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Solved: PN #526 -- Tweenie cyclecar
« on: August 11, 2013, 12:39:00 PM »
Please identify this car for a point
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Re: PN #526
« Reply #1 on: August 18, 2013, 08:09:19 AM »
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Re: PN #526
« Reply #2 on: August 18, 2013, 10:59:30 PM »
This is a Tweenie cyclecar, made by Alfred Dunhill, London. The engine is a vee-twin water cooled JAP. I think this car is the car that is in Australia.

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Re: PN #526
« Reply #3 on: August 18, 2013, 11:15:14 PM »
It was distributed by Dunhill as Tweenie was made in France, but otherwise a perfect answer:
"There was even a brief venture into car marketing, with Dunhill's taking on the agency for the French-built "Tweenie" cyclecar whose friction drive gave a remarkable seven forward speeds and offered "rapid acceleration, top-gear hillclimbing and handiness in traffic akin to the attributes of a high-powered motorcycle". "
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