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Title: Solved NIC #48 - Arrol-Aster 17/50 in the 1929 Tourist Trophy
Post by: nicanary on October 27, 2013, 07:27:37 AM
What is this car, and at what event is it racing ?

Title: Re: NIC #48
Post by: Allan L on October 30, 2013, 07:15:58 PM
Ah yes, but will it still be here when I'm allowed to say I know?
Title: Re: NIC #48
Post by: nicanary on October 30, 2013, 07:39:35 PM
Quote from: Allan L on October 30, 2013, 07:15:58 PM
Ah yes, but will it still be here when I'm allowed to say I know?

See my comments on the "other" puzzle. :)
Title: Re: NIC #48
Post by: Otto Puzzell on October 31, 2013, 04:57:46 AM
I've removed a clue that you left in the original pic.  :)
Title: Re: NIC #48
Post by: nicanary on October 31, 2013, 06:47:05 AM
Quote from: Otto Puzzell on October 31, 2013, 04:57:46 AM
I've removed a clue that you left in the original pic.  :)

Thanks. I always reckon nobody would bother to go to that trouble, since the photo library of that organisation would contain possibly millions of images. But you never know......
Title: Re: NIC #48
Post by: nicanary on November 05, 2013, 12:22:24 PM
Experts?
Title: Re: NIC #48
Post by: D-type on November 05, 2013, 02:46:01 PM
Lagonda?
Competing in the 1936 Tourist Trophy
Title: Re: NIC #48
Post by: nicanary on November 05, 2013, 02:59:28 PM
Quote from: D-type on November 05, 2013, 02:46:01 PM
Lagonda?
Competing in the 1936 Tourist Trophy

Not a Lagonda. It is the Tourist Trophy, but not 1936.
Title: Re: NIC #48
Post by: mekubb on November 05, 2013, 04:13:34 PM
1929 Ards TT, the car is a Arrol-Aster
Title: Re: NIC #48
Post by: nicanary on November 05, 2013, 04:21:09 PM
Quote from: mekubb on November 05, 2013, 04:13:34 PM
1929 Ards TT, the car is a Arrol-Aster

Correct. Arrol-Aster 17/50 in the 1929 Ards Tourist Trophy. Two cars were entered (rather optimistically) driven by Norman Garrad and the endurance specialist Eddie Hall. Even with a Cozette supercharger the top speed was 72mph.
Title: Re: Solved NIC #48 - Arrol-Aster 17/50 in the 1929 Tourist Trophy
Post by: Allan L on November 05, 2013, 05:11:33 PM
Quite an enterprising use of a supercharger with sleeve valves - at least they used the Burt-McCollum single sleeve, not the Knight double sleeve system! Mind you several sleeve-valve aero engines were supercharged.
Can't remember if it was the same Norman Garrad that was the Rootes Group competitions man in the 1960s/70s