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Solved - NEH 4366: The Flatiron Special
« on: November 16, 2015, 08:03:11 AM »
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Re: NEH 4366
« Reply #1 on: December 01, 2015, 04:34:27 AM »
Experts?
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Re: NEH 4366
« Reply #2 on: December 01, 2015, 05:53:15 AM »
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Re: NEH 4366
« Reply #3 on: December 01, 2015, 06:10:49 AM »
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Re: NEH 4366
« Reply #4 on: December 03, 2015, 11:18:44 AM »
Thomas Special ?
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Re: NEH 4366
« Reply #5 on: December 03, 2015, 11:33:35 AM »
Quote from: Willie McCrum on December 03, 2015, 11:18:44 AM
Thomas Special ?

It is a Parry Thomas car, yes.
Locked for you to be specific about it.
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Re: NEH 4366
« Reply #6 on: December 05, 2015, 05:45:50 AM »
Known, I think, as the 'Flatiron', The Thomas Special was built - indeed I believe there were two - for the British GP at Brooklands in...1926 I think.
Engine was 1.5 litres supercharged straight eight, sohc with dry sump lubrication. Pretty advanced for the day.  I believe neither car started the race due to pre-event problems and further development was halted by Parry-Thomas' death at Pendine Sands in 1927.
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Re: NEH 4366
« Reply #7 on: December 05, 2015, 08:43:33 AM »
That's right, it's Parry Thomas's Flatiron Special.
Well done.
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Re: Solved - NEH 4366: The Flatiron Special
« Reply #8 on: December 05, 2015, 09:57:22 AM »
I know we all think of the Thomas Specials as the "flatiron" cars but I'm pretty sure JGPT himself would not have done so.
It has always seemed to me to be a journo's way of hyping the cars up.
By the way, one of them survives in good hands and I wouldn't be too surprised if it raced again.
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Re: Solved - NEH 4366: The Flatiron Special
« Reply #9 on: December 05, 2015, 02:46:06 PM »
OK, thanks.  So it's a sort of generic name for Parry Thomas's cars, invented long afterwards by journalists.
Hey ho...
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