Topic: Solved - Monty003: 1923 Rugby

[el_monty]

I continue with pics I've taken myself. I have no idea if this car is considered rare or not, but according to the search results it hasn't been on AP before, so there it goes. What's this, from when? (I only know the marque and year)

[el_monty]

Up to the Experts

[luisps]

RUGBY?

[el_monty]

Yes, it is indeed a Rugby. Locked for you to give me the year. The fact that you're Spanish like me makes me think perhaps you have also come across this particular car...

[luisps]

Yes, I know that car and I've my own pictures of it from some antique cars rally, as the one of Sitges 2011. Anyway that car was the export version of the STAR made in USA by Durant Motors, that, when decided to sale their cars in Europe become aware that the same name was used before WWI by a British company, so decided to change the brand nome to RUGBY. These cars were produced from 1924 to 1931 and the unit of the picture seems to be a torpedo 6 cylinders of 1926. Curiosly some of these cars were still in use in Barcelona in the decade of 1950 as training cars in a well known drivers school of Barcelona...

[el_monty]

The info you provide about the marque is almost entirely correct luisps but I'm afraid that 1926 is not the year of production of this car, according to its owner. You have one more chance to get it right. It can be found online if you dig a bit.

[luisps]

If this car has the license number GE-1154 as the one that I 've seen them is from 1924.

[el_monty]

luisps, you get the point. The owner, one Mr. Jaume Muntaner always lists the car in callyes and meetups as a 1923, but I am aware that a spanish website about license plates assigns this plate number to January 1924. It would make sense I guess for the car to have been built in late 1923 (the year that the Rugby marque started operating, according to WP), and then for it to have taken a while to arrive in Spain by ship so by the time it was registered it was already early 1924. Congratulations!
I will post the unedited photograph (showing the license plate) later today.
Any additional info about the car (model denomination, engine...) will be welcome, I have none.

[el_monty]

Unedited photo