Topic: barrett's #375 - Solved - Ford special by Gordon Hobson

[nicanary]

The puzzle car looks like it was built around 1950-55, so I'm assuming the builder was a young man at the time, and therefore went on to work for this mysterious company in the late 1950s/early 1960s. Is this correct?

[barrett]

Early '50s I think. The better-known cars were built in the mid '50s

[nicanary]

Was it Kieft?

Thanks for all the clues, I had been thinking along the wrong era. When I say Kieft, I don't mean Cyril, but rather did he work for Kieft, who became well-known around 1955 for making maybe the first one-piece GRP body in the UK.

[barrett]

Indeed, the company was Kieft!

I'll lock this for you to see if you can discover who was responsible for this car and those first GRP Kieft bodies

[nicanary]

A bit of a long shot - Merrick Taylor?

[nicanary]

Bumped - time to unlock this if I'm wrong. I'm fairly confident I am.

[barrett]

Not him, so unlocked.


His initials are G H

[nicanary]

For some reason I can't get the name of George Henrotte out of my head, although I can find no connection between him and Kieft. Is it him by any fluke?

[barrett]

Not him

[nicanary]

I do not own a history of Kieft, although I have read the good precis of the company's background which was once published in a well-known monthly magazine. This man's name was not mentioned.

At the risk of boring everyone to death, I could discover the name by a process of elimination. So...... is the first name Geoffrey?

[barrett]

I don't think he is 'known' at all, though he is mentioned in some detail in main Kieft source...

Not Geoffrey, anyway

[nicanary]

Graham?

[barrett]

Not Graham

[Quiller]

The builder was Gordon Hobson.

[nicanary]

 

[barrett]

Correct!

Well found