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Solved - NEH 3847: Rochdale-bodied TVR at TVR factory or Rochdale Motor Panels
« on: December 24, 2014, 07:23:21 AM »
What's this, based on what and pictured where - for 1 point?:

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Re: NEH 3847
« Reply #1 on: January 07, 2015, 05:41:47 AM »
Experts?
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Re: NEH 3847
« Reply #2 on: January 07, 2015, 01:35:36 PM »
Aston Martin?
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Re: NEH 3847
« Reply #3 on: January 07, 2015, 05:17:52 PM »
When I first saw it, I thought "Connaught ASLR" . . . but the front end doesn't look quite right. I'm still looking . . .
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Re: NEH 3847
« Reply #4 on: January 07, 2015, 06:23:10 PM »
Neither Aston Martin nor Connaught..
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Re: NEH 3847
« Reply #5 on: January 16, 2015, 12:54:17 PM »
Could it be a modified Talbot Lago T26?
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Re: NEH 3847
« Reply #6 on: January 16, 2015, 05:01:33 PM »
I think that this is a TVR Type C, with a body by Rochdale which was made from molds taken from a damaged Connaught ASLR brought in to Rochdale Motor Panels for repairs (I just KNEW that it looked like a Connaught!). This would have been about 1955. The photo was likely taken at TVR in Blackpool. I don't know if they made any others, although it would seem like an awful lot of work taking molds off of the Connaught just to do one car?
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Re: NEH 3847
« Reply #7 on: January 17, 2015, 11:32:36 AM »
Indeed that's what it is; the picture is taken at the TVR factory in Beverley Grove, Blackpool.
I guess there were a few Rochdales with this body but I believe this is the only one fitted to a TVR chassis.
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Re: Solved - NEH 3847: Rochdale-bodied TVR at Beverley Grove, Blackpool TVR factory.
« Reply #8 on: January 17, 2015, 07:00:28 PM »
The front grille came from a Bond Minicar.

A car with one of these Rochdale bodies was regularly featured on the front cover of Brands Hatch programmes around 1957 - I'll have to try and find out exactly what it was.

Here it is - actually it would have made a good puzzle. It's the car of John Horridge, and is in fact a Lister-Bristol registered DEN275, with a Rochdale type C body. Nota Bene the typical Bristol twin exhausts.

Sorry- that image won't upload - here's a different one.
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Re: Solved - NEH 3847: Rochdale-bodied TVR at Beverley Grove, Blackpool TVR factory.
« Reply #9 on: November 25, 2023, 07:27:54 AM »
The chassis is a Lister and the photo was taken at Rochdale Motor Panels, Hudson Street, Rochdale, Lancs. 
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