Make and model please.
Experts?
American
English
Sunbeam
Pros ?
It looks like one of those various ca. 1925 Austin Seven Brooklands Specials?
Quote from: grobmotorix on January 06, 2019, 11:59:00 AM
It looks like one of those various ca. 1925 Austin Seven Brooklands Specials?
It is from the 1920s, and it was built for Brooklands. but it's not an Austin.
Talbot-Darracq?
Gwynne-powered GN of H.S. Eaton, at Essex Meeting, October 1924.
Technical details:
"[Eaton] drove his GN successfully in sprint events. For the Track he put a Gwynne Eight engine into the GN, after this 950 cc push-rod ohv power unit had been highly tuned by Laystall's, and was claimed to reach 6,000 rpm. The driver's seat was arranged over the GN back axle. Gordon England made the body, which was a thoroughly streamlined single seater with cowled radiator and valance. The car made its debut at the 1924 Bexhill-on-Sea Speed Trials and ran that year at South Harting hill-climb when it broke a valve spring."
[Edited for clarification and additional details]
Quote from: gte4289 on January 07, 2019, 11:08:12 PM
Gwynne-powered GN of H.S. Eaton, at Essex Meeting, October 1924.
Technical details:
"[Eaton] drove his GN successfully in sprint events. For the Track he put a Gwynne Eight engine into the GN, after this 950 cc push-rod ohv power unit had been highly tuned by Laystall's, and was claimed to reach 6,000 rpm. The driver's seat was arranged over the GN back axle. Gordon England made the body, which was a thoroughly streamlined single seater with cowled radiator and valance. The car made its debut at the 1924 Bexhill-on-Sea Speed Trials and ran that year at South Harting hill-climb when it broke a valve spring."
A clearer image:
That's the car, and well found. I hadn't researched the car sufficiently and didn't know about the GN connection - it was described as a Gwynne 8 in my source,
Another of my puzzles which reaches the Pros and lasts only a few days!
Quote from: nicanary on January 08, 2019, 03:50:52 AM
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Another of my puzzles which reaches the Pros and lasts only a few days!
That's the way it should be. ;)
According to Bill Boddy's History of Brooklands, this car was built for, and raced by, Ernest Eldridge. His desription of the car could be none other than the puzzle car, so someone's wrong somewhere. Not that it matters all that much.
Quote from: nicanary on January 08, 2019, 03:50:52 AM
That's the car, and well found. I hadn't researched the car sufficiently and didn't know about the GN connection - it was described as a Gwynne 8 in my source.
The location of the front axle is certainly GN and not Gwynne - the latter had normal semi-elliptic front springing as I could show you if the other Gwynne threads had their photos visible.
Bill Boddy was known to err on occasions - not that he would admit to it.