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Title: Napier 40/50HP Pullman Cabriolet by Cunard
Post by: BERTRAND on May 30, 2023, 04:34:57 AM
Builder, model, coachbuilder and year please
Title: Re: BD889
Post by: BERTRAND on June 17, 2023, 05:09:30 AM
expert
Title: Re: BD889
Post by: Lavrakas on June 17, 2023, 06:03:42 PM
I was going to say this is the 1920 Napier type 75 40/50 with "an all-weather cabriolet" body by Cunard, registration number XW 2454 (and still going strong without the white-wall tyres), but I then found a French website with this actual photograph describing it as a 1916 30/35, which is a bit odd as, according to Napier expert Ronald Barker, the company stopped all car production in 1914 and no more 30/35s were made thereafter. I am guessing the website may have taken the photograph from the Illustrated London News magazine which in 1917/18 ran a regular motoring column with articles on what motorists might expect to see when the war ended; so perhaps this is a prototype 40/50 with an old 30/35 engine, the actual 40/50 engine being delayed due to the chief engineer AJ Rowledge being busy working on the Napier Lion engine. But that's just a guess.
Title: Re: BD889
Post by: BERTRAND on June 18, 2023, 01:37:06 PM
thanks for this long and correct answer.  For my part, I have 30/35HP but I trust you and change. 
Title: Re: Napier 40/50HP Pullman Cabriolet by Cunard
Post by: Lavrakas on June 18, 2023, 02:56:59 PM
Thank you!