Topic: Solved: Wendax 932 - Bradshaw Utility

[Wendax]

Beauty lies in the eye ...

For one point, please respond and identify this car.

[Voisin]

1948 Bradshaw utility

[Wendax]

Yes, it is a Bradshaw Utility prototype from 1948.

My first point for you is on the way, congratulations, Voisin.

[nicanary]

New one to me.  It was built by Lansing Bagnall, best known for their fork-lift trucks and baggage trucks. It was supposedly a 4-seat saloon, but power was a 5hp transverse vertical-twin driving the front wheels. The 3-speed 'box was mounted below the engine, so the whole shebang precedes the Mini.

I use the words "supposedly" and "but" advisedly - 5hp to carry 4 adults ?

[Carnut]

Are they sliding doors?

[Wendax]

Yes, sliding doors. The car survives at the Oily Rag Collection of The Automobile magazine.

[barrett]

Hopefully this will be back on the road by the end of the year... If anyone knows the fate of the other Lansing-Bagnall Bradshaw car (the 'Shay Sports') I'd be most interested

[nicanary]

This photo of the car was just posted up on Pistonheads' Classic car forum. I hope it's nearer restoration now.

[Carnut]

Here's a picture of the car in its heyday:

[Wendax]