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Barrett's #154 - Solved - Buchanan Cobra
« on: May 12, 2011, 09:35:06 PM »
Make and model for a point please
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Re: Barrett's #154
« Reply #1 on: May 18, 2011, 07:00:23 PM »
Easy expert point

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Re: Barrett's #154
« Reply #2 on: May 19, 2011, 03:37:19 AM »
Anything to do with Ashley?
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Re: Barrett's #154
« Reply #3 on: May 19, 2011, 04:36:18 AM »
No Ashley connection

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Re: Barrett's #154
« Reply #4 on: May 19, 2011, 04:37:51 AM »
It's surely British though so how about Fairthorpe?
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Re: Barrett's #154
« Reply #5 on: May 19, 2011, 04:45:06 AM »
It does look like it could be a Fairthorpe, but I'm afraid this one isn't British at all!

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Re: Barrett's #154
« Reply #6 on: May 19, 2011, 04:57:10 AM »
Hmmm... RHD (and those wheels that were fitted to all the specials in the 1950s!) so maybe it's Australian?
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Re: Barrett's #154
« Reply #7 on: May 19, 2011, 12:13:26 PM »
Picking up Carnut's thinking - South African?
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Re: Barrett's #154
« Reply #8 on: May 20, 2011, 02:32:15 AM »
Australian?

Yep! It's not impossibly obscure either, a bit of digging online should find it....

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Re: Barrett's #154
« Reply #9 on: May 20, 2011, 03:41:50 AM »
Buckle?
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Re: Barrett's #154
« Reply #10 on: May 20, 2011, 03:09:27 PM »
Not a Buckle

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Re: Barrett's #154
« Reply #11 on: May 20, 2011, 03:22:55 PM »
Very early Buchanan Cobra?
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Re: Barrett's #154
« Reply #12 on: May 20, 2011, 05:31:08 PM »
That's the one!