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Title: Solved NIC#252 - "The White Minor" of Barbara Bolster at Shelsley Walsh
Post by: nicanary on July 06, 2014, 10:33:12 AM
Back to historic motor sport. What is this car, and who is driving it?
Title: Re: NIC #252
Post by: nicanary on July 26, 2014, 06:05:32 AM
Experts?
Title: Re: NIC #252
Post by: mekubb on July 26, 2014, 04:29:31 PM
German ?
Title: Re: NIC #252
Post by: nicanary on July 26, 2014, 06:46:39 PM
Quote from: mekubb on July 26, 2014, 04:29:31 PM
German ?

The colour suggests it is, but it isn't!
Title: Re: NIC #252
Post by: D-type on July 31, 2014, 03:53:07 PM
British?
Title: Re: NIC #252
Post by: nicanary on July 31, 2014, 06:47:49 PM
Quote from: D-type on July 31, 2014, 03:53:07 PM
British?

Yes indeed.
Title: Re: NIC #252
Post by: D-type on August 01, 2014, 05:30:00 PM
Any Riley connection?
Title: Re: NIC #252
Post by: nicanary on August 01, 2014, 06:52:35 PM
Quote from: D-type on August 01, 2014, 05:30:00 PM
Any Riley connection?

No Riley connection at all.
Title: Re: NIC #252
Post by: D-type on August 02, 2014, 03:58:14 PM
MG based?
Title: Re: NIC #252
Post by: nicanary on August 02, 2014, 06:58:42 PM
Quote from: D-type on August 02, 2014, 03:58:14 PM
MG based?

Not MG based. Sorry.
Title: Re: NIC #252
Post by: D-type on August 07, 2014, 07:15:04 PM
A long, blind shot:  Is it Raymond mays in the Vauxhall-Villiers?
Title: Re: NIC #252
Post by: nicanary on August 08, 2014, 04:46:14 AM
Quote from: D-type on August 07, 2014, 07:15:04 PM
A long, blind shot:  Is it Raymond mays in the Vauxhall-Villiers?

Now that really was a long,blind shot! We've had that car before, and I solved it!

Much smaller car.
Title: Re: NIC #252
Post by: D-type on August 21, 2014, 03:30:19 PM
Small - not MG.  Austin 7 based?
Title: Re: NIC #252
Post by: nicanary on August 21, 2014, 06:51:18 PM
Quote from: D-type on August 21, 2014, 03:30:19 PM
Small - not MG.  Austin 7 based?

Not Austin either, but you're getting in the right direction.
Title: Re: NIC #252
Post by: D-type on September 17, 2014, 07:00:27 PM
Wolseley based?
Title: Re: NIC #252
Post by: nicanary on September 18, 2014, 06:12:07 AM
Quote from: D-type on September 17, 2014, 07:00:27 PM
Wolseley based?

Not that marque either, but you're still on the right lines.
Title: Re: NIC #252
Post by: D-type on September 18, 2014, 10:34:03 AM
Another Morris?
Title: Re: NIC #252
Post by: nicanary on September 18, 2014, 10:57:52 AM
Quote from: D-type on September 18, 2014, 10:34:03 AM
Another Morris?

Yes! What was the car known as, and who is driving it?
Title: Re: NIC #252
Post by: D-type on September 29, 2014, 04:14:13 PM
Is it a woman driver?  Kay Petre?
Title: Re: NIC #252
Post by: nicanary on September 29, 2014, 06:52:47 PM
Quote from: D-type on September 29, 2014, 04:14:13 PM
Is it a woman driver?  Kay Petre?

Yes, a woman driver. IMO not as well-known as Kay Petre, but she was from a well-known family, and married a well-known man!
Title: Re: NIC #252
Post by: D-type on October 01, 2014, 05:35:12 PM
Is the driver Gwenda Glubb/ Janson/ Stewart/ Hawkes ?
And the car the something Special?
Title: Re: NIC #252
Post by: nicanary on October 01, 2014, 06:52:02 PM
Quote from: D-type on October 01, 2014, 05:35:12 PM
Is the driver Gwenda Glubb/ Janson/ Stewart/ Hawkes ?
And the car the something Special?

Not her. And the car was not referred to as an anything "special".
Title: Re: NIC #252
Post by: nicanary on November 01, 2014, 07:46:37 AM
Easy one for the Pros.
Title: Re: NIC #252
Post by: serra on November 01, 2014, 10:20:19 AM
It is the Skinner Special or White Minor or with arbara Bolster at the June 1937 Shelsley
Title: Re: NIC #252
Post by: nicanary on November 01, 2014, 08:02:55 PM
Quote from: serra on November 01, 2014, 10:20:19 AM
It is the Skinner Special or White Minor or with arbara Bolster at the June 1937 Shelsley

Well done Esteban! I think Allan Lupton must be offline!

Barbara and Peter Skinner were the children of SU owner Carl Skinner and he gave them 2 very special Morris Minor cars which had been highly tuned and supercharged. Barbara's car was white and known as "The White Minor" and her brother's car was red.

By the time this photo was taken Barbara had married John Bolster.*

(*I dread to think what after-dinner stories she heard from her husband - hopefully the ladies withdrew to another room when the gentlemen had their port and cigars.)