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Aluminium Armstrong-Siddeley query
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 27, 2015 5:14 pm    Post subject: Aluminium Armstrong-Siddeley query Reply with quote
Hi all,

Someone posted this onto the OCC Facebook page today, can anyone shed light on the cars and their fate(s)?

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In 1956 or thereabouts the director of ALCAN Laboratories in Banbury (& I think two other directors at other ALCAN sites) had Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire 346 cars that were unpainted - just bodied in brushed or polished Aluminium.

One had the registration TDU 419.

As a publicity exercise for aluminium they were not a success because they cracked and I suspect they were scrapped by about 1960.

If anyone has any recollections/articles/photos etc I'd be really pleased to know. You can comment here and/or message to my facebook page Mike Turner Lytham St Annes. Thanks
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