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Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2009 => Topic started by: Quiller on May 19, 2009, 08:43:20 AM

Title: Q496 - solved - MVM
Post by: Quiller on May 19, 2009, 08:43:20 AM
What's the name of this car? Your puzzle point awaits ...
Title: Re: Q496
Post by: Quiller on June 17, 2009, 06:15:41 AM
Will the experts have it?
Title: Re: Q496
Post by: Djetset on June 17, 2009, 06:20:00 AM
It looks like an early Fairthorpe Electron Minor.  Is it?
Title: Re: Q496
Post by: Quiller on June 17, 2009, 08:34:53 AM
It's not a Fairthorpe, no ...
Title: Re: Q496
Post by: D-type on June 17, 2009, 07:00:41 PM
Berkley Bandit?
Title: Re: Q496
Post by: Quiller on June 18, 2009, 09:37:29 AM
Neither a Bandit be it ...
Title: Re: Q496
Post by: Quiller on July 12, 2009, 12:03:18 PM
Possible for a pro?
Title: Re: Q496
Post by: gilescooperuk on July 12, 2009, 05:30:49 PM
Jowett Jupiter?
Title: Re: Q496
Post by: Quiller on July 12, 2009, 06:34:35 PM
Not a Jowett...
Title: Re: Q496
Post by: jotage21 on July 13, 2009, 11:24:36 AM
Microplas?
Title: Re: Q496
Post by: Quiller on July 13, 2009, 12:09:59 PM
Nor Microplas ...
Title: Re: Q496
Post by: Allemano on July 13, 2009, 06:32:07 PM
A Turner Stiletto, maybe?
Title: Re: Q496
Post by: Quiller on July 13, 2009, 06:33:57 PM
Not a Turner ...
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Post by: gilescooperuk on July 13, 2009, 06:35:06 PM
British though?
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Post by: Allemano on July 13, 2009, 06:36:05 PM
something from the Buckler milieu...?
Title: Re: Q496
Post by: Quiller on July 13, 2009, 06:58:33 PM
It is indeed from the UK  :)

Not Buckler ...  :(
Title: Re: Q496
Post by: Paul Jaray on July 13, 2009, 07:27:11 PM
Martin Plastics?
Title: Re: Q496
Post by: Quiller on July 14, 2009, 11:30:42 AM
As far as I know, nothing to do with Martin
Title: Re: Q496
Post by: Quiller on November 10, 2009, 07:23:39 AM
Again, the key to finding the identity of this car is locating whereabouts in the UK it was made.......
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Post by: Djetset on November 10, 2009, 07:45:19 AM
It wouldn't be a Rochdale would it?
Title: Re: Q496
Post by: Quiller on November 10, 2009, 08:53:21 AM
More exotic than Rochdale...
Title: Re: Q496
Post by: Arunas on November 10, 2009, 09:13:07 AM
Made in a period of 1953-1955?
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Post by: Arunas on November 10, 2009, 09:21:16 AM
Ford components?
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Post by: Allan L on November 10, 2009, 12:07:08 PM
Quote from: Arunas on November 10, 2009, 09:21:16 AM
Ford components?
Looks more BMC to me
Title: Re: Q496
Post by: Quiller on November 10, 2009, 03:32:39 PM
Quote from: Arunas on November 10, 2009, 09:13:07 AM
Made in a period of 1953-1955?

Just after this...
Title: Re: Q496
Post by: Quiller on November 10, 2009, 03:33:14 PM
Quote from: Allan L on November 10, 2009, 12:07:08 PM
Quote from: Arunas on November 10, 2009, 09:21:16 AM
Ford components?
Looks more BMC to me


Neither Ford nor BMC engine.....
Title: Re: Q496
Post by: pnegyesi on November 11, 2009, 10:43:58 AM
Townend 581 by G&R Townend Ltd?
Title: Re: Q496
Post by: Quiller on November 11, 2009, 12:49:31 PM
Not that....
Title: Re: Q496
Post by: Arunas on November 11, 2009, 01:02:48 PM
I'll go for MVM.
Title: Re: Q496
Post by: Quiller on November 11, 2009, 02:29:58 PM
Quote from: Arunas on November 11, 2009, 01:02:48 PM
I'll go for MVM.

We have a winner!  :applause:

M.V.M. (GB) 1956
Manor View Motors, Castel, Guernsey
Guernsey's one and only car manufacturer was set to be Le Tissier's Manor View Motors (M.V.M.). In 1956, he made a small open sports two-to-three-seater with a ladder frame chassis, all-independent wishbone suspension and a glassfibre body. The two-cylinder two-stroke 325cc Anzani 18bhp engine was centrally mounted and a top speed of 60mph (96km/h) was claimed. It was intended that the M.V.M. would be sold exclusively in mainland Britain at prices from £350 but in the event only two prototypes were ever built.
Title: Re: Q496 - solved - MVM
Post by: Djetset on November 11, 2009, 02:39:43 PM
Sir Quiller, I would challenge the claim that the MVM was the only car ever attempted to be made on the island of Guernsey as I seem to recall a nasty GRP-bodied MG TD replica being built on Guernsey in the early 1990s, with a plan to inflict it on a poor, unsuspecting public.  Mercifully I don't think it ever got beyond the prototype stage. 

I will try and find proof of this, which might take me a while, but I do remember it appearing in a British motoring magazine c.1992-ish.  Watch this space!
Title: Re: Q496 - solved - MVM
Post by: Arunas on November 11, 2009, 02:55:09 PM
Quote from: Quiller on November 11, 2009, 02:29:58 PM
Quote from: Arunas on November 11, 2009, 01:02:48 PM
I'll go for MVM.

We have a winner!  :applause:

WoW, lucky guess :) But is it possible to know where did You find such a rare picture of this car?
Title: Re: Q496 - solved - MVM
Post by: Quiller on November 11, 2009, 04:48:50 PM
Another car from Guernsey, huh?! My thumbs are atwitch, Mr DJ....

The image came from, as far as I recall, an article in the magazine of the Register of Unusual Microcars (great club!)
Title: Re: Q496 - solved - MVM
Post by: Wendax on December 23, 2011, 04:38:17 PM
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