SOLVED: Djetset #429 - JARC Motors Little Horse Mark III

[Djetset]

Make and full model name please for an easy point.

[barrett]

Not actually a repost!
Nice image, the first I've actually seen of this car...

[Djetset]

I guess this one won't be staying very long in the Experts section 

[pguillem]

Anzani Astra utility ?

[Djetset]

No, not that.

[Carnut]

I was going to say Astra Utility as well but if it's not one of those then how about a Gill Getabout?
That's what the Astra Utility morphed into for the second part of its life!

[Djetset]

I get your thinking, but it's not a Gill either.

[Carnut]

No, don't think Gill actually ever produced it as a van.
So perhaps it's the Little Horse by JARC Motors, who actually designed and first built the thing in 1954 before it became the British Anzani Astra.  Believe the Little Horse also used the British Anzani engine?

[Djetset]

Yes, I'll give you that one, as it is in fact specifically the JARC Little Horse Mark III (I'm astonished that there were Mark I and II versions).  Well done, another point to your tally.

[Carnut]

Yes, I'll give you that one, as it is in fact specifically the JARC Little Horse Mark III (I'm astonished that there were Mark I and II versions).  Well done, another point to your tally.

I'm astonished that there was a Mk III version!!!

[barrett]

Well, today I had a migraine so I decided to stay in bed and rest... and it seems I missed out on about 8 points! In future I will repeat to myself 'Puzzle first, rest later' over and over again....

Anyway, here is something I wrote about the JARC/Astra story over on another website. There is nothing else that could be considered a puzzle car over there so I hope posting this link will be okay (and I think now we have had every incarnation of this car as a puzzle?)
http://autoshite.com/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=9873

[Djetset]

As a fellow migrane sufferer, you have my sympathy, but it's a shame you have had to learn the hard way that puzzling always comes first!  (only kidding).

Thanks for the introduction to the Autoshite site; looks like the sort of car crap I like.  So, that's another 25% of my life now set to be wasted on-line!!

[Carnut]

What an unkind name for these poor little cars!
You have to remember just how austere times were back in the early 1950s, and there were plenty of optimists who thought people were going to be looking for something very very simple and cheap to run - anything just to get them mobile.  Hence the plethora of bubble cars and microcars, without which the world would be a very much poorer place for us AutoPuzzlers!

All of them, almost without exception, were undriveable crap!

There are still these optimists around, but now they all think they can make a 300 mph supercar...

[Djetset]

These days the optimists dream of making electric 300mph supercars with zero emissions and a range of 500 miles!

These make 1950s microcars look quite sensible