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nqtraderman · Last edited by nqtraderman on Tue Feb 28, 2017 9:43 pm; edited 1 time in total

I've just come across this old photo and wondered if anyone can help identify the make model & year of the van

thanks

and if you can identify the car behind the wall I'm well impressed Smile

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peter scott · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7215 Location: Edinburgh

Looks like a Morris 8 to me. Lancashire June 1936.

Peter

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Penman · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4861 Location: Swindon, Wilts.

Eee
I didn't know that was what Cleggie did before 'e retired to Holmfirth.
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nqtraderman · Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2017 10:19 pm Post subject:

Thank you, I rekon you're right

cheers
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peter scott · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7215 Location: Edinburgh

I wonder if the car on the left might be a 1932 Morris Major Coupe as in the left side of this photo. It looks like it might have Landau bars.

The Morris 10/4 Coupe also looks similar.

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Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22786 Location: UK

I did wonder about the car to the left being a Morris coupe of some description - the painted spare wheel cover may help id it.

Is it an old family photo nqtraderman?

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nqtraderman · Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2017 9:31 am Post subject:

No, it was posted on a forum about bygone times in the village I grew up in, Tarleton, Lancs and I was trying to get an idea of the age of it.

I do remember a Cleggs shop in the early '70's in Tarleton but the photo above is much earlier and was of a Cleggs shop in the next village, Hesketh Bank. It may have been the same person and they moved but who knows, it was well before my time !

Great work on the other car too, I wouldn't have had a clue, pre war cars are not my forte.
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nqtraderman · Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2017 6:19 pm Post subject:

Hi Guys, here's another one from the local village archives, taken in 1919 celebrating the end of WW1

Any ideas what car it is ?

thanks

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peter scott · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7215 Location: Edinburgh

I wonder if it might be a 1904 Clément-Bayard AC2K

Peter

or a 20/24HP

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mikeC · Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2017 7:14 pm Post subject:

Close, Peter; but I think you'll find it's a (Clement) Talbot. I would suggest around 1911-12, by which time the London company had dropped the Clement name.
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peter scott · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7215 Location: Edinburgh

Thanks Mike,

I confess I didn't look much further than the radiator. The 1911 Talbot looks a good match.

Peter

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nqtraderman · Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2017 9:40 pm Post subject:

"A newspaper clipping from the Weekly Courier, 20 April 1911.
**Lieutenant James Boag, member of the Australian Volunteer Automobile Corps, brewery owner and retired artillery officer is in the passenger seat of 35hp Talbot car, Tasmania Military District Encampment, at Ross, Easter 1911**"

This looks similar ?
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