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Title: Solved: GTE 321 - 1906 Morgan 24 HP Limousine
Post by: gte4289 on March 16, 2020, 07:40:23 PM
Identify this car for a point.
Title: Re: GTE 321
Post by: gte4289 on March 23, 2020, 12:38:56 AM
Experts?
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Post by: kwgibbs on March 23, 2020, 08:52:30 AM
Is it French?
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Post by: gte4289 on March 23, 2020, 12:32:16 PM
Quote from: kwgibbs on March 23, 2020, 08:52:30 AM
Is it French?
No
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Post by: kwgibbs on March 23, 2020, 12:49:06 PM
European?
Title: Re: GTE 321
Post by: gte4289 on March 23, 2020, 12:49:51 PM
Quote from: kwgibbs on March 23, 2020, 12:49:06 PM
European?
Yes
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Post by: kwgibbs on March 23, 2020, 12:56:07 PM
British?
Title: Re: GTE 321
Post by: gte4289 on March 23, 2020, 12:57:44 PM
Quote from: kwgibbs on March 23, 2020, 12:56:07 PM
British?
Yes
Title: Re: GTE 321
Post by: kwgibbs on March 23, 2020, 07:49:57 PM
An early Lanchester?
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Post by: gte4289 on March 23, 2020, 08:34:24 PM
Quote from: kwgibbs on March 23, 2020, 07:49:57 PM
An early Lanchester?
Not a Lanchester
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Post by: jimjarron on March 24, 2020, 12:34:07 AM
1905 Brown 12/14?
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Post by: gte4289 on March 24, 2020, 04:02:03 AM
Quote from: jimjarron on March 24, 2020, 12:34:07 AM
1905 Brown 12/14?
Not Brown
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Post by: jimjarron on March 24, 2020, 04:28:00 AM
1906/7 Morgan? (not the well known three wheeler and sports car Morgan, the other Morgan car company)
Title: Re: GTE 321
Post by: gte4289 on March 24, 2020, 11:23:49 AM
Quote from: jimjarron on March 24, 2020, 04:28:00 AM
1906/7 Morgan?
Yes. Locked for you to identify the model.
Title: Re: GTE 321
Post by: jimjarron on March 24, 2020, 09:11:18 PM
Morgan only made cars for less than two years. and, as far as I know, only one 24hp 5.2 litre model, with a variety of bodies available.  I am not aware of it having a model designation.  Their car manufacturing venture (or perhaps, more correctly, car assembling, as the cars were more or less Adlers with bodywork by Morgan) was not a success, and they went back to their previous occupation of coachbuilding, being particularly associated with Adlers and early Alvises.
Title: Re: GTE 321
Post by: gte4289 on March 24, 2020, 10:13:33 PM
Quote from: jimjarron on March 24, 2020, 09:11:18 PM
Morgan only made cars for less than two years. and, as far as I know, only one 24hp 5.2 litre model, with a variety of bodies available.  I am not aware of it having a model designation.  Their car manufacturing venture (or perhaps, more correctly, car assembling, as the cars were more or less Adlers with bodywork by Morgan) was not a success, and they went back to their previous occupation of coachbuilding, being particularly associated with Adlers and early Alvises.
It is a drawing used in 1906 to advertise Morgan's own 24 HP model (in this case, with limousine body). The engine and chassis for these cars were not by Adler, however, but were designed in-house by Morgan. As you point out, the cars did not sell well and so Morgan went back to being a coachbuilder of Adlers and other cars.
Title: Re: Solved: GTE 321 - 1906 Morgan 24 HP Limousine
Post by: ftg3plus4 on March 25, 2020, 08:03:50 AM
Good to see more pictures of this make. As it happens, I referenced it in my very first group puzzle almost 11 years ago (https://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/2009-37/solved-ntm-13-namesakes/ (https://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/2009-37/solved-ntm-13-namesakes/)), but I could only find a really small, really bad picture of it (#B4 in the puzzle).