Q496 - solved - MVM

[Quiller]

Ford components?

Looks more BMC to me

Neither Ford nor BMC engine.....

[pnegyesi]

Townend 581 by G&R Townend Ltd?

[Quiller]

Not that....

[Arunas]

I'll go for MVM.

[Quiller]

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.

[Djetset]

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!

[Arunas]

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?

[Quiller]

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!)

[Wendax]

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