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Thank you, Leonard.

 

This one should not be too difficult:

 

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Thank you, Stu.

 

This was just snapped out on the street the other week so no prizes expected for Artistic Endeavour...

A veritable Ugly Duckling in it's own way. It was a wonderful collection of curves, ogees and straight lines.

 

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Manufacturer and general model-type might be simple so specific model type would assure the acquisition of cocoa-nuts...

 

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No, not the Ro80, Wilson.

This model actually slightly predates the NSU and production ceased in '67 - the year the Ro80 was launched!

 

Like the NSU this vehicle also had an unusual choice (by today's automotive standards) of powerplant which was also of sub- one litre displacement. Over it's four year production span just under 30,000 were made in both short and (slightly) longer wheelbase versions. The one pictured is of the former type.

 

Another teaser showing the fairly unique and rather graceful (in my opinion) front wheelarch 'brow treatment;

 

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No, Wilson; the engine is in the front.

 

The model pictured is 'named' (numbered) after a fairly well-known endurance racing event owing to the links between the marque's involvement in numerous successes there......albeit not in the GC!...

 

Here's the (again, rather shapely) fuel-filler cap area and - perhaps - the giveaway rear light cluster;

 

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Congrats, Dunk. It is, indeed, as you say a Panhard 24CT - the Tigre variant of the short-wheelbase version.

 

Front-engined two-cylinder air-cooled 'boxer' motor put out a very healthy 50hp from it's 848cc unit which gave it a top speed of around 90mph (as compared to 32hp for VWs 1192cc four cylinder plant which topped out at 68).

 

The DB Panhard team had three class victories at La Sarthe as well as achieving much success in the Index of Performance category.

 

Snap of the whole shebang;

 

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Thank you Philip. Initially I also thought the car was an NSU.

 

Here's the next puzzle. The design was based on a common car chassis but named after the designer - and likely that several hundred were built. Can you please state the designer's name and the vehicle's function - both of which form the vehicle name/type.  The modified vehicle was designed and built in the UK.

 

 

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Another clue:

 

 

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The designer died aged 34 years in 1918 - but not as a result of WW1 action. This vehicle was built in 1920. 

 

 

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Aircraft engine starter tin lizzie. One of the most frightening things I have ever had to do - starting the Gipsy Major in a friend's Puss Moth, when he flew into a field next to our house in the UK, especially as he had no chocks and was having to hold it on the brakes. 

 

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Aircraft engine starter tin lizzie. One of the most frightening things I have ever had to do - starting the Gipsy Major in a friend's Puss Moth, when he flew into a field next to our house in the UK, especially as he had no chocks and was having to hold it on the brakes. 

 

Wilson

 

 

 

Correct Wilson … but what's the designer's name?

 

 

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Hicks? Hocks? Hucks? something like that (sounds like a latin declension). I could look it up but that would be cheating.  :)

 

Wilson

 

PS I am surprised that this was not invented earlier to start the RR Eagle V12. I would not have fancied hand starting one of those. 

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Hicks? Hocks? Hucks? something like that (sounds like a latin declension). I could look it up but that would be cheating.  :)

 

Wilson

 

PS I am surprised that this was not invented earlier to start the RR Eagle V12. I would not have fancied hand starting one of those. 

 

 

 

Hucks is correct Wilson … I 'sort of' looked it up … had no idea who designed it until reading the museum description on the day The Leica Society visited The Shuttleworth Collection at Old Warden 

 

 

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Your turn Wilson.

 

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