackson of Ripon, Mike Prosser of Wensley, John Weighell of Neasham, Howard Mays said it was an A40 Somerset, as did Gill Wootten in Darlington – “it had a pig of a column change”, she said. Rod Thrower of Guisborough agreed, and said: "The registration plate, BXG 913, shows it was first registered in Middlesbrough."

Michael Waldman in Worton, near Leyburn, also an A40 Somerset, and he added: "One reason for this identification is that an uncle of mine, the late J Allan Cash, a very well known photographer, author and journalist of his day had one of these cars in the 1950s. In one of his books, Boys Book of Photography, published in 1953, a young schoolboy in the then regulation grey flannel jacket and shorts – me – is pictured photographing such a car outside the family house."

Michael also said: "To the left of the A40 is another car with a rounded boot-lid which, judging by the "spatted" rear wheel-arch, could well be another "county" car of the Austin series, an Austin A70 Hampshire." Lots of people commented on this other vehicle – but to return to the car over the gutter,

Maureen Dawes of Newton le Willows and Gordon Tyman said an A40 Devon.

But on the other hand, Dennis Exelby, Chris Robson of Pickhill, Ian Gravestock of Yarm, Mark Cooper of Darlington, David Atkinson of Stokesley – “in the motor trade since 1968” – said an A70 Hereford.

The A70 Hereford replaced the A70 Hampshire in 1950 and was made until 1954. The smaller A40 was produced from 1957 to 1956 in versions which included the Dorset, Devon, Somerset and Cambridge.

Mick Faulkner in Hutton Rudby writes: "Some will say the car is an Austin A40 Somerset 1200, but I think it is an Austin A70 1500."

But that doesn't take into account Brian Walton of Spennithorne who says it could be an A60 or Alan Harperley who identifies it as an A90.

Any comments on the Muker car to chris.lloyd@nne.co.uk or 01325-505062. Many thanks to everyone who has contributed.