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Title: Solved - NEH 4690: Deurmekaar built in South Africa on 1937 Austin 7 base
Post by: Carnut on May 31, 2016, 07:39:20 AM
What's this, from when, based on what - for 1 point?:

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Title: Re: NEH 4690
Post by: Carnut on June 14, 2016, 04:58:15 AM
Experts?
Title: Re: NEH 4690
Post by: shamrock on June 18, 2016, 03:32:28 PM
Ritecar
Title: Re: NEH 4690
Post by: Carnut on June 21, 2016, 10:17:50 AM
Quote from: shamrock on June 18, 2016, 03:32:28 PM
Ritecar

No connection!
Title: Re: NEH 4690
Post by: gilescooperuk on June 23, 2016, 02:05:52 AM
Looking at the wheels is it a full size car or a child's vehicle?
Title: Re: NEH 4690
Post by: Carnut on June 27, 2016, 06:41:03 AM
Quote from: gilescooperuk on June 23, 2016, 02:05:52 AM
Looking at the wheels is it a full size car or a child's vehicle?

It's not a child's car.
Title: Re: NEH 4690
Post by: Carnut on July 12, 2016, 04:08:57 AM
Pro's?
Title: Re: NEH 4690
Post by: oko94 on July 12, 2016, 07:54:42 AM
Is it a modern creation with a retro style, or a genuine classic car ?
Title: Re: NEH 4690
Post by: Carnut on July 12, 2016, 08:07:33 AM
Quote from: oko94 on July 12, 2016, 07:54:42 AM
Is it a modern creation with a retro style, or a genuine classic car ?

It's not as old as the car on which it is based, but I believe it's not recently built either.
Title: Re: NEH 4690
Post by: oko94 on July 12, 2016, 08:09:27 AM
Based on a British car ?
Title: Re: NEH 4690
Post by: Wendax on July 12, 2016, 08:14:49 AM
Based on a Berkeley?
Title: Re: NEH 4690
Post by: nicanary on July 12, 2016, 08:47:07 AM
1937 Deurmekaar based on an Austin 7hp. Built in South Africa.

(Your replies gave me the clue. Thanks. I thought that was the Bourton-on-the-Water museum and I was right, but my Google Images search didn't find the car there when I tried earleir today).
Title: Re: NEH 4690
Post by: Carnut on July 12, 2016, 08:55:59 AM
Quote from: oko94 on July 12, 2016, 08:09:27 AM
Based on a British car ?
Quote from: Wendax on July 12, 2016, 08:14:49 AM
Based on a Berkeley?

Yes and No, but...

Quote from: nicanary on July 12, 2016, 08:47:07 AM
1937 Deurmekaar based on an Austin 7hp. Built in South Africa.

(Your replies gave me the clue. Thanks. I thought that was the Bourton-on-the-Water museum and I was right, but my Google Images search didn't find the car there when I tried earleir today).

..the puzzle is now solved because this is the right answer!
I would imagine the car was probably built in the 1950s on a 1937 Austin 7 but maybe the blurb at the museum will say..

Well done!
Title: Re: Solved - NEH 4690: Deurmekaar built in South Africa on 1937 Austin 7 base
Post by: nicanary on July 12, 2016, 09:01:54 AM
The wheels are very small. I wonder what gearing they used.
Title: Re: Solved - NEH 4690: Deurmekaar built in South Africa on 1937 Austin 7 base
Post by: Wendax on July 12, 2016, 09:02:58 AM
An Italian caption of the Wikimedia picture says: Miniature car with a combustion engine, replication of the model Riley Brooklands. Built in a single original, in the second half of the '30s, by Gustave Maclure, designer of the Rolls Royce and Riley, and his brother Percy, pilot of Riley, for his son Peter. With this small car, the ten-year-old Peter Maclure established the record for miniature cars, at the Donington circuit in 1937.
Title: Re: Solved - NEH 4690: Deurmekaar built in South Africa on 1937 Austin 7 base
Post by: nicanary on July 12, 2016, 09:14:43 AM
Wikimedia are wrong. This is the Peter Maclure miniature Riley, which actually looks like a Riley!
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