Author Topic: New Year's Day 1: Lanchester 21 Landaulet by Maythorn of Biggleswade (Read 1506 times)

Allan L · « **on:** January 01, 2008, 10:22:45 AM »

A photo taken at our local New Year's Day gathering:
Make, model and coachbuilder for full marks!

Allan L · « **Reply #1 on:** January 11, 2008, 07:51:51 AM »

10 days with not one guess!
Come on you lot!

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #2 on:** January 12, 2008, 07:07:14 AM »

Going by the top of the radiator screen that's been blacked out, I suspect this is a Wolseley saloon of some sort, circa early 1930's.

Allan: I've posted this car and one of your rookie puzzles to the main page - perhaps a new or returning visitor to our site dropping buy can ID one or both.

Allan L · « **Reply #3 on:** January 12, 2008, 09:04:11 AM »

Quote from: KarnUtz on January 12, 2008, 07:07:14 AM

Going by the top of the radiator screen that's been blacked out, I suspect this is a Wolseley saloon of some sort, circa early 1930's.

Not a Wolseley.
Nothing has been blacked out - it's straight off the camera!

@re · « **Reply #4 on:** January 12, 2008, 10:47:42 AM »

That must be a Holy Radiator, then. Not bad.

Allan L · « **Reply #5 on:** January 12, 2008, 03:31:28 PM »

Quote from: @re on January 12, 2008, 10:47:42 AM

That must be a Holy Radiator, then. Not bad.

How else could you see the holy water?

Allan L · « **Reply #6 on:** January 24, 2008, 04:09:36 AM »

Come on, this is quite a famous make in the annals of English motor engineering.

Paul Jaray · « **Reply #7 on:** January 24, 2008, 04:28:05 AM »

Ok, that is a Lanchester...probably 18 HP.

Allan L · « **Reply #8 on:** January 24, 2008, 06:29:16 AM »

Quote from: PAUL JARAY on January 24, 2008, 04:28:05 AM

Ok, that is a Lanchester...probably 18 HP.

Lanchester, yes, but earlier than an 18 h.p.

Paul Jaray · « **Reply #9 on:** January 24, 2008, 06:32:58 AM »

A 21hp than?

Allan L · « **Reply #10 on:** January 24, 2008, 06:34:47 AM »

Quote from: PAUL JARAY on January 24, 2008, 06:32:58 AM

A 21hp than?

It is indeed.
Now the coachbuilder, which is perhaps rather more difficult.

Paul Jaray · « **Reply #11 on:** January 24, 2008, 06:57:22 AM »

Is that Caffyns?

Allan L · « **Reply #12 on:** January 24, 2008, 01:39:16 PM »

sorry, no

Paul Jaray · « **Reply #13 on:** January 24, 2008, 01:43:20 PM »

The fact is that this version has nothing peculiar, so it's hard to identify the coachbuilder, even looking for the landaulet version...

Allan L · « **Reply #14 on:** January 24, 2008, 03:34:01 PM »

Perhaps not, but there is a photo of it in the appropriate book with the coachbuilder's name recorded.
If that were on the Internet, you'd have the answer by now of course!

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #15 on:** January 27, 2008, 06:30:36 AM »

Lanchester 23 / Corsica?

Allan L · « **Reply #16 on:** January 27, 2008, 03:36:27 PM »

Quote from: KarnUtz on January 27, 2008, 06:30:36 AM

Lanchester 23 / Corsica?

Not Corsica, and Paul Jaray has already correctly identified it as a 21 h.p.

Paul Jaray · « **Reply #17 on:** January 27, 2008, 03:43:35 PM »

I must admit that it's hard to identify the coachbuilder with no-elements, it's also useless for me to post a list of all of the active ones in that period on that chassis (such as Young,Corsica and others...) so, is there something more you can tell us to help?

Paul Jaray · « **Reply #18 on:** February 01, 2008, 03:38:18 PM »

...Carlton....Martin and King.....

Allan L · « **Reply #19 on:** February 01, 2008, 04:27:39 PM »

This won't really help you unless you know the geography of English coachbuilding, but the photograph was taken in the village of Barrington, Cambridgeshire only about 12 miles from where the body was built!

Edited to say: well more like 15 miles now I look closer.

Paul Jaray · « **Reply #20 on:** February 01, 2008, 04:30:10 PM »

Allan L · « **Reply #21 on:** March 31, 2008, 07:33:39 AM »

Any of our newer members interested in things this old?

max · « **Reply #22 on:** March 31, 2008, 10:00:08 AM »

Marshalls, just on the other side of Cambridge, would be approx. 15 miles away

Allan L · « **Reply #23 on:** March 31, 2008, 10:43:25 AM »

Quote from: max on March 31, 2008, 10:00:08 AM

Marshalls, just on the other side of Cambridge, would be approx. 15 miles away

Yes it would, but not them.
Head due West, rather than North East

Paul Jaray · « **Reply #24 on:** March 31, 2008, 11:32:24 AM »

~~Arrington?~~
Beeston?

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Author Topic: New Year's Day 1: Lanchester 21 Landaulet by Maythorn of Biggleswade (Read 1506 times)