Solved: DAR 40 Tojeiro-Bristol (1957)

[D-type]

Chassis, engine and year please?

[D-type]

No interest from the Rookies, so it's up to the Experts.

[mekubb]

Mid fifties Lotus ?

[D-type]

No, not a Lotus.

[mekubb]

Bristol-powered ?

[knewit]

Bristol-Warrior 2 litre

[sichel]

Jaguar engine?

[D-type]

Bristol powered but not a Warrior.

[BattlePorQ]

Lister?

[D-type]

Not a Lister

[mekubb]

1954 Tojeiro-Bristol ?

[D-type]

Tojeiro-Bristol: Yes
1954: Not the year i have for this photo.

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[mekubb]

Probably from a later date, 1959 ?

[D-type]

Not that late.  I think it is a car built in 1954 or so and photographed later, in the year it appears most often in records posted on the usual Internet sites.

[mekubb]

Must be pictured around 1956/1957 then ?

[D-type]

I have it as a Tojeiro-MG from 1957.  A point is on its way.

[mekubb]

Thank you. In the header you write Tojeiro-MG in stead of Tojeiro-Bristol ?

[Lavrakas]

Body designed by Cavendish Morton?

[D-type]

Body designed by Cavendish Morton?

I don't know.

[D-type]

Thank you. In the header you write Tojeiro-MG in stead of Tojeiro-Bristol ?

Whoops!  Let's hope an admin can correct it.  I can't see a way that I can.

[nicanary]

Done.

(It has been observed that the bonnet line is rather low for a Bristol motor, and the air intake would correspond to the SU carbs for an MG engine. Just an observation)

[D-type]

I agree that it looks a little low for a Bristol engine, but it does appear set well back in the chassis.  It doesn't look like pictures of any other Tojeiro, whether Climax, MG, Butterworth, or Jaguar powered.  I therefore took the caption of Tojeiro-Bristol as correct.  Unfortunately I don't have a copy of the John Tojeiro biography, which presumably includes pictures of most of his cars.