Topic: SOLVED: WTH # 425 - 1934 Wolseley Hornet Special Airline coupe by Coachcraft of Sydney

[sixtee5cuda]

For one point, specify the year, make, model, and coachbuilder of this sleek coupe:

[sixtee5cuda]

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Experts?

[jimjarron]

1934 or thereabouts Wolseley Hornet Special Airline Coupe (coachwork by a Melbourne based form whose name I can't recall)

[sixtee5cuda]

LOCKED for jimjarron

The puzzle car is a 1934 Wolseley Hornet Special Airline coupe.  It was built in Australia, but not in Melbourne.  If you find the coachbuilder, you will earn your point.

[jimjarron]

LOCKED for jimjarron

The puzzle car is a 1934 Wolseley Hornet Special Airline coupe.  It was built in Australia, but not in Melbourne.  If you find the coachbuilder, you will earn your point.

I thought that this particular style of bodywork originated in Melbourne so, from this point on, I would only be guessing and be throwing the names of any Australian coachbuilders I can think of at you.  You may as well unlock it and let someone else get it.

[sixtee5cuda]

Unlocked

[58_spyder]

Althoigh the Website of the Wolsely Hornet Special Club of Australia is down and I am not able to go through their base, I believe that it  is the car as described in this text: "Glen was a medical student who owned Gerry Dunford's superb 1934 Hornet Special airline coupe (pictured below). It was one of two built by Coachcraft"

I therefore believe it is a 1934 Wolseley Hornet Special Airline coupe by by Oldings Body Works (Coachcraft) in Sydney!




The car under restoration by Sleeping Beauties could well be the same car as the shop is in Brisbane and the owner trace I have found is also from that area...They claim that the car was a one off Melbourne bodied Airline, hence the confusion/reply by Jim

"1934 Wolseley Hornet This delightful one-off Melbourne bodied Airline Coupe had been stored for some 50 years. The new owner wants the car restored"


The car clearly does not have the Marly airline body nor can it be the 1933 REAL Carriage Works of Ealing bodied car from the UK.

[sixtee5cuda]

And the point goes to 58_spyder.

I was able to access that web site before it went offline, which is where I found this interesting car.  They listed it as being by Coachcraft of Sydney.

[sixtee5cuda]

Another image, indicating it was designed by A. H. Messervy: