Who knows this 1947 prototype?
EDIT:
now that this one is solved I would really love to know more about this electric prototype.
The German text on the back of this press photo speaks of the
"Beaumont-Werke" (Beaumont - Works) from Lytham St Annes.
Here is my hopefully correct translation of the german text:
The recently initiated fuel rationing that has been met with strong disapproval by the car owners in some cases even led to public protests.
Mr. Beaumont thought he has found a way out of this rationing by constructing an electrically driven car.
It will be launched for a price of 120 pound sterling by the Beaumont works of Lytham St Annes.
The two-seater car is said to be capable of driving 60km with a fully-charged battery and it could reach a top speed of 40km/h.
Our photo shows a model of this new British electric car.
10.December 1947
Unfortunately I did not find ANY traces of that company.
Who knows more?
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was this interesting car a british prototype of a well-known brand?
Quotewas this interesting car a british prototype of a well-known brand?
British - yes
well-known brand - no...
was there any relation to the Lilliput sports roadster? somehow it reminds me of it.
Lilliput
1940s and rear-engined?
was the builder of this car quite an obscure person?
1940´s, yes.
My source was a press photo and it was released 1947.
The car was built and presented by a company in the UK.
the co. that presented this car,did they build other products as well as cars?
I am quite sure yes.
My source talks of the producing company as the XXX-Works...
Only that I can´t find out too much about them or what they produced before or after they showed this prototype.
I feel I should know this but as I don't I'm not sure where to start.
1947 was a good year for cars that had been dreamed up by people on fire-watch duty during the war, such as the Healey. Another class involved aeroplane companies looking for diversification after the main customer (the RAF) had a reduced need for their normal product (e.g. Bristol). Can't have been one of those as their other products were hardly obscure.
This is why I can´t help too much.
The only thing I can reveal is:
it was built in Lancashire.
was it named after the builder?
No.
In fact it was named after the works´name, which sound quite nice / French... ;)
was it an industrial type works?
The problem I have is that the press photo was released in Germany in 1947, so it has a German press text on its rear side.
Unfortunate it just says it was built in the "XXXXXXXX-Werke".
That´s all - I do not have an exact company name like -Works or -Ltd., so I was not ablr to find it...
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do we need to find a probably misspelled name :)?
I do not think so.
Let´s help massively - I want this to be solved as I want to get any more information about this one...
The first part of the name stands for "attractive" or "nice" in French.
Beauchamp?
Beau is correct
Beauchamp
Beaulieu?
Beaufort?
Beaucoup?
;D
Beauchamp
Beaucoup
Beaufort
Beaulieu
Beaumont?
We got a winner!
Now I would really love to find out more about this interesting 1947 Beaumont electric car prototype...
I rewrote the original press text from the back of the photo for those who can read German:
Thanks very much for the point! :D I hope there is more information as well.
Here is my hopefully correct translation of the german press photo text:
The recently initiated fuel rationing that has been met with strong disapproval by the car owners in some cases even led to public protests.
Mr. Beaumont thought he has found a way out of this rationing by constructing an electrically driven car.
It will be launched for a price of 120 pound sterling by the Beaumont works of Lytham St Annes.
The two-seater car is said to be capable of driving 60km with a fully-charged battery and it could reach a top speed of 40km/h.
Our photo shows a model of this new British electric car.
10.December 1947
Translation very good but I've made a couple of minor changes.
Although Lytham and St Annes on Sea are technically two different towns they run into each other with no discernable boundaries and are twins, always being lumped together as "Lytham St Annes".
Thank you - I changed the texts and the puzzle title.