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Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2011 => Topic started by: gilescooperuk on August 23, 2011, 03:04:26 PM

Title: GC036 1924 Cottin & Desgouttes Type 16 M3S with a British Weymann body
Post by: gilescooperuk on August 23, 2011, 03:04:26 PM

Name and any additional info you have please.

Title: Re: GC036 1924 Cottin & Desgouttes Type 16 M3S with a British Weymann body
Post by: roger on August 23, 2011, 06:54:45 PM

Looks like an Essex, don't know anything about them though

Title: Re: GC036 1924 Cottin & Desgouttes Type 16 M3S with a British Weymann body
Post by: gilescooperuk on August 24, 2011, 01:56:28 PM

Not an Essex

Title: Re: GC036 1924 Cottin & Desgouttes Type 16 M3S with a British Weymann body
Post by: gilescooperuk on September 01, 2011, 03:54:23 PM

time to apply some expert knowledge

Title: Re: GC036 1924 Cottin & Desgouttes Type 16 M3S with a British Weymann body
Post by: Tackitt on September 01, 2011, 05:41:04 PM

Minerva?

Title: Re: GC036 1924 Cottin & Desgouttes Type 16 M3S with a British Weymann body
Post by: gilescooperuk on September 01, 2011, 06:51:28 PM

no not minerva

Title: Re: GC036 1924 Cottin & Desgouttes Type 16 M3S with a British Weymann body
Post by: gilescooperuk on September 08, 2011, 06:36:29 PM

to the pros - and it is google image proof....

Title: Re: GC036 1924 Cottin & Desgouttes Type 16 M3S with a British Weymann body
Post by: Allan L on September 09, 2011, 04:13:47 AM

Well I've spent too much time on this one!
To me that's obviously a Lanchester but the radiator top tank seems too shallow for an early 1920s 40 or 21 which would go with the BE tyres. Wire wheels and front brakes on a 21 would be late 1920s by which time WB wheel rims and wired-on tyres would be the thing.
The body and in particular the windscreen are unfamiliar.

Here's a later (1930) example I posted some 3½ years ago
(http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=3452.0;attach=1387;image)

Title: Re: GC036 1924 Cottin & Desgouttes Type 16 M3S with a British Weymann body
Post by: gilescooperuk on September 11, 2011, 05:35:46 AM

It isn't a Lanchester, although I have to agree the radiator looks very similar.

In fact the chassis isn't British.

Title: Re: GC036 1924 Cottin & Desgouttes Type 16 M3S with a British Weymann body
Post by: Ehhxekt on September 11, 2011, 08:34:48 AM

I just stumbled on it by chance: 1924 Cottin & Desgouttes Type 16 M3S with a British Weymann body.

Title: Re: GC036 1924 Cottin & Desgouttes Type 16 M3S with a British Weymann body
Post by: gilescooperuk on September 11, 2011, 05:20:01 PM

I'm surprised it got found that quickly. Especially when I supply the quote from the information form on the car.

French car with English body rescued from scrapyard in Leicestershire in 1950 by current owners father, was restored and used as everyday car for 24 years. Then on and off road, recent repaint and new tyres