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SOLVED: FW #541: Delage DIS Hill & Boll, 1926
« on: June 02, 2023, 03:18:15 PM »
Please be so kind and identify this car: Make? Type? Coachbuilder? Year?
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Re: FW #541
« Reply #1 on: August 08, 2023, 12:29:19 PM »
Experts?

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Re: FW #541
« Reply #2 on: September 20, 2023, 05:43:00 PM »
Professionals?

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Re: FW #541
« Reply #3 on: September 21, 2023, 11:02:18 AM »
British ?

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Re: FW #541
« Reply #4 on: September 21, 2023, 12:14:18 PM »
Partly

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Re: FW #541
« Reply #5 on: September 21, 2023, 12:17:17 PM »
Rolls-Royce chassy ?

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Re: FW #541
« Reply #6 on: September 21, 2023, 12:49:44 PM »
No

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Re: FW #541
« Reply #7 on: September 21, 2023, 02:00:07 PM »
British chassy ?

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Re: FW #541
« Reply #8 on: September 21, 2023, 05:20:45 PM »
No

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Re: FW #541
« Reply #9 on: September 21, 2023, 06:32:12 PM »
Minerva?

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Re: FW #541
« Reply #10 on: September 22, 2023, 02:21:53 AM »
No

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Re: FW #541
« Reply #11 on: September 22, 2023, 07:51:49 AM »
French chassis?

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Re: FW #541
« Reply #12 on: September 22, 2023, 08:34:40 AM »
Yes

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Re: FW #541
« Reply #13 on: September 22, 2023, 09:11:01 AM »
Delage?

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Re: FW #541
« Reply #14 on: September 22, 2023, 12:18:07 PM »
Yes, LOCKED for you for three attempts to find type, coachbuilder and year

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Re: FW #541
« Reply #15 on: September 22, 2023, 06:30:14 PM »
1926 Delage DIS with body by Grosvenor?

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Re: FW #541
« Reply #16 on: September 23, 2023, 04:10:28 AM »
Yes, it is a Delage DIS-chassis from 1926, but the bodywork not from Grosvenor

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Re: FW #541
« Reply #17 on: September 23, 2023, 09:06:17 AM »
I haven't been able to find the coachbuilder, so I'm only guessing. Was the body made by a well known company like Cunard or by an obscure one?

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Re: FW #541
« Reply #18 on: September 23, 2023, 12:30:53 PM »
Such questions are very difficult to answer correctly, but the coachbuilder is not a really obscure one in my mind..

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Re: FW #541
« Reply #19 on: September 23, 2023, 08:45:24 PM »
Victor Broom?

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Re: FW #541
« Reply #20 on: September 24, 2023, 02:20:23 AM »
No

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Re: FW #541
« Reply #21 on: September 25, 2023, 08:32:13 AM »
Lancefield?

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Re: FW #541
« Reply #22 on: September 25, 2023, 10:18:27 AM »
No

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Re: FW #541
« Reply #23 on: September 25, 2023, 12:33:52 PM »
Compton? Is this the only Delage body made by this coachbuilder?

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Re: FW #541
« Reply #24 on: September 25, 2023, 03:48:02 PM »
Compton: No
Is this the only Delage body made by this coachbuilder? I don't know