It seems odd that this old rose could have been the pollen parent of 'Amberlight' [(Seedling x Lavender Pinocchio) x Marcel Bourgouin]. Just another of the mysteries of rose breeding.
In "Classic Roses" of Beales notes that he worked for the late Edward LeGrice when he crossed this (Marcel Bourgoin) and 'Tuscany Superb', among others, with modern roses to breed his famous range of unusually coloured modern varieties... I think 'Amberlight' was an intermediate step for breeding purposes. 'Amberlight''s offspring 'Tom Brown' was then widely used for further breeding. What is interesting is that while 'Marcel Bourgoin' is once-blooming, its descendants were repeat bloomers.
