This car was exhibited at the London Motor Show in 1952.
Can anybody say what it is? The clock starts now!
https://revslib.stan...tem/jk534bk4164
RGDS RLT
Posted 21 January 2015 - 12:39
This car was exhibited at the London Motor Show in 1952.
Can anybody say what it is? The clock starts now!
https://revslib.stan...tem/jk534bk4164
RGDS RLT
Posted 21 January 2015 - 19:14
Here's another one of many obscurities to be found on the magnificent Revs Digital Archive website:
https://revslib.stan...tem/bt036sq1796
June 29, 1958 - Brown Patch
Any ideas?
DCN
Edited by Doug Nye, 21 January 2015 - 19:15.
Posted 21 January 2015 - 19:33
No - but I love it!
Posted 21 January 2015 - 20:29
These photos on Revs have a magnificent zoom facility to enlarge them with no apparent loss of quality. Zoom in on this baby and the driver's appeal to the pits as steam gushes from the hatch ahead of him is just a perfect study in motor racing despair...
DCN
Posted 21 January 2015 - 20:48
Posted 21 January 2015 - 21:34
These photos on Revs have a magnificent zoom facility to enlarge them with no apparent loss of quality. Zoom in on this baby and the driver's appeal to the pits as steam gushes from the hatch ahead of him is just a perfect study in motor racing despair...
DCN
Does it say 'Ecurie Sandhurst' on the side, forward of the number? There's certainly an Austin badge there too - even though it's painted over - as well as the one on the radiator.
Posted 21 January 2015 - 21:43
Posted 21 January 2015 - 23:07
Correct. Definitely Henry Taylor.
DCN
Posted 22 January 2015 - 00:22
Originally posted by Vitesse2
Does it say 'Ecurie Sandhurst' on the side, forward of the number? There's certainly an Austin badge there too - even though it's painted over - as well as the one on the radiator.
Posted 22 January 2015 - 07:01
Here's another one of many obscurities to be found on the magnificent Revs Digital Archive website:
https://revslib.stan...tem/bt036sq1796
June 29, 1958 - Brown Patch
Any ideas?
DCN
Looks like he's at the back if you zoom in on this photo. Who were these guys?
https://revslib.stan...tem/vp883dj1810
Vince H.
Posted 22 January 2015 - 07:15
Posted 22 January 2015 - 09:21
Austin radiator and Seven front wheels might suggest it is a 750 MC competitor?
Posted 22 January 2015 - 09:59
Yes, I thought it would be a 750MC race, perhaps late fifties from the spectator cars? I wonder what records the 750MC have of their earlier events?
Posted 22 January 2015 - 10:22
Hello Derwent Motorsport,
I'm not sure the 750MC do have good records of their earlier events. I spoke to Giles Groombridge last year about - Holly Birkett 6 Hour Relay Results fromthe 50s to date, and he said they had none ! But give them a try anyway.
I think they have been 'lost' during various changes of personnel when nobody thought they were important.
I have Holly Birkett results from about 1978 onwards but wanted some earlier ones and to fill in a few gaps in the 1990s.
Oh, and Morgans are my poison
Andy
Posted 22 January 2015 - 11:40
It was one of the early 750MC/Trio race meetings. Unfortunately in the raft of programmes I inherited from the estate of one my researchees, whilst he competed in the above event, I only have the programme from the following year's event and his race diary only gives his own experiences. Depending on how far back you want to go for the 6 hours, Autosport and MNews reports had quite detailed finish results, ISTR, or you could work most of them out from the long narratives. I am sure many of the old 750MC members would have kept records, it's a generational thing...... Of course, because the 750 ethic was self built/prepared it is generally unlikely to see any entrant other than the driver on the programme. I have put " generally" as I know some were not entrant driven, or may have been in a team.
Roger Lund
Edit. It is at times like this that we need the recall of Eric Dunsden or dear old Bauble Bob, where is he now?
btw I am sure I can see a young tnfer Sterling49 in short trousers on South Bank in Vince's posting picture...........
Edited by bradbury west, 22 January 2015 - 11:43.
Posted 22 January 2015 - 15:27
Here's another one of many obscurities to be found on the magnificent Revs Digital Archive website:
https://revslib.stan...tem/bt036sq1796
June 29, 1958 - Brown Patch
Any ideas?
DCN
According to P47 of David Morgan's book on the 750 Motor Club, the car is an un-named special driven by the 1958 750 champion John Wilkes.
Steve
Posted 22 January 2015 - 16:43
Hmm - hardly on Champion form that day... I must seek a race programme.
DCN
Edited by Doug Nye, 22 January 2015 - 16:43.
Posted 22 January 2015 - 20:15
~ or dear old Bauble Bob, where is he now?
~
I think he was banned because people complained about some of his fictitious personal recollections which he put up for a joke
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Posted 22 January 2015 - 20:37
Posted 22 January 2015 - 20:56
I don't think he's banned - his name is still on the list of members here. I believe he just got fed up with the flak some of his posts generated. No doubt Eric can tell us more.
He sometimes posts in Another Place...
Posted 22 January 2015 - 23:59
Speaking of other places, do any fb denizens know what this super charger with wheels attached might be ?
Posted 23 January 2015 - 08:42
Linkie no workee
Posted 23 January 2015 - 09:09
Linkie no workee
Well, 'tis faecebook so probably better so.
Posted 23 January 2015 - 09:44
Probably posted in a closed group of which we aren't members! Or restricted by Ralph's own privacy settings.
Posted 23 January 2015 - 11:30
Linkie no workee
If it has got privacy issues it's on the Historic Racing Cars page
Posted 23 January 2015 - 12:35
As I suspected, it's a closed (members-only) group.
