Author Topic: 1922 Mercedes 1,5 litre Targa Florio, 1937 conversion by Newns  (Read 6887 times)

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Re: grob 2015.11.09 / Mercedes 28/95 Targa Florio conversion by ?
« Reply #25 on: January 01, 2016, 03:59:17 PM »
This is causing me nightmares. The exhaust arrangement suggests a 4-cylinder engine, but the 28/95 had 6 cylinders.

The Mercedes team for the 1922 Targa Florio comprised 7 cars - 2 X 28/95 models, 2 X new 1.5-litre supercharged cars, and 4 of the pre-WW1 1914 Grand Prix cars. These latter cars had 4 cylinders, and I know that Brooklands regular C G Brocklebank had one which was converted by L C Rawlance into a road-going car. HOWEVER - that was in 1923, and this car is bodied in a style which would have been around 1928-1932.

Sorry. Obviously I don't know the answer. These are just observations.



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Re: grob 2015.11.09 / Mercedes 1,5 litre Targa Florio conversion by ?
« Reply #26 on: January 01, 2016, 04:45:17 PM »
Ooooohh, sorry guys.

The car was a 1,5 liter Kompressor 1922 Targa Florio racer in its earlier life, and did NOT have the big 28/95HP engine...

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However I do not have the names Rawlance and Brocklebank...

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Re: grob 2015.11.09 / Mercedes 1,5 litre Targa Florio conversion by ?
« Reply #27 on: January 01, 2016, 04:53:35 PM »
Coachbuilt by Carlton ?

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Re: grob 2015.11.09 / Mercedes 1,5 litre Targa Florio conversion by ?
« Reply #28 on: January 01, 2016, 06:08:37 PM »
Abbott
Bertelli
Carlton
Corsica

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Re: grob 2015.11.09 / Mercedes 1,5 litre Targa Florio conversion by ?
« Reply #29 on: January 02, 2016, 03:09:52 AM »
Obscure coachbuilder ?

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Re: grob 2015.11.09 / Mercedes 1,5 litre Targa Florio conversion by ?
« Reply #30 on: January 02, 2016, 05:03:43 AM »
To help massively: they were located in Surrey
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Re: grob 2015.11.09 / Mercedes 1,5 litre Targa Florio conversion by ?
« Reply #31 on: January 02, 2016, 05:09:05 AM »
Hoyal?
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Re: grob 2015.11.09 / Mercedes 1,5 litre Targa Florio conversion by ?
« Reply #32 on: January 02, 2016, 05:10:36 AM »
Abbott
Bertelli
Carlton
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Hoyal

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Re: grob 2015.11.09 / Mercedes 1,5 litre Targa Florio conversion by ?
« Reply #33 on: January 02, 2016, 05:14:47 AM »
Compton & Hermon?
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Re: grob 2015.11.09 / Mercedes 1,5 litre Targa Florio conversion by ?
« Reply #34 on: January 02, 2016, 05:47:02 AM »
Abbott
Bertelli
Carlton
Compton & Hermon
Corsica
Hoyal

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Re: grob 2015.11.09 / Mercedes 1,5 litre Targa Florio conversion by ?
« Reply #35 on: January 02, 2016, 06:05:35 AM »
Newns?
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Re: grob 2015.11.09 / Mercedes 1,5 litre Targa Florio conversion by ?
« Reply #36 on: January 02, 2016, 06:24:46 AM »
BAM!

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Re: grob 2015.11.09 / Mercedes 1,5 litre Targa Florio conversion by ?
« Reply #37 on: January 02, 2016, 06:32:28 AM »
BAM!

I don't know why I didn't think of it before - they specialised in lightweight road bodies for cars like Railton and Lagonda.
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