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Title: Solved: Wendax 1537 - M.M.C. 20 hp
Post by: Wendax on March 18, 2015, 03:38:21 AM
Another old one.

For one point, please respond and identify this car.
Title: Re: Wendax 1537
Post by: Wendax on March 25, 2015, 06:25:15 PM
up
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Post by: Wendax on April 01, 2015, 02:37:01 AM
up again
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Post by: 4popoid on April 01, 2015, 02:43:13 AM
European marque?
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Post by: Wendax on April 01, 2015, 03:16:38 AM
Yes
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Post by: 4popoid on April 01, 2015, 03:20:18 AM
Manufactured in the UK?
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Post by: Wendax on April 01, 2015, 03:35:15 AM
Yes
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Post by: 4popoid on April 01, 2015, 03:55:52 AM
Korte by Rice & Co. Ltd., of Leeds, Yorkshire, UK circa 1903?
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Post by: Arunas on April 01, 2015, 04:02:06 AM
Iden?
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Post by: Wendax on April 01, 2015, 04:17:50 AM
Twice no
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Post by: Allan L on April 01, 2015, 04:27:43 AM
Perhaps it's a Weir-built Darracq of about 1904
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Post by: Wendax on April 01, 2015, 04:38:28 AM
No
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Post by: grobmotorix on April 01, 2015, 05:17:18 PM
Is it a ca. 1900 Napier?
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Post by: 4popoid on April 01, 2015, 10:37:38 PM
Victrix by the Victrix Motor Works of Kendal, Westmorland, UK circa 1903?
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Post by: Arunas on April 02, 2015, 12:46:39 AM
Bristol?
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Post by: Wendax on April 02, 2015, 02:39:48 AM
Three times no
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Post by: 4popoid on April 02, 2015, 04:30:32 AM
Beaufort by the Beaufort Motor Company of London circa 1903?
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Post by: Wendax on April 02, 2015, 04:34:20 AM
No
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Post by: 4popoid on April 02, 2015, 02:36:31 PM
Was the manufacturer of this vehicle active after 1905?
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Post by: Wendax on April 02, 2015, 03:52:54 PM
Yes
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Post by: 4popoid on April 02, 2015, 04:42:36 PM
Was the manufacturer of this vehicle active after 1910?
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Post by: Wendax on April 02, 2015, 05:45:21 PM
No
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Post by: 4popoid on April 02, 2015, 06:44:21 PM
Circa 1904 Century (10 hp - 2 cyl.?) by the Century Engineering & Motor Co. Ltd., Willesden, London,  UK?
Title: Re: Wendax 1537
Post by: Wendax on April 03, 2015, 04:00:34 AM
Not a Century, although there is a loose connection.
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Post by: 4popoid on April 03, 2015, 04:15:28 AM
Circa 1903 MMC (10 hp - 2 cyl.?) by: The Motor Manufacturing Co. Ltd., Coventry, United Kingdom?
Title: Re: Wendax 1537
Post by: Wendax on April 03, 2015, 04:17:54 AM
You got my hint.  :)
It is a M.M.C., but not the 10 hp. Locked for you to find the right model.
Title: Re: Wendax 1537
Post by: 4popoid on April 03, 2015, 04:24:06 AM
MMC was going to be my next try before the hint, but the hint cinched it.  Assuming my estimate of 1903 is correct, this must be the one cylinder 8 HP (1021 cc).
Title: Re: Wendax 1537
Post by: Wendax on April 03, 2015, 04:28:23 AM
1903 is correct, but it isn't an 8 hp.
Title: Re: Wendax 1537
Post by: 4popoid on April 03, 2015, 04:34:55 AM
Well, if my MMC reference is correct, the only other MMC model in 1903 was the four cylinder 20 HP (somewhere in the 1902-1904 model run it was uprated to 25 HP).
Title: Re: Wendax 1537
Post by: Wendax on April 03, 2015, 04:52:16 AM
That's what it is:
Title: Re: Solved: Wendax 1537 - M.M.C. 20 hp
Post by: 4popoid on April 03, 2015, 05:02:50 AM
Thanks Gerd.  Interesting that you should post the 12 HP as well.  I was afraid the 20 HP might be too large, and so went looking for other references.  I found a reference that says MMC showed a 12 HP at a January 1903 show, as well as the 6, 8, & 20 HP models.  I'm not sure why my first reference makes no mention of a 1903 12 HP model.