Solved - NEH 3847: Rochdale-bodied TVR at TVR factory or Rochdale Motor Panels

[Carnut]

What's this, based on what and pictured where - for 1 point?:

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[Carnut]

Experts?

[frederick59]

Aston Martin?

[fyreline]

When I first saw it, I thought "Connaught ASLR" . . . but the front end doesn't look quite right. I'm still looking . . .

[Carnut]

Neither Aston Martin nor Connaught..

[frederick59]

Could it be a modified Talbot Lago T26?

[fyreline]

I think that this is a TVR Type C, with a body by Rochdale which was made from molds taken from a damaged Connaught ASLR brought in to Rochdale Motor Panels for repairs (I just KNEW that it looked like a Connaught!). This would have been about 1955. The photo was likely taken at TVR in Blackpool. I don't know if they made any others, although it would seem like an awful lot of work taking molds off of the Connaught just to do one car?

[Carnut]

Indeed that's what it is; the picture is taken at the TVR factory in Beverley Grove, Blackpool.
I guess there were a few Rochdales with this body but I believe this is the only one fitted to a TVR chassis.
Well done!

[nicanary]

The front grille came from a Bond Minicar.

A car with one of these Rochdale bodies was regularly featured on the front cover of Brands Hatch programmes around 1957 - I'll have to try and find out exactly what it was.

Here it is - actually it would have made a good puzzle. It's the car of John Horridge, and is in fact a Lister-Bristol registered DEN275, with a Rochdale type C body. Nota Bene the typical Bristol twin exhausts.

Sorry- that image won't upload - here's a different one.

[DUFFY]

The chassis is a Lister and the photo was taken at Rochdale Motor Panels, Hudson Street, Rochdale, Lancs.