Solved - NEH 4575: Simca Swallow - 1956

[Carnut]

Is this the Geoff Bernhagen Simca Swallow?

Indeed it is!
All I need now is the date of build and who else was involved in building it with Bernhagen?
Locked for nicanary of course!

[nicanary]

It was the Brewer brothers of Austral Motors. Unfortunately the only reference to the car that I can find mentions very vaguely "the '50s" which is pretty obvious, I would have thought. Sorry I can't be more specific.

[Carnut]

All right, we'll call it solved I think.
It was built by Geoff Bernhagen and the Brewer brothers in Queensland in 1956, using a KM200 body/chassis with Simca Aronde engine, gearbox and suspension.
Got there in the end!

[nicanary]

Thanks for the point. I could find only one reference to this car on the whole of the 'net. This was a page concerning the original Nota which was being sold by a well-known Australian auction house, and one of the comments appended mentioned this car. It was a pure guess on my part, but an educated one, because the Neuens car I posted earlier in this thread was also Simca-engined, and the puzzle car had what looked like production car wheels.

I don't know how you find these puzzles!

PS whilst investigating this puzzle, I noticed that the Australian Simca owners' club is called Simca Swallow, and this seems to be what they call the Vedette model.