Topic: GC036 1924 Cottin & Desgouttes Type 16 M3S with a British Weymann body

[gilescooperuk]

Name and any additional info you have please.

[roger]

Looks like an Essex, don't know anything about them though

[gilescooperuk]

Not an Essex

[gilescooperuk]

time to apply some expert knowledge

[Tackitt]

Minerva?

[gilescooperuk]

no not minerva

[gilescooperuk]

to the pros - and it is google image proof....

[Allan L]

Well I've spent too much time on this one!
To me that's obviously a Lanchester but the radiator top tank seems too shallow for an early 1920s 40 or 21 which would go with the BE tyres. Wire wheels and front brakes on a 21 would be late 1920s by which time WB wheel rims and wired-on tyres would be the thing.
The body and in particular the windscreen are unfamiliar.

Here's a later (1930) example I posted some 3½ years ago

[gilescooperuk]

It isn't a Lanchester, although I have to agree the radiator looks very similar.

In fact the chassis isn't British.

[Ehhxekt]

I just stumbled on it by chance: 1924 Cottin & Desgouttes Type 16 M3S with a British Weymann body.

[gilescooperuk]

I'm surprised it got found that quickly. Especially when I supply the quote from the information form on the car.

French car with English body rescued from scrapyard in Leicestershire in 1950 by current owners father, was restored and used as everyday car for 24 years. Then on and off road, recent repaint and new tyres