Topic: SOLVED - Whaddyacallit #27 - 1934 Southern Cross Saloon

[Ray B.]

Ever seen this ?

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[grobmotorix]

Iīve filed it as the Southern Cross Saloon, but donīt have any more information despite those:

A car made in the 30's with a flat six motor.
It had four doors, each with a slope on the window channel, toward the
centre of the car, which made it uncomfortable to hang your arm out.

[Paul Jaray]

D'oh!
I saw this very pic yesterday and I tought...good for a puzzle..but then no It's too easy with that name and those windows...and now I can't remember where it was!

[Ray B.]

Grobmotorix is right, although I have no more informations about the car than he does.
All I know is the country, Australia, and the year,1934, and this is internet information and would have to be checked. There was a Triumph model called Southern cross from 1932 to 1937, but it doesn't look much like the car above, and I couldn't find no pictures of it with a saloon body style.

[Allan L]

The following appeared in Georgano over the initials of Keith Marvin

SOUTHERN CROSS (AUS) 1933-1935
Marks Motor Construction Ltd, Sydney, N.S.W
First Southern Cross cars had a laminated timber frame and spring anchorages were interleaved with the wood. They used a 65bhp horizontally-opposed 4-cylinder sv engine with aluminium cylinder heads, the design having been attributed to Sir Charles Kingsford-Srnith. Conventional frarnes were used by 1934, when a sedan with McGill torque converter transmission was offered for Ģ295. Subsequent cars may have been equipped with engines made in the United States.

[Ray B.]

Thanks ! I love it when our little games teaches us some stuff too.
And, as you say, it sometimes help to be british.