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Solved - MJW #589 - Swan 1923
« on: September 02, 2011, 05:09:32 AM »
Stepping back in time, can you name the make and year of this sports machine?

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Re: MJW #589
« Reply #1 on: September 08, 2011, 12:03:48 PM »
Moving up a gear

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Re: MJW #589
« Reply #2 on: September 21, 2011, 03:48:17 AM »
Up into top gear

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Re: MJW #589
« Reply #3 on: November 18, 2011, 02:35:09 AM »
No guesses since it was posted at the beginning of September - perhaps time for a clue then?
This car has a British name but is not British......

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Re: MJW #589
« Reply #4 on: November 18, 2011, 02:39:42 AM »
I think I have this very pic somewhere...from Germany?

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Re: MJW #589
« Reply #5 on: November 18, 2011, 02:41:01 AM »
Now I remember where I saw it...I'll have to wait to see it again!

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Re: MJW #589
« Reply #6 on: November 18, 2011, 03:17:07 AM »
Not German but it is European.....

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Re: MJW #589
« Reply #7 on: November 18, 2011, 03:26:03 AM »
Could it be Poland?

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Re: MJW #589
« Reply #8 on: November 18, 2011, 03:31:20 AM »
Czech?

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Re: MJW #589
« Reply #9 on: November 18, 2011, 03:33:29 AM »
Not Polish or Czech and not from Eastern Europe....

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Re: MJW #589
« Reply #10 on: November 18, 2011, 03:37:20 AM »
From the Netherlands?

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Re: MJW #589
« Reply #11 on: November 18, 2011, 03:40:42 AM »
Spain?

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Re: MJW #589
« Reply #12 on: November 18, 2011, 05:05:04 AM »
Neither the Netherlands or Spain....

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Re: MJW #589
« Reply #13 on: November 18, 2011, 05:05:24 AM »
This car has a British name but is not British......
Such as Derby, Fox, Hotchkiss, Marlborough or Talbot, but I don't think it's any of those. ;D
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Re: MJW #589
« Reply #14 on: November 18, 2011, 05:16:36 AM »
French?

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Re: MJW #589
« Reply #15 on: November 18, 2011, 05:22:32 AM »
French it is

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Re: MJW #589
« Reply #16 on: November 18, 2011, 09:18:44 AM »
Jack Enders?

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Re: MJW #589
« Reply #17 on: November 18, 2011, 09:21:19 AM »
This car has a British name but is not British......
Such as Derby, Fox, Hotchkiss, Marlborough or Talbot, but I don't think it's any of those. ;D
Not one of those

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Re: MJW #589
« Reply #18 on: November 18, 2011, 09:22:35 AM »
Jack Enders?
Not that.
It's a simple four letter word.

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Re: MJW #589
« Reply #19 on: November 18, 2011, 09:30:56 AM »
Swan from 1923?

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Re: MJW #589
« Reply #20 on: November 18, 2011, 09:36:21 AM »
Swan from 1923?
Yes it is!
Why they didn't call it Le Cygne is a mystery....