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Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22439 Location: UK

Three wheeler photo arrived recently .....

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mikeC · Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2017 10:47 am Post subject:

First thoughts were a pre First World War Morgan, but the single chain drive and rear starting handle / kick start suggests a rear/mid-engined machine, so I'll go for an AC Sociable. The registration number is a Lindsey (North Lincolnshire) one.
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Recently departed: 1953 Lancia Appia, 1931 Austin Seven, 1967 Singer Chamois, 1914 Saxon, 1930 Morris Cowley, 1936 BSA Scout, 1958 Lancia Appia coupe, 1922 Star 11.9 ... the list goes on!

MrWhite · Joined: 09 May 2017 Posts: 105

Trying this for the first time so fingers crossed it works.
Old picture I saw on holiday, maybe some interesting cars in there. Smile

https://www.dropbox.com/s/m4yeqbr8ikhtkhl/20170720_150214.jpg?dl=0

Mmmm, seems to have come up as a clicky link, can anyone advise how better to post?

47Jag · Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2017 11:04 pm Post subject:

I see what looks like an SS Jaguar at the very end.

Art

Da Tow'd · Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2017 4:02 am Post subject:

old photo of the wharf in our little town most likely taken in the 1930 maybe earlier

I showed this photo to a old car friend and he said he saw a photo taken by one of the photographers on the wharf at the same time.
cheers
Hank

peter scott · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7118 Location: Edinburgh

Looks like quite an occasion. Perhaps a rather larger ship than normal has arrived?

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Peter_L · Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2017 1:08 pm Post subject:

By the number of cameras pointed at the ship, it must be something out the ordinary. MV "Princess Charlotte" ?

Da Tow'd · Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2017 8:35 pm Post subject:

this photo of the Princess Beatrice was taken the same day.
I'm not sure of its sailing schedule but any time it would arrive everybody that could make it turned up for the big show. Everything brought into this little valley came by boat or pack horse, until the road linked us up to the rest of British Columbia in 1953.
Hank

Penman · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4755 Location: Swindon, Wilts.

Hi
This page has some schedules.
http://tinyurl.com/y7u483rg

CP at the top of the page and you might have to zoom in to read it.
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Any 2 from:-
Straight 6
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Penman · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4755 Location: Swindon, Wilts.

Hi
Did we ever get an answer to What is This? It must have been at least 10yrs ago.

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Bristols should always come in pairs.

Any 2 from:-
Straight 6
V8 V10

mikeC · Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2017 5:24 pm Post subject:

That's an interesting machine!

It obviously dates from the late 1940s or very early 1950s, and looks to be a very professional effort, but I've never seen it before. The gear lever looks to be late 1930s Standard - possibly Fourteen or Twenty - and the radiator grille suggests the car was probably called Tulip Very Happy

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in the garage: 1938 Talbot Ten Airline
Recently departed: 1953 Lancia Appia, 1931 Austin Seven, 1967 Singer Chamois, 1914 Saxon, 1930 Morris Cowley, 1936 BSA Scout, 1958 Lancia Appia coupe, 1922 Star 11.9 ... the list goes on!

peter scott · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7118 Location: Edinburgh

Perhaps no great mystery. I'm just curious.
Peter

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Peter_L · Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2017 9:50 pm Post subject:

One can always tell they are in the U.S.A, by the bullet holes. Laughing

Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22439 Location: UK

This query arrived via email earlier in the week ....

"Hi

I’ve just discovered your site and found it fascinating, and I wondered if you may be able to help to identify the car in the attached picture. I apologise for the quality, but it is a scan of a print in a newspaper, and is the only source we have.

The couple in the picture are my wife’s great great grandfather (1824 – 1918) and his wife (died 1908).

The story we have is that the guy in the picture who lived in Berkhamsted in Hertfordshire and his son took the train up to Coventry, bought the car and taught himself to drive by the simple expedient of driving it back to Berkhamsted. This made him the second car owner in the town, the first one being the Doctor.

We know that they were living in the house illustrated from 1891, and that she died in 1908, which gives a time frame to work with. Family history, which should always be taken with a large pinch of salt, has it that the car was a Benz, but we have no documentary evidence.

If you or your readers could shed any light on this we would be extremely grateful

Many thanks

Allen"
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mikeC · Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2017 4:13 pm Post subject:

It is almost certainly an c1898-99 'Benz Velo'; the trouble is Karl Benz licensed the production to numerous manufacturers - Star in Wolverhampton being one. But if he collected the car from Coventry it may have been built by another local company.
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in the garage: 1938 Talbot Ten Airline
Recently departed: 1953 Lancia Appia, 1931 Austin Seven, 1967 Singer Chamois, 1914 Saxon, 1930 Morris Cowley, 1936 BSA Scout, 1958 Lancia Appia coupe, 1922 Star 11.9 ... the list goes on!