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Solved TGF-428: Daimler 20/30 hearse, 1931.
« on: October 23, 2014, 05:11:11 AM »
Can you tell me what is this car?  I don't know the coachbuilder's name, so make and model are enough to get a point.
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Re: TGF-428
« Reply #1 on: October 23, 2014, 06:11:09 AM »
Hearse on Rolls-Royce Twenty?

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Re: TGF-428
« Reply #2 on: October 23, 2014, 07:25:04 AM »
Hearse, but not on RR.

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Re: TGF-428
« Reply #3 on: October 23, 2014, 10:46:00 AM »
If not RR is it an Austin 20 ?
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Re: TGF-428
« Reply #4 on: October 23, 2014, 03:43:30 PM »
Not Austin 20.

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Re: TGF-428
« Reply #5 on: October 24, 2014, 01:57:59 PM »
Daimler?
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Re: TGF-428
« Reply #6 on: October 24, 2014, 03:18:57 PM »
Given the full-on view of a coachbuilder's backside, and precious little else, is there anything actually on this image  which would identify the underpinnings as, say, uniquely Armstrong-Twiddleyesque as opposed to pure Humbug?

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Re: TGF-428
« Reply #7 on: October 24, 2014, 05:18:14 PM »
Daimler?
Yes, it's a Daimler. Locked for you to add model and year.

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Re: TGF-428
« Reply #8 on: October 24, 2014, 06:32:19 PM »
1933 Fifteen?
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Re: TGF-428
« Reply #9 on: October 25, 2014, 01:29:08 PM »
Not a fifteen.

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Re: TGF-428
« Reply #10 on: October 25, 2014, 04:46:22 PM »
I'll just have to run through the models, starting with the 30/40

Is 1933 correct?

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Re: TGF-428
« Reply #11 on: October 27, 2014, 05:31:06 AM »
Not a 30/40 and a bit older.

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Re: TGF-428
« Reply #12 on: October 29, 2014, 06:26:08 AM »
Please unlock this. 
As I don't know my Daimlers, all I can do is run through the list of models from Wikipedia.  If you unlock it, it will give those who know more than me a chance.
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Re: TGF-428
« Reply #13 on: October 29, 2014, 07:31:07 PM »
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Re: TGF-428
« Reply #14 on: October 29, 2014, 07:56:28 PM »
A 25, say from 1930?

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Re: TGF-428
« Reply #15 on: October 30, 2014, 04:48:03 AM »
Not a 25; the year I have is 1931 but '30 could be correct as well.

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Re: TGF-428
« Reply #16 on: November 04, 2014, 09:25:33 AM »
Not a 15, 20, or 25.  Is it a 35?
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Re: TGF-428
« Reply #17 on: November 04, 2014, 09:29:36 AM »
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Not a 15, 20, or 25.  Is it a 35?
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Re: TGF-428
« Reply #18 on: November 04, 2014, 12:14:44 PM »
20/30

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Re: TGF-428
« Reply #19 on: November 04, 2014, 01:38:58 PM »
That's it...a hearse built on a 20/30 Daimler chassis from 1931. Tomorrow I will post the picture of the side.