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Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2013 => Topic started by: sixtee5cuda on October 24, 2013, 11:16:00 PM

Title: SOLVED: WTH # 281 - 1923 Delage GL Saloon by Barker
Post by: sixtee5cuda on October 24, 2013, 11:16:00 PM
For one point, provide the year, make, model, and coachbuilder of this stylish sedan
Title: Re: WTH # 281
Post by: sixtee5cuda on November 05, 2013, 09:01:00 PM
Is this car so anonymous, the Experts are going to ignore it?
Title: Re: WTH # 281
Post by: sixtee5cuda on November 08, 2013, 11:35:33 PM
Up!

Time for the Professionals to earn a point
Title: Re: WTH # 281
Post by: targhediferro on November 09, 2013, 03:57:26 AM
I suppose it is an Imperia 15.9 hp from 1914-5. It looks like a British coachbuilder's job.
Title: Re: WTH # 281
Post by: sixtee5cuda on November 09, 2013, 08:24:28 AM
Not an Imperia, slightly newer.  The coachbuilder was British.
Title: Re: WTH # 281
Post by: Paul Jaray on November 09, 2013, 08:36:03 AM
Hamshaw, 1924?
Title: Re: WTH # 281
Post by: sixtee5cuda on November 09, 2013, 08:38:16 AM
The car was built in 1923, not by Hamshaw
Title: Re: WTH # 281
Post by: targhediferro on November 09, 2013, 08:58:47 AM
Quote from: targhediferro on November 09, 2013, 03:57:26 AM
I suppose it is an Imperia 15.9 hp from 1914-5. It looks like a British coachbuilder's job.
I gave you an answer I had in my mind for another quiz :-[, of course the car isn't from 1914...
Is it an Armstrong-Siddeley?
Title: Re: WTH # 281
Post by: Paul Jaray on November 09, 2013, 09:07:36 AM
I found the same background in at least a dozen of different pics of different coachbuilders...it has to be a quite known location!
But it won't help, I know...
Title: Re: WTH # 281
Post by: sixtee5cuda on November 09, 2013, 09:11:29 AM
Not an Armstrong-Siddeley
Title: Re: WTH # 281
Post by: João on November 09, 2013, 09:27:10 AM
It´s a 1924 Delage DI Saloon by Barker.
Title: Re: WTH # 281
Post by: Paul Jaray on November 09, 2013, 09:31:02 AM
Aaargh! I look into Georgano's Coachbuilders and in Walker's A-Z book...and it was on Georgano's new Encyclopedia, pag.187 !
Title: Re: WTH # 281
Post by: sixtee5cuda on November 09, 2013, 12:15:16 PM
I have awarded a point to João, as he provided the correct make and coachbuilder.  It is a 1923 Delage GL Saloon by Barker.

Paul Jaray is absolutely correct, as to the source of the image.  I was browsing through the book and noticed, this auto was not pictured anywhere on the webs.
Title: Re: SOLVED: WTH # 281 - 1923 Delage GL Saloon by Barker
Post by: João on November 09, 2013, 07:31:36 PM
Thank you!  ;)
Title: Re: SOLVED: WTH # 281 - 1923 Delage GL Saloon by Barker
Post by: targhediferro on November 10, 2013, 05:23:55 PM
It's unbelievable how, after you know the correct answer, you can find a lot of clues in the picture that make you thinking: "How could I miss to see it!"...in this case I think that the radiator design should have got Delage up to my mind.