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Title: SOLVED - What car #52 - Winchester Taxi
Post by: @re on November 13, 2007, 10:29:47 AM

Recognize this?

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Title: Re: What car #52
Post by: D-type on November 13, 2007, 12:10:50 PM

Is this one of the proposed replacements for the Austin FX4 London Taxicab?

The Beardmore comes to mind

Title: Re: What car #52
Post by: @re on November 13, 2007, 12:14:39 PM

What can I say? The shape of the thing sort of tells a story. A Beardmore, however, it is not.

Title: Re: What car #52
Post by: max on November 13, 2007, 04:18:05 PM

Winchester

Title: Re: What car #52
Post by: @re on November 13, 2007, 07:46:18 PM

I know I asked for make and designation, but in this case that's a bit difficult to know as I've never seen a designation other than 'Taxi'. So, a Winchester Taxi it is, built from the Sixties and well into the Seventies. It was never a big success because its engine was too low on power, but when the diesel powerplant eventually was replaced with a (not much more powerful) petrol engine it became popular among filmmakers because normal taxis' diesel engines interfered heavily with the sound recording equipment of that time... so that's today's pub trivia.

Title: Re: SOLVED - What car #52 - Winchester Taxi
Post by: Wendax on November 04, 2014, 06:49:14 AM

The official name seems to be Winchester Taxicab (see owner's handbook below).

Supposedly 200 cabs built, the pictures below show #190.