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Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2016 => Topic started by: nicanary on October 19, 2016, 06:23:22 AM

Title: Solved NIC#691 - 1901 Decauville
Post by: nicanary on October 19, 2016, 06:23:22 AM
Year and marque please. Nice and easy.
Title: Re: NIC#691
Post by: Allan L on October 19, 2016, 07:43:57 AM
I was going to post this one sometime . . . .
Title: Re: NIC#691
Post by: nicanary on December 15, 2016, 08:32:26 AM
Experts?
Title: Re: NIC#691
Post by: Allan L on December 15, 2016, 09:23:35 AM
As I was saying . . .
It's a 1901 8½ h.p. Decauville in its two-seater mode. It has a detachable rear-entrance tonneau if you want it to be suitable for a family outing and that's it in this photo.
I happen to know that it once also had an alternative bread-van rear body but I have no photo of it to hand.
Title: Re: NIC#691
Post by: nicanary on December 15, 2016, 10:25:20 AM
Our resident "veterans" expert wins the point.
Title: Re: NIC#691
Post by: Allan L on December 15, 2016, 11:13:56 AM
Quote from: nicanary on December 15, 2016, 10:25:20 AM
Our resident "veterans" expert wins the point.
Thanks, but it didn't require much expertise as I was with a previous owner when he first inspected the car with a view to buying it. 
It wasn't this model, but around its time an electrical engineer called Henry Royce was shown a Decauville and decided it wasn't much good and he could do better - so he did and with some encouragement from the Hon C.S. Rolls tried again and did better still.