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Solved NIC#323 - 1952 NHC Special (Buckler Mk5)
« on: November 07, 2014, 07:48:14 AM »
Please tell me what this car was called.

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Re: NIC #323
« Reply #1 on: December 07, 2014, 03:11:44 PM »
Experts?
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Re: NIC #323
« Reply #2 on: January 09, 2015, 07:22:51 AM »
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The licence plate is visible - if you can think where to look the answer will be easy.
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Re: NIC #323
« Reply #3 on: February 06, 2015, 07:15:17 AM »
Nobody wanted to react to my clue. It's too easy for the Pros.

It's a British licence plate. The marque has an online register which lists all the cars made.
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Re: NIC #323
« Reply #4 on: February 08, 2015, 04:41:24 PM »
Saw the clue...

Buckler cars

N.H.C.Special   MK 53   
Built Mar   1952   
cycle wing   E93A
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Re: NIC #323
« Reply #5 on: February 08, 2015, 04:54:33 PM »
Saw the clue...

Buckler cars

N.H.C.Special   MK 53   
Built Mar   1952   
cycle wing   E93A

I think I may have gone too far with helping out!  You've found the car - well done, and one point to you.

I was getting frustrated by the lack of questions. Questions get answers, and answers lead to clues, and clues lead to solutions.

It was called NHC after the builder Norman Hallet Coates. I think there may be an error on that certain site with the details - I don't think there was a Mk53. I think it should be a Mk.5.
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Re: NIC #323
« Reply #6 on: February 08, 2015, 04:56:08 PM »
Haven't been on here too much recently, due to working odd hours (well normal for me...) on remote sites

But that was a fairly easy clue to be honest.
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Re: NIC #323
« Reply #7 on: February 10, 2015, 10:50:08 AM »
I think there may be an error on that certain site with the details - I don't think there was a Mk53. I think it should be a Mk.5.

Maybe there was and maybe there wasn't but it's entirely feasible... There was after all a Mk 90!
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Re: NIC #323
« Reply #8 on: February 10, 2015, 10:58:22 AM »
I think there may be an error on that certain site with the details - I don't think there was a Mk53. I think it should be a Mk.5.

Maybe there was and maybe there wasn't but it's entirely feasible... There was after all a Mk 90!

Derek Buckler was a law unto himself. I wonder if we'll ever run out of Bucklers to use as puzzles - we must have used more of them so far than any other marque, relative to the numbers produced!
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