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Solved: Allemano's № 617 - Microcar for the Hong Kong Governor (more infos welcome!)
« on: April 26, 2011, 03:29:57 AM »
This is a bit of a mystery....

Please respond below if you know what this is and for whom it was built
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Re: Allemano's № 617
« Reply #1 on: May 08, 2011, 05:25:08 AM »
moved.
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Re: Allemano's № 617
« Reply #2 on: May 13, 2011, 06:05:12 AM »
Again.
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Re: Allemano's № 617
« Reply #3 on: May 13, 2011, 07:52:14 AM »
This car was speally built for the Hong Kong Governor.  "HK Governor (believed to be Sir Robert Brown - to be confirmed) bought this mini-car from my grandfather. He ordered it upon his retirement and took it back to England as a gift to his grand-daughter. He specially requested the car to be painted in red" wrote Alan Chung, owner of this picture
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Re: Allemano's № 617
« Reply #4 on: May 13, 2011, 07:59:42 AM »
Very well done! :applause:

One point for you!


I leave it open for a short time in order to get some more infos maybe..
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Re: Allemano's № 617
« Reply #5 on: May 16, 2011, 05:48:08 AM »
To the solved's it goes!
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Re: Solved: Allemano's № 617 - Microcar for the Hong Kong Governor (more infos welcome!)
« Reply #6 on: June 27, 2016, 01:11:58 PM »
Quote from: Allemano on May 13, 2011, 07:59:42 AM
Very well done! :applause:

One point for you!


I leave it open for a short time in order to get some more infos maybe..

Here you are: this car was built by Bowrington Motors (Happy Valley), it was called BM Junior and was powered by a 50cc Vespa engine. It was not a one-off. They were used also in the Junior Traffic Training exhibitions held by the Hong Kong Police & traffic departmen as shown below. There were different versions.

NB: Mr Alan Chung seems to be quite concerned about the use of his pictures:
 
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NOTE: These are my family privately owned photos that I disabled downloading from Flickr. Recently I discovered that many people copied some of my photos by other means & posted on Facebook & various web sites. My late family members are in some of these photos. Please show respect & do not violate copyright.

I am using these pictures with all the respect they deserve and I won't make any profit sharing them here with you. I like this little cars and I still think they should be known to a wider public.
I can remove them if the owner wants me to  ;)
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