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SOLVED: WTH # 281 - 1923 Delage GL Saloon by Barker
« on: October 24, 2013, 11:16:00 PM »
For one point, provide the year, make, model, and coachbuilder of this stylish sedan

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Re: WTH # 281
« Reply #1 on: November 05, 2013, 09:01:00 PM »
Is this car so anonymous, the Experts are going to ignore it?

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Re: WTH # 281
« Reply #2 on: November 08, 2013, 11:35:33 PM »
Up!

Time for the Professionals to earn a point

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Re: WTH # 281
« Reply #3 on: November 09, 2013, 03:57:26 AM »
I suppose it is an Imperia 15.9 hp from 1914-5. It looks like a British coachbuilder's job.

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Re: WTH # 281
« Reply #4 on: November 09, 2013, 08:24:28 AM »
Not an Imperia, slightly newer.  The coachbuilder was British.

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Re: WTH # 281
« Reply #5 on: November 09, 2013, 08:36:03 AM »
Hamshaw, 1924?

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Re: WTH # 281
« Reply #6 on: November 09, 2013, 08:38:16 AM »
The car was built in 1923, not by Hamshaw

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Re: WTH # 281
« Reply #7 on: November 09, 2013, 08:58:47 AM »
I suppose it is an Imperia 15.9 hp from 1914-5. It looks like a British coachbuilder's job.
I gave you an answer I had in my mind for another quiz :-[, of course the car isn't from 1914...
Is it an Armstrong-Siddeley?

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Re: WTH # 281
« Reply #8 on: November 09, 2013, 09:07:36 AM »
I found the same background in at least a dozen of different pics of different coachbuilders...it has to be a quite known location!
But it won't help, I know...

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Re: WTH # 281
« Reply #9 on: November 09, 2013, 09:11:29 AM »
Not an Armstrong-Siddeley

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Re: WTH # 281
« Reply #10 on: November 09, 2013, 09:27:10 AM »
It“s a 1924 Delage DI Saloon by Barker.

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Re: WTH # 281
« Reply #11 on: November 09, 2013, 09:31:02 AM »
Aaargh! I look into Georgano's Coachbuilders and in Walker's A-Z book...and it was on Georgano's new Encyclopedia, pag.187 !

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Re: WTH # 281
« Reply #12 on: November 09, 2013, 12:15:16 PM »
I have awarded a point to Joćo, as he provided the correct make and coachbuilder.  It is a 1923 Delage GL Saloon by Barker.

Paul Jaray is absolutely correct, as to the source of the image.  I was browsing through the book and noticed, this auto was not pictured anywhere on the webs.

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Re: SOLVED: WTH # 281 - 1923 Delage GL Saloon by Barker
« Reply #13 on: November 09, 2013, 07:31:36 PM »
Thank you!  ;)

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Re: SOLVED: WTH # 281 - 1923 Delage GL Saloon by Barker
« Reply #14 on: November 10, 2013, 05:23:55 PM »
It's unbelievable how, after you know the correct answer, you can find a lot of clues in the picture that make you thinking: "How could I miss to see it!"...in this case I think that the radiator design should have got Delage up to my mind.