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Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2011 => Topic started by: Tom_I on May 05, 2011, 10:04:25 AM

Title: TEI #016 - solved. Pashley 3-wheeler, 1953
Post by: Tom_I on May 05, 2011, 10:04:25 AM

You can never have too many three-wheelers, can you? ;D

What is the make and year of this one for a point?

Title: Re: TEI #016
Post by: magnette on May 05, 2011, 02:01:46 PM

Pashley - no idea if it was a particular model, but it had a 197cc engine and was only made for a few months in 1953 - I think it might be the prototype..

Title: Re: TEI #016
Post by: Tom_I on May 05, 2011, 02:22:33 PM

That's the one - another point for you.

This is indeed the prototype. As far as I know it's the only one that was ever made.

Title: Re: TEI #016 - solved. Pashley 3-wheeler, 1953
Post by: barrett on May 05, 2011, 03:28:24 PM

Interesting, I'd never heard of this one before. I take it it was made by the Pashley motorcycle company?

Title: Re: TEI #016 - solved. Pashley 3-wheeler, 1953
Post by: Tom_I on May 05, 2011, 05:57:48 PM

Yes, it was the only model you could really describe as a passenger car made by W R Pashley Ltd, then of Birmingham. They started out making bicycles, but after WW2 diversified into rickshaw type motorised tricycles and lightweight delivery vehicles.

The company still exists today, making hand-made cycles, and now based in Stratford-upon-Avon.

Title: Re: TEI #016 - solved. Pashley 3-wheeler, 1953
Post by: barrett on May 05, 2011, 06:55:10 PM

I may be wrong (I usually am) but I think that the three wheeled rickshaw-style vehicle they built called the Pelican was Britian's first plastic-bodied (not sure if it was GRP or what) production 'car'....

Title: Re: TEI #016 - solved. Pashley 3-wheeler, 1953
Post by: Tom_I on May 06, 2011, 05:38:59 AM

I don't know if it was the first, but the Pashley Pelican was certainly a very early example of GRP mouldings being used for vehicle bodywork.