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Solved - MJW #058 - Delaney Sports 1954; AKA Delaney Delta
« on: October 10, 2010, 03:29:33 PM »
Make and year for a point
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Re: MJW #058
« Reply #1 on: October 21, 2010, 02:13:49 PM »
Some expertise needed I think!
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Re: MJW #058
« Reply #2 on: October 22, 2010, 01:42:14 PM »
Nice!
A wild guess, but any Marcos connection?
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Re: MJW #058
« Reply #3 on: October 22, 2010, 02:08:45 PM »
There is a resemblance to an early Marcos but nothing to do with this one.......
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Re: MJW #058
« Reply #4 on: November 05, 2010, 04:28:09 PM »
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Re: MJW #058
« Reply #5 on: November 07, 2010, 05:45:29 PM »
That's a Delaney!
This very unusual sports racer was built by Eric Delaney so that he could compete in the 1950's '750 Motor Club' races. Built by the Delaney-Gallay works in London the car has an all-aluminium body, a John Griffith's (of Cooper) designed twin-rail chassis and an even more unusual supercharged engine. The highly modified E93A engine has a balanced crank, polished rods, modified head, competition springs, race camshaft, vertex magneto and specially designed alloy sump. The engine is fed by a Ken Roberts' (Wade Supercharging) designed Marshall-Nordic manifold and supercharger. The car also has a Ford close-ratio 3 speed gearbox and NEW Alan Baillie built foam-filled fuel-tanks!
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Re: MJW #058
« Reply #6 on: November 08, 2010, 02:11:25 AM »
It's the Delaney!
Excellent full reply PJ.
Another point for you.
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Re: MJW #058
« Reply #7 on: November 08, 2010, 06:18:02 AM »
Quote from: Paul Jaray on November 07, 2010, 05:45:29 PM
That's a Delaney!
This very unusual sports racer was built by Eric Delaney so that he could compete in the 1950's '750 Motor Club' races. Built by the Delaney-Gallay works in London the car has an all-aluminium body, a John Griffith's (of Cooper) designed twin-rail chassis and an even more unusual supercharged engine. The highly modified E93A engine has a balanced crank, polished rods, modified head, competition springs, race camshaft, vertex magneto and specially designed alloy sump. The engine is fed by a Ken Roberts' (Wade Supercharging) designed Marshall-Nordic manifold and supercharger. The car also has a Ford close-ratio 3 speed gearbox and NEW Alan Baillie built foam-filled fuel-tanks!
Several things in that description seem odd to me:
750MC racing's "1172 Formula" was for unsupercharged Ford (E93A at first, and 100E) engines.
Further to that, Wade superchargers and Marshall-Nordec were different companies with (slightly) different products.
May have a line to Eric Delaney, if he was one of the Delaney-Gallay Delaneys.
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Re: Solved - MJW #058 - Delaney Sports 1954
« Reply #8 on: December 05, 2011, 12:18:32 PM »
Two views when the car was new -
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Re: Solved - MJW #058 - Delaney Sports 1954
« Reply #9 on: October 31, 2013, 07:34:39 AM »
The car is still around and currently for sale in France:
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Re: Solved - MJW #058 - Delaney Sports 1954
« Reply #10 on: November 01, 2013, 06:17:52 AM »
WOW!

What a gorgeous little machine...
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Re: Solved - MJW #058 - Delaney Sports 1954
« Reply #11 on: November 02, 2013, 08:44:07 AM »
... and with the roof taken off:
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Solved - NEH 3210: Delaney Delta - 1954
« Reply #12 on: January 09, 2014, 07:32:04 AM »
What's this, based on what and from when - for 1 point?:

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Re: NEH 3210
« Reply #13 on: January 16, 2014, 05:33:39 AM »
Experts?
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Re: NEH 3210
« Reply #14 on: January 16, 2014, 05:38:29 AM »
From the UK?
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Re: NEH 3210
« Reply #15 on: January 16, 2014, 06:22:43 AM »
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Re: NEH 3210
« Reply #16 on: January 16, 2014, 06:16:47 PM »
Looks like a modified Moss Monaco?
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Re: NEH 3210
« Reply #17 on: January 17, 2014, 04:32:01 AM »
Quote from: gilescooperuk on January 16, 2014, 06:16:47 PM
Looks like a modified Moss Monaco?

No connection there - it's much older..
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Re: NEH 3210
« Reply #18 on: January 17, 2014, 05:50:32 AM »
grenfell special
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Re: NEH 3210
« Reply #19 on: January 17, 2014, 05:56:29 AM »
Quote from: shamrock on January 17, 2014, 05:50:32 AM
grenfell special

No..

And I've just noticed I've passed the 20000 posts mark.
I wonder when that was; must have been yesterday!
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Re: NEH 3210
« Reply #20 on: January 17, 2014, 03:02:23 PM »
home build - or bought complete?
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Re: NEH 3210
« Reply #21 on: January 20, 2014, 05:44:21 AM »
Quote from: gilescooperuk on January 17, 2014, 03:02:23 PM
home build - or bought complete?

It's a home-built one-off.
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Re: NEH 3210
« Reply #22 on: January 20, 2014, 08:20:17 AM »
Congrats on your 20.000th post!  :D

The wheels do not point in that direction but could it be based on a Austin Seven chassis?
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Re: NEH 3210
« Reply #23 on: January 20, 2014, 09:04:02 AM »
Quote from: AlexFrance on January 20, 2014, 08:20:17 AM
Congrats on your 20.000th post!  :D

The wheels do not point in that direction but could it be based on a Austin Seven chassis?

Thanks!
No, it's not Austin based.
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Re: NEH 3210
« Reply #24 on: January 20, 2014, 10:53:24 AM »
What about MG?
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