Author Topic: Solved NIC#295 - Buckingham cyclecar (Read 1057 times)

nicanary · « **on:** September 14, 2014, 11:51:00 AM »

What marque is this?

nicanary · « **Reply #1 on:** October 11, 2014, 06:08:44 AM »

Experts?

exekiel · « **Reply #2 on:** October 16, 2014, 08:17:56 AM »

British?

nicanary · « **Reply #3 on:** October 16, 2014, 08:21:03 AM »

Quote from: exekiel on October 16, 2014, 08:17:56 AM

British?

Yes.

D-type · « **Reply #4 on:** October 16, 2014, 10:55:16 AM »

MG "Old no 1"

nicanary · « **Reply #5 on:** October 16, 2014, 11:17:11 AM »

Quote from: D-type on October 16, 2014, 10:55:16 AM

MG "Old no 1"

It looks remarkably like that car, but I'm afraid it isn't the correct answer. The artist's impression is typically grandiose.

shamrock · « **Reply #6 on:** October 17, 2014, 05:22:43 PM »

nicanary · « **Reply #7 on:** October 17, 2014, 07:16:24 PM »

Quote from: shamrock on October 17, 2014, 05:22:43 PM

ac

Not AC, alternating current or air-conditioning.

richard cuyler · « **Reply #8 on:** October 23, 2014, 12:59:29 PM »

Is it a Morris Bullnose in racing guise?

nicanary · « **Reply #9 on:** October 23, 2014, 06:47:55 PM »

Quote from: richard cuyler on October 23, 2014, 12:59:29 PM

Is it a Morris Bullnose in racing guise?

No. It is an altogether different marque.

D-type · « **Reply #10 on:** October 23, 2014, 07:16:53 PM »

Could it be an AC?

nicanary · « **Reply #11 on:** October 24, 2014, 05:54:53 AM »

Quote from: D-type on October 23, 2014, 07:16:53 PM

Could it be an AC?

No. Shamrock had already tried that in lower-case letters.

D-type · « **Reply #12 on:** October 24, 2014, 11:57:32 AM »

Quote from: nicanary on October 24, 2014, 05:54:53 AM

Quote from: D-type on October 23, 2014, 07:16:53 PM
Could it be an AC?

No. Shamrock had already tried that in lower-case letters.

Whoops! sorry, missed that.

D-type · « **Reply #13 on:** October 24, 2014, 01:56:51 PM »

Let's try again - a Hillman Speed Model?

nicanary · « **Reply #14 on:** October 24, 2014, 06:54:45 PM »

Quote from: D-type on October 24, 2014, 01:56:51 PM

Let's try again - a Hillman Speed Model?

Not a Hillman. Not as big.

(I can never decide whether to start giving clues or not - I know the editors leave it up to the puzzle setter. I think I will say this much - at the time this car was built the Morris and AC would have been considered "light cars", and this car is a class below that. The puzzle picture appears to be from advertising matter, and the artist has made it look bigger than it really was, rather like the comically exaggerated ads from the 1950s, with families of 6 midgets supposedly crammed into a Ford Popular.)

D-type · « **Reply #15 on:** October 25, 2014, 04:51:49 PM »

Surely they weren't trying to show a GN cyclecar?

nicanary · « **Reply #16 on:** October 25, 2014, 06:54:33 PM »

Quote from: D-type on October 25, 2014, 04:51:49 PM

Surely they weren't trying to show a GN cyclecar?

Not a GN, but it is a cyclecar. Not a well-known marque.

nicanary · « **Reply #17 on:** November 16, 2014, 12:00:04 PM »

Pros?

4popoid · « **Reply #18 on:** November 16, 2014, 01:59:35 PM »

It's a Buckingham racer built by Buckingham Engine Works, in Coventry, from about 1914. The only image of this car I could find is this characture of engineer/designer/driver James Buckingham.

nicanary · « **Reply #19 on:** November 16, 2014, 02:29:13 PM »

Yes. A Buckingham cyclecar built post-WW1 which was extensively used for sprints and hillclimbs as a means of advertising. "Mr. Buckingham" was the inventor of the incendiary bullet. I think this model was introduced in 1920.

This image shows how small the car really was compared to the artists work.

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