I had previously noticed on the front cover of the 1929 DT parts catalogue that there was the coat of Arms of the King of Spain. easy to miss and it was only by accident I noticed it. I had a copy of this catalogue but none of the other Douglas ones from around this period and was going to mention it as an aside on this thread when we get to 1929 (...which won't be long...!).
I contacted Doug Kephart to see if he could help out with more information and he kindly went through his Douglas literature and the earliest reference to the Spanish Royal family he has found so far is from 1928. There are of course, connections between the British and Spanish Royal family's through the wife of King Alfonso XIII, Victoria Eugenie Julia Ena of Battenberg, who was Queen Victoria's grand-daughter.
I thought that maybe the Royal Spanish connection was not that important, but as it appears to have started in 1928 and due to the political turmoil in Spain (and the possible low popularity of the King (?)) at the time it may have had implications with respect to Quinones role as Douglas Agent for Spain? Not sure, but for most of 1928 Quinones was still the Douglas Agent, and even had advertisements in other periodicals in Spain than what we have seen previously in Gran Vida (see advert from Aerea (Madrid) 4 1928. Later, in October 1928, he stopped the usual Gran Vida last page spread and started advertising his role as Spanish Agent for AJS. More on that in my next post. I have not found any other mentions of any Douglas Agents in Spain after this date, Quinones or otherwise but will keep looking. it is possible that Quinones continued in this role even tho' he chose not to advertise the fact? (Adverts from
https://www.bne.es/es/catalogos/hemeroteca-digital)
I have also dug up some other Royal connections relating to Spanish Motorcycle racing - in particular dirt track racing / speedway and will post them when we get to 1929.
Many thanks to Doug K. for supplying the information re the Spanish Royal Family and the Douglas catalogues.
-Hutch