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Re: Wendax 757
« Reply #25 on: January 08, 2013, 07:29:27 AM »
Is it something that's more mundane? Rover?
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Re: Wendax 757
« Reply #26 on: January 08, 2013, 07:42:44 AM »
No, not a Rover

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Re: Wendax 757
« Reply #27 on: January 08, 2013, 09:39:20 AM »
Lea-Francis ?
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Re: Wendax 757
« Reply #28 on: January 08, 2013, 10:04:52 AM »
HRG?
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Re: Wendax 757
« Reply #29 on: January 08, 2013, 10:15:00 AM »
No to both

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Re: Wendax 757
« Reply #30 on: January 08, 2013, 10:20:34 AM »
The chassis and wheels look 20s, but the body style looks 30s. Is it a re-bodied Morris Oxford?
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Re: Wendax 757
« Reply #31 on: January 08, 2013, 10:25:06 AM »
I think that it is a rebodied 1920s car, but it isn't a Morris.

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Re: Wendax 757
« Reply #32 on: January 08, 2013, 12:28:16 PM »
Hillman?
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Re: Wendax 757
« Reply #33 on: January 08, 2013, 12:49:10 PM »
No

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Re: Wendax 757
« Reply #34 on: January 08, 2013, 01:19:00 PM »
Perhaps this is a rebodied Bond (F.W. Bond of Brighouse, Yorks) c.1927?

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Re: Wendax 757
« Reply #35 on: January 08, 2013, 01:24:12 PM »
No, the marque is less obscure

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Re: Wendax 757
« Reply #36 on: January 08, 2013, 01:44:58 PM »
Star?

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Re: Wendax 757
« Reply #37 on: January 08, 2013, 01:46:14 PM »
No

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Re: Wendax 757
« Reply #38 on: January 08, 2013, 02:06:16 PM »
Armstrong Siddeley?
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Re: Wendax 757
« Reply #39 on: January 08, 2013, 02:07:47 PM »
An early Lagonda?

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Re: Wendax 757
« Reply #40 on: January 08, 2013, 02:09:49 PM »
No to both, and less upmarket

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Re: Wendax 757
« Reply #41 on: January 08, 2013, 02:15:31 PM »
Vauxhall?

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Re: Wendax 757
« Reply #42 on: January 08, 2013, 02:15:55 PM »
No

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Re: Wendax 757
« Reply #43 on: January 08, 2013, 02:28:57 PM »
Could it be a Jowett?

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Re: Wendax 757
« Reply #44 on: January 08, 2013, 02:30:23 PM »
Wolseley?

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Re: Wendax 757
« Reply #45 on: January 08, 2013, 02:54:48 PM »
Could it be a Jowett?
Yes, locked for you to find the model.

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Re: Wendax 757
« Reply #46 on: January 08, 2013, 03:02:32 PM »
7/17?

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Re: Wendax 757
« Reply #47 on: January 08, 2013, 05:07:45 PM »
Yes, it's a 1926 Jowett 7/17. It was rebodied in the 1930s or 1940s. I have a coachbuilder's name. Locked for you to find it out.

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Re: Wendax 757
« Reply #48 on: January 09, 2013, 04:48:14 PM »
I found a source that tells us that the body is made by E. D. Abbott of Farnham. What is a bit confusing is that they refer to Abbott as a well-known Scottish coachbuilder...

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Re: Wendax 757
« Reply #49 on: January 10, 2013, 01:11:17 AM »
Yes, that is the same information I have. I'm not sure myself how trustworthy this is.
Anyway, the point is yours.
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