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bentleybob 14 solved: Gordon Watney Mercedes
« on: November 19, 2011, 07:13:18 AM »
year, make, type and by whom and why for two points please
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Re: bentleybob 14
« Reply #1 on: December 06, 2011, 10:58:54 AM »
up to the experts
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Re: bentleybob 14
« Reply #2 on: December 17, 2011, 09:41:27 AM »
Gotta ask the pro's..
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Re: bentleybob 14
« Reply #3 on: December 17, 2011, 09:43:23 AM »
First of all is it a Leyland Thomas?
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Re: bentleybob 14
« Reply #4 on: December 17, 2011, 09:46:23 AM »
No, it isn't
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Re: bentleybob 14
« Reply #5 on: December 17, 2011, 09:50:22 AM »
American body?
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Re: bentleybob 14
« Reply #6 on: December 17, 2011, 11:52:05 AM »
Mercedes by Gordon Watney?
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Re: bentleybob 14
« Reply #7 on: December 17, 2011, 02:52:37 PM »
Locked for you to complete the answer....
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Re: bentleybob 14
« Reply #8 on: December 18, 2011, 05:02:22 AM »
1908 Mercedes 120hp built/bodied by Gordon Watney to race at Brooklands?

I can't find any information about this particular car so I've made an educated(?) guess.

If I'm incorrect please unlock.
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Re: bentleybob 14
« Reply #9 on: December 18, 2011, 07:19:03 AM »
I am afraid it is not close enough to the mark, and some aspects are not correct, sorry, unlocked for a the point left for the story (because it is Mercedes by Gordon Watney)
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Re: bentleybob 14
« Reply #10 on: December 18, 2011, 07:28:27 AM »
I think it is one of the 45 hp or 65 hp Mercedes Gordon Watney reconstructed in 1920. It is probably the surviving 45 hp, based on a 1908 chassis.
« Last Edit: December 18, 2011, 07:32:19 AM by Wendax »
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Re: bentleybob 14
« Reply #11 on: December 18, 2011, 07:29:58 AM »
"135 HP Petersburg-Moscow De Dietrich, fitted with our special 4 seat. Sports body, painted aluminium, upholstered with detachable red leather, Auster screen, pair large Rushmore head lamps, generator, tail lamp, horn, latest Dunlop detachable rims, fitted Palmer cord tyres, disced wheels, engine fitted Bosch dual ignition and Zenith carburetter, and 4 external exhaust pipes, cased in flexible brass tubing, and leading to long expansion box, fastest and most efficient high speed touring car in Europe, extraordinary flexible, and easy to drive in traffic, in absolutely perfect condition, equal to new; price GBP 800,-- Gordon Watney and Co., Ltd. South Lodge Motor Factory, Weybridge. Tel. 363 . Weybridge."

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Re: bentleybob 14
« Reply #12 on: December 18, 2011, 07:33:55 AM »
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Re: bentleybob 14
« Reply #13 on: December 18, 2011, 07:37:33 AM »
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Re: bentleybob 14
« Reply #14 on: December 18, 2011, 08:22:44 AM »
I think Wendax nailed it here. The story here is that cars were scarce and expensive in 1919 and 1920, just after the Great War. A number of chain driven Mercedes and Benz cars were available in the UK and a number had been 'confiscated' in France, all of them with either rough or unsuitable (for the market) bodies. The rest is in the advertisement. The number of cars was quite considerable, as I understand it. So point for Wendax and point for neilshouse.
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