Posted 28 January 2015 - 16:16
Posted 28 January 2015 - 20:06
Posted 28 January 2015 - 20:14
Rob, Thanks. It doesn't look like a Fairthorpe.
#53 reg: XXB 731
Any more bids?
RGDS RLT
Posted 28 January 2015 - 20:46
According to RSC website C J Green drove a Fairthorpe (Electron Minor?) at the Scott-Brown Trophy.Rob, Thanks. It doesn't look like a Fairthorpe.
#53 reg: XXB 731
Any more bids?
RGDS RLT
Edited by Rob Ryder, 28 January 2015 - 21:47.
Posted 28 January 2015 - 21:19
Looks like he's at the back if you zoom in on this photo. Who were these guys?
https://revslib.stan...tem/vp883dj1810
Vince H.
Posted 28 January 2015 - 21:57
According to RSC website C J Green drove a Fairthorpe (Electron Minor?) at the Scott-Brown Trophy.
Check this link.. https://www.flickr.c...rs/14459493950/
Not the same car to my eyes, certainly not an Electron Minor. RGDS RLT
Posted 28 January 2015 - 22:06
He sometimes posts in Another Place...
What? The House of Lords?
Posted 28 January 2015 - 22:25
RogerFrench, on 28 Jan 2015 - 22:19, said:I'm a bit late coming to this thread, otherwise I could have answered Mr. Nye's question immediately.
Nevertheless, I can add a bit. The car in front on this picture is my father's Simplicity Itself, and he's driving.
I was sure it was Roger but hoped that somebody else would stick their neck out first
Posted 29 January 2015 - 12:12
Hi Rupert,
I have never seen one of these cars in the flesh, but I am pretty sure it is a Nordec Excell.
Regards Tony Stanton, Compiler of the Rochdale Olympic History Archives.
Posted 29 January 2015 - 14:43
Tony, Brilliant!
That looks like the kit.
Where did the advertisement come from? Date?
Anything known about C J Green?
This has to be the most obscure special. BTW it is Nordic.
RGDS RLT
Posted 29 January 2015 - 16:04
Tony 1 - Rob 0
I am enjoying browsing Revs Library .. maybe we should use this thread for IDs and Questions raised by their photos?
How about this one... Alf Francis on the right, but who is on the left? I feel I should recognise him .
https://revslib.stan...log/sx832rs8400
Rob
Edited by Rob Ryder, 29 January 2015 - 16:04.
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Posted 29 January 2015 - 18:04
Tony, Brilliant!
That looks like the kit.
Where did the advertisement come from? Date?
Anything known about C J Green?
This has to be the most obscure special. BTW it is Nordic.
RGDS RLT
The advertisement is from one of the motoring magazines in 1960.
John Green was the general manager for Fairthorpe Sports Cars and in 1957 he designed the Electron Minor, the name by which Fairthorpe is mainly remembered.
He was one of the three original Fairthorpe `works` team drivers along with Peter Butt and Frank Collins.
John Green later went on to design and build the Daren Sportscars.
“Nordic” this is one of the problems with been dyslexic you do not always spot the mistakes, as the spelling mistake is in the advert. It is Nordec just Google “Nordec Excell”
Regards Tony Stanton, Compiler of the Rochdale Olympic History Archives.
Ps) As post above.
I am enjoying browsing Revs Library .. maybe we should use this thread for IDs and Questions raised by their photos?
Rob.
I think that’s a good idea. Tony.
Edited by DUFFY, 29 January 2015 - 18:28.
Posted 29 January 2015 - 18:28
Posted 29 January 2015 - 18:46
The advertisement is from one of the motoring magazines in 1960.
John Green was the general manager for Fairthorpe Sports Cars and in 1957 he designed the Electron Minor, the name by which Fairthorpe is mainly remembered.
He was one of the three original Fairthorpe `works` team drivers along with Peter Butt and Frank Collins.
John Green later went on to design and build the Daren Sportscars.
Tony, More brilliance!
It would appear there was an XXB 742, with Sprite motor and alloy body, which may have been the prototype?
http://convair-register.org/Excell.htm
RGDS
RLT
Posted 29 January 2015 - 19:05
Tony 1 - Rob 0
I am enjoying browsing Revs Library .. maybe we should use this thread for IDs and Questions raised by their photos?
How about this one... Alf Francis on the right, but who is on the left? I feel I should recognise him .
https://revslib.stan...log/sx832rs8400
Rob
Is it Tony Robinson?
Posted 29 January 2015 - 21:09
Yes Duncan, Thanks.
I knew I should have recognised him. Maybe it was the lack of overalls caused the brain-fade
Edited by Rob Ryder, 29 January 2015 - 21:09.
Posted 05 February 2015 - 00:58
Here is another car that is bugging me?
Appears to have no bonnet that opens?
Possibly an opening for a starting handle?
From 1953:
https://revslib.stan...tem/kv378vm0618
RGDS RLT
Posted 05 February 2015 - 02:17
That windscreen would have cost a few bob. Useless but expensive.
It is a lovely photo. Thanks.
Posted 05 February 2015 - 02:57
G. R. G. Stevens (G.R.J. Special) on Waterworks Hill.
Posted 05 February 2015 - 19:48
It looks a bit familiar, something says Paramount to me?
Posted 05 February 2015 - 21:48
It looks a bit familiar, something says Paramount to me?
Not a Paramount imho, not curvy enough.
Posted 05 February 2015 - 22:21
I understand that the GRJ Special may have been named after the initials of the three companies that had parts in it:
Gilbern
Reliant
Jowett