Puzzle #1117 - Solved! 1905 Rational Limousine

[Otto Puzzell]

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[Paul Jaray]

Hi, this is a Rational 10 HP Limousine by Sanders from 1905

[Paul Jaray]

are you sure?

[Allemano]

Hi, this is a Rational 10 HP Limousine by Sanders from 1905

are you sure?

schizophrenic?   

[Paul Jaray]

Which one of us?

[Otto Puzzell]

are you sure?

He should be!

[nicanary]

Year make and model required.

[nicanary]

Experts?

[fromwien]

Rational 10hp 1905, Ralph E. Sanders & Sons, Hitchin, Hertfortshire, UK

[nicanary]

Rational 10hp 1905, Ralph E. Sanders & Sons, Hitchin, Hertfortshire, UK

Correct in every detail.

[fromwien]

I thank you for the point, but I felt unsure, when I posted my answer to you.
It is a Rational 10 HP for sure, but most of the sources say 'Heatley-Gresham Engineering Co. Ltd.', Royston (Hertfordshire) is the manufacturer...
Is 'Ralph E. Sanders & Sons', Hitchin, Hertfortshire, UK, only the coachbuilder?

Two pictures attached

[nicanary]

I thank you for the point, but I felt unsure, when I posted my answer to you.
It is a Rational 10 HP for sure, but most of the sources say 'Heatley-Gresham Engineering Co. Ltd.', Royston (Hertfordshire) is the manufacturer...
Is 'Ralph E. Sanders & Sons', Hitchin, Hertfortshire, UK, only the coachbuilder?

Two pictures attached

This puzzle car is mentioned in the Beaulieu Encyclopedia as just one bodied by Sanders. Other coachbuilders were used. Heatley-Gresham were definitely the manufacturers.

[Allan L]

Yes Heatly Gresham of Royston, which in 1904 became the first industrial concern in Letchworth Garden City, made the Rational cars.
Ralph E Sanders & Sons of Hitchin was indeed a coachbuilder and built bodies for Rational Taxicabs as well as normal cars.

Small world comment: I knew a Robert Sanders  who was a member of that family at school and met James Gresham, grandson of the founder, when he gave a talk to the VCC on contemporary racing tyres.

[fromwien]

Thank you for additional informations, which exactly coincides with my assumptions

[gte4289]

Merged.