wlaidlaw Posted September 19, 2022 Share #18461  Posted September 19, 2022 Advertisement (gone after registration) Might be a Morris Cowley Flat Nose? My reservation is those wheels. Morris cars usually had steel artillery type wheels. Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rona!d Posted September 19, 2022 Share #18462  Posted September 19, 2022 Wilson, we may have the same list and concerns 😉 Isn‘t it funny, we think todays cars all look the same but in the 1920s it was even worse 😉 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkCambridgeshire Posted September 19, 2022 Share #18463 Â Posted September 19, 2022 Eric Campbell 10hp 1920Â dunk 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lx1jon Posted September 20, 2022 Share #18464  Posted September 20, 2022 Sorry gents, neither a Morris nor Campbell — keep them coming, Jonathan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted September 20, 2022 Share #18465  Posted September 20, 2022 (edited) Could it be a Crossley, maybe one of the smaller ones, a 14HP? Wilson PS as an interesting aside, Crossley made a number of Bugatti Brescia Type 23 cars under licence. A friend of mine who has a small classic car restoration business near Worthing, looks after a "British Brescia" for a very elderly gentleman, who drives it maybe once a year. He has looked after it for over 40 years. As the elderly man has no known relatives, my friend is somewhat hoping that he might get left the Bugatti in the will. Wilson Edited September 20, 2022 by wlaidlaw 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rona!d Posted September 20, 2022 Share #18466  Posted September 20, 2022 Can we exclude a direct french touch/influence? If not, what about S.T.D. Motors (Sunbeam, Talbot, Darracq)? In that case the car was sold as a Talbot or Sunbeam. Now I have to ask my "list" down (3-4 makers left) 😉 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lx1jon Posted September 20, 2022 Share #18467  Posted September 20, 2022 Advertisement (gone after registration) Wilson, not a Crossley, but very interesting side story re Bugatti. Ronald, no STD connection. Thanks to all for patiently persevering with this puzzle. Amusingly, I can say that someone else’s photo of the *very same* car appears in Wikipedia — only spotted this myself last night. Jonathan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rona!d Posted September 20, 2022 Share #18468 Â Posted September 20, 2022 Last one on my list: Rover 9/20 2-seater Tourer, around 1926. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rona!d Posted September 20, 2022 Share #18469  Posted September 20, 2022 I had the Nippy Nine pretty high on my list but the bonnet slots irritated me. Can this be a rebuild body on which the slots look a "little" bit different to the originals? I think your car has 8 slots which were common on the 4-seaters while the 2-seaters I know have 1 or 2 slots less and with a wider distance. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lx1jon Posted September 20, 2022 Share #18470  Posted September 20, 2022 Congratulations, Ronald! You are right on all counts. It is a Rover 9/20 which has had an interesting life. Probably best explained by quoting verbatim from the owners' sheet that was displayed with the car (edited to remove owners' names): "HARRIET is a 1926 Rover 9/20 She spent the majority of her life in Australia and Tasmania. She was bought by her owners XXX and YYY in 1991, after she had been re-imported to England. It is believed the she originally had an Australian built four seat tourer body, but after a rear-end collision she was converted to a "ute", or pickup. Later she was restored by Peter Thow of Tasmania, who built her present rear body as an exact replica of an original body on another Rover 9." So yes, originally a 4-seater, whose rear end (at least) has been rebuilt twice, with the second one being 2-seater based on other 2-seaters. Mind you, looking at the Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rover_9 (which shows this very car at another show) there's a blue 2-seater with even more slots. Maybe that was a rebuild too? Anyway, very well done — as you remarked earlier, car marques in the 1920s were just as similar-looking as the boring stuff of today. I'll send the reveals below and next, Jonathan  Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! 2 Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/119687-name-this-car/?do=findComment&comment=4513014'>More sharing options...
lx1jon Posted September 20, 2022 Share #18471  Posted September 20, 2022 And finally… Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! 2 Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/119687-name-this-car/?do=findComment&comment=4513015'>More sharing options...
Rona!d Posted September 20, 2022 Share #18472 Â Posted September 20, 2022 HARRIET was an interesting task! Thanks for sharing this car although I planned a time out, it was too tempting. My next car will be an easy one, so everybody can relax. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rona!d Posted September 20, 2022 Share #18473  Posted September 20, 2022 vor 20 Stunden schrieb dkCambridgeshire: Eric Campbell 10hp 1920 dunk  vor 11 Stunden schrieb wlaidlaw: Could it be a Crossley, maybe one of the smaller ones, a 14HP? Wilson I have to thank dunk and Wilson for the Eric Campbell (I didn´t know) and for the Crossley Bugatti (I only knew about the other cars and the bus production, not the 25 little early Bugattis they made - 24 full cars, 1 car in spare parts). Here an interesting quick intro about the Crossley-Bugattis. From the interesting Crossley-Website. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rona!d Posted September 20, 2022 Share #18474  Posted September 20, 2022 So here the next one. Maker and model (incl. generation) please.  Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/119687-name-this-car/?do=findComment&comment=4513102'>More sharing options...
Rona!d Posted September 22, 2022 Share #18475  Posted September 22, 2022 2 days unsolved riddle for this car? Thought it might be easier. OK, let´s try a slightly wider crop. Note: I retouched the makers logo, it is not an "OR"! Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/119687-name-this-car/?do=findComment&comment=4514206'>More sharing options...
Rona!d Posted September 22, 2022 Share #18476  Posted September 22, 2022 Extra hint: The car was known as the European Pony-Car and offered with a wide range of engines. The project name of this model generation was the same like the first name of the Princess of Wales who later drove a smaller car of the maker in question which sold for frightening 870.000 € this year. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rona!d Posted September 22, 2022 Share #18477  Posted September 22, 2022 Oh, and it´s not a VORxhall 😉 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viv Posted September 22, 2022 Share #18478 Â Posted September 22, 2022 Ford Escort Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rona!d Posted September 22, 2022 Share #18479 Â Posted September 22, 2022 vor 10 Minuten schrieb Viv: Ford Escort When it came out many young family fathers celebrated a FIESTA and choosed the car in question as their new automotive ESCORT, but it is a different model. Maker is correct so far. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted September 22, 2022 Share #18480 Â Posted September 22, 2022 (edited) Ford Capri (Generally called in the UK a Ford Crappy). I had one of the last ones, a 280 with a fuel injected Cologne engine and the suspension re-designed by John Miles of Lotus. It was a nice car but with a very fragile gearbox (Getrag?). I was travelling to Germany a lot on business at that time and after nearly every trip, it needed the layshaft bearings replaced (under warranty - three times!). Eventually after 2 years, it got stolen from my local station. I asked the car park attendant if he had noticed anything and he said he has seen it drive out with the alarm blaring but had decided it was probably just faulty - doh! Wilson Edited September 22, 2022 by wlaidlaw 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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