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Puzzle #522 -Solved! Wallis Austin 7 Special
« on: October 10, 2007, 06:17:38 AM »


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Re: Puzzle #522
« Reply #1 on: October 13, 2007, 06:51:36 AM »
Daimler Double Six perhaps. 
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Re: Puzzle #522
« Reply #2 on: October 13, 2007, 07:16:54 AM »
Not a Daimler
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Re: Puzzle #522
« Reply #3 on: October 13, 2007, 07:57:36 AM »
Looks like an early  toon- Lotus 7- maybe british?
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Re: Puzzle #522
« Reply #4 on: October 14, 2007, 04:15:00 AM »
All that's missing are Cruella DeVille and some Dalmations...



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Re: Puzzle #522
« Reply #5 on: October 15, 2007, 04:32:37 AM »
This rings a distant bell.  Did this car have an aircraft engine?
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Re: Puzzle #522
« Reply #6 on: October 16, 2007, 06:30:44 AM »
I don't believe so...
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Re: Puzzle #522
« Reply #7 on: October 20, 2007, 05:34:50 AM »
According to my source, the engine is from an Austin 7, as well.
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Re: Puzzle #522
« Reply #8 on: October 23, 2007, 07:09:11 AM »
With that length of bonnet you could fit three A7 engines in tandem!

Was it made as a film prop?
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Re: Puzzle #522
« Reply #9 on: October 23, 2007, 09:22:56 AM »
No, I don't believe so.
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Re: Puzzle #522 -Solved! Wallis Austin 7 Special
« Reply #10 on: April 23, 2014, 10:11:34 AM »
Who got the point for solving this one?  Did they get another point for identifying Wing Commander Ken Wallis?  Did the successful answer to the puzzle, disappear into the ether?

(Oh look, a web link)
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Solved NIC#306 - 1938 Austin 7 Special of Ken Wallis (a.k.a. Walbro)
« Reply #11 on: September 29, 2014, 07:22:30 AM »
Please tell me the name of the car on the far right. and what powered it.
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Re: NIC #306
« Reply #12 on: September 29, 2014, 08:17:56 AM »
A special produced by Ken Wallis.  Powered by a straight eight made from two Austin Seven engines.
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Re: NIC #306
« Reply #13 on: September 29, 2014, 08:55:14 AM »
Quote from: D-type on September 29, 2014, 08:17:56 AM
A special produced by Ken Wallis.  Powered by a straight eight made from two Austin Seven engines.

Crikey, I expected it to last longer than this! That photo isn't available on the internet. I'm not sure whether it had 2 engines - it certainly had 2 chassis joined together. It was Wallis' 3rd Austin 7 Special, built in 1938. This photo shows it in the hands of Ken Cotterell, who ran it for several years post-war, and is on the startline at the 3rd and last meeting at Fersfield in 1951. It is named as an Austin in the race programme, but the text with the photo refers to it as a Walbro.

You've solved it D-type! One more point nearer the purgatory of the Pros.

(PS I've just discovered it's a repost - Otto #522 in 2007. Can someone merge them?)
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Re: Puzzle #522 -Solved! Wallis Austin 7 Special
« Reply #14 on: September 29, 2014, 10:22:13 AM »
Merged!
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Re: Puzzle #522 -Solved! Wallis Austin 7 Special
« Reply #15 on: September 30, 2014, 12:34:37 PM »
Definitely single-engined. I've just found these drawings made by Wallis.
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Re: Puzzle #522 -Solved! Wallis Austin 7 Special
« Reply #16 on: October 01, 2014, 04:41:31 AM »
So, it's powered by a single Austin Seven engine and not twin engined or special engined.  With that long a wheelbase the handling would have been, well, interesting.
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