Can you identify this racer? Make, model and year to have a point.
experts?
Italian ? OM ?
JCC 200-mile race at Brooklands - Britsh maker?
Quote from: mekubb on February 06, 2013, 08:49:55 AM
Italian ? OM ?
Not Italian and obviously not OM.
Quote from: nicanary on February 06, 2013, 09:06:18 AM
JCC 200-mile race at Brooklands - Britsh maker?
Yes it's 200 mile race at Brooklands and the maker is British.
Sunbeam ?
I've just trawled through the archive pics of all the races, and all I have found is the unclothed chassis of a possibility - 1924 Austin 7 bodied by Gordon England. ??
not a Sunbeam and not an Austin 7, sorry
Singer 9
1928
not a Singer.
Even though it's not zebra-striped is it a Straker-Squire from about 1925?
Hillman?
Quote from: D-type on February 07, 2013, 04:12:49 PM
Even though it's not zebra-striped is it a Straker-Squire from about 1925?
Not that strange car.
Quote from: nicanary on February 08, 2013, 05:21:43 AM
Hillman?
Not an Hillman.
There's a really good website with lots of photos of most of the races, and I've been through them all.
To help my fellow puzzlers, it's not
Gwynne
Horstmann
AC
Warwick
Enfield Allday
Vauxhall
Wolseley
Lagonda
Deemster
Eric Campbell
Eric Longden
Marlborough Thomas
We know it's British, so who's got entry lists for the 1920s races? Where's Bill Boddy when you need him?
You're wrong in a point!
OK - maybe it's an AC in the 1924 race
Not AC sorry.
Eric longden?
Not Eric.
1921 Lagonda 11.1hp(?)
not a Lagonda.
We'll try Vauxhall.
neither a vauxhall.
Enfield Allday?
That's right. Locked for you to add model and year.
10/20 . 1921,
Sorry, make that 1922, I've just found a similar image on "lost marques" website. Interestingly, the site has two photos of Enfield-Allday cars which took part in 1922, and they are totally different. One in numbered 73 (very unlikely number for that race), and has a high chassis and looks more like a sports version of the standard car. That's what made me state earlier that the puzzle couldn't be an E-A car. The other image is very similar indeed to the puzzle, minus the racing numbers.s
Ok, right answer. I'll post the unmodified picture to prove that the quiz car is really an Enfield-Alldays.
Quote from: nicanary on February 09, 2013, 09:23:05 AM
10/20 . 1921,
Sorry, make that 1922, I've just found a similar image on "lost marques" website. Interestingly, the site has two photos of Enfield-Allday cars which took part in 1922, and they are totally different. One in numbered 73 (very unlikely number for that race), and has a high chassis and looks more like a sports version of the standard car. That's what made me state earlier that the puzzle couldn't be an E-A car. The other image is very similar indeed to the puzzle, minus the racing numbers.s
I've just realised that the 200-mile races were run for two classes - cyclecars and light cars. The puzzle photo was for the first class, and the other photo I found,with the production-type car, would have been for the larger class. Mystery probably solved.
This is the unmodified picture.