Topic: AL83 - 1926 Lea-Francis Kirkstone tourer

[Allan L]

This may look like a repost, but it isn't.
Make and model will gain you a point

[Allan L]

Time for the Experts, as the Rookies seem not to have even one guess between them!

[targhediferro]

It's not a long time since I posted a quiz about a Vulcan Twelve....so I had the chance to learn something about that car, in particular that Vulcan and Lea-Francis jointed to build a car in middle twenties.
So, I think the quiz car is a Lea-Francis-Vulcan 1LFS (tourer model is perhaps named Kirkstone), 1926-7 with a Anzani engine or a Meadows one.

[Allan L]

It's not a long time since I posted a quiz about a Vulcan Twelve....so I had the chance to learn something about that car, in particular that Vulcan and Lea-Francis jointed to build a car in middle twenties.
So, I think the quiz car is a Lea-Francis-Vulcan 1LFS (tourer model is perhaps named Kirkstone), 1926-7 with a Anzani engine or a Meadows one.

Yes it was your Vulcan that reminded me that we could have its Lea-Francis clone as another puzzle!
As you say it is the Lea-Francis Kirkstone with an Anzani engine and it was made at the Vulcan works. As you also say, some had Meadows engines but not this one - I think it would look the same anyway.
The 1LFS was a later Vulcan-built Lea-Francis which will appear here sometime (if it hasn't done so already!).
An easy point for you as you had already done the work, but quite obscure really.

[nicanary]

Verdammt! Twas I who solved the Vulcan, and I'd been waiting for this to be "upped", but was out on an errand. Some you win, some you lose.

[Allan L]

Verdammt! Twas I who solved the Vulcan, and I'd been waiting for this to be "upped", but was out on an errand. Some you win, some you lose.

Yes that happens a lot, it sometimes seems - and there are a few of us well-rooted in the first half of motoring history who don't get much of a chance amongst all the bland far Eastern tinware on offer.

[nicanary]

Verdammt! Twas I who solved the Vulcan, and I'd been waiting for this to be "upped", but was out on an errand. Some you win, some you lose.

Yes that happens a lot, it sometimes seems - and there are a few of us well-rooted in the first half of motoring history who don't get much of a chance amongst all the bland far Eastern tinware on offer.

Agreed. Trying to solve those means wading through a depressing amount of "grey porridge". I assume that the Chinese motor industry will eventually go the way of the West - survival of the fittest. Until then , I simply can't (and lack the resolve to) keep up.