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Solved NIC#691 - 1901 Decauville
« on: October 19, 2016, 06:23:22 AM »
Year and marque please. Nice and easy.
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Re: NIC#691
« Reply #1 on: October 19, 2016, 07:43:57 AM »
I was going to post this one sometime . . . .
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Re: NIC#691
« Reply #2 on: December 15, 2016, 08:32:26 AM »
Experts?
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Re: NIC#691
« Reply #3 on: December 15, 2016, 09:23:35 AM »
As I was saying . . .
It's a 1901 8½ h.p. Decauville in its two-seater mode. It has a detachable rear-entrance tonneau if you want it to be suitable for a family outing and that's it in this photo.
I happen to know that it once also had an alternative bread-van rear body but I have no photo of it to hand.
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Re: NIC#691
« Reply #4 on: December 15, 2016, 10:25:20 AM »
Our resident "veterans" expert wins the point.
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Re: NIC#691
« Reply #5 on: December 15, 2016, 11:13:56 AM »
Our resident "veterans" expert wins the point.
Thanks, but it didn't require much expertise as I was with a previous owner when he first inspected the car with a view to buying it. 
It wasn't this model, but around its time an electrical engineer called Henry Royce was shown a Decauville and decided it wasn't much good and he could do better - so he did and with some encouragement from the Hon C.S. Rolls tried again and did better still.
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