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Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2017 => Topic started by: el_monty on July 07, 2017, 09:56:03 AM

Title: Monty170 - Solved: 1914 Wilton 10-20 HP
Post by: el_monty on July 07, 2017, 09:56:03 AM
Fellow Autopuzzlers, for a point please tell me what is this car, and from which year.

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Title: Re: Monty170
Post by: el_monty on July 23, 2017, 11:22:25 AM
Up to the Experts
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Post by: FrontMan on July 23, 2017, 12:41:42 PM
.....let's have a go at Marlborough 1914.
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Post by: el_monty on July 24, 2017, 03:32:32 AM
It's not a Marlborough, but 1914 is spot-on!
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Post by: Fёdor on July 24, 2017, 05:11:34 AM
Lagonda
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Post by: el_monty on July 24, 2017, 05:52:42 AM
Not Lagonda
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Post by: Fёdor on July 24, 2017, 06:33:24 AM
A.C.
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Post by: el_monty on July 24, 2017, 06:37:31 AM
Not AC. It's from a small, lesser-known marque.
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Post by: FrontMan on July 27, 2017, 08:06:24 AM
Turner.
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Post by: el_monty on July 27, 2017, 10:18:23 AM
Not Turner.
AC was closer geographically.
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Post by: Fёdor on July 27, 2017, 11:05:22 AM
 Wilton 10-20hp Two-seater 1914
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Post by: el_monty on July 28, 2017, 03:03:31 AM
Well found!
From Prewarcar, 2015:
"How many people can claim to drive a car built by one of their antecedents? Roy Halsall is one of this tiny minority of old-car enthusiasts, owning a rare Wilton 10/20 tourer that was built by the company founded by his grandfather, Charles Frederick Halsall, in 1914.

Charles started out making bicycles back in 1896, aged 14. By 1912 he was offering cycles powered by small engines, and that same year experimented with his first four-wheeled vehicle. It was a cyclecar powered by a JAP engine, very much in the spirit of the times, but when full production commenced in 1913 it had metamorphosed into a 'proper' light car, with a water-cooled 1095cc Ballot engine mounted behind a curved brass radiator. Charles's 'factory' was a tiny building behind his cycle shop in Wilton Road, Victoria, London, the location providing a name for the cars.

Production was slow, given the constraints of space and labour, and only a few Wiltons were built. It was thought that none survived until Roy Halsall located this car, the fourth made, in Australia. He has painstakingly restored the car over the last seven years and it is now in as-new condition."