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Re: NIC#1055
« Reply #25 on: May 08, 2019, 04:42:16 AM »
A.C.?

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Re: NIC#1055
« Reply #26 on: May 08, 2019, 05:36:18 AM »
I must be right - that's what it says on Wikipedia

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Re: NIC#1055
« Reply #27 on: May 08, 2019, 08:58:24 AM »
Wolseley?

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Re: NIC#1055
« Reply #28 on: May 08, 2019, 11:04:34 AM »
I must be right - that's what it says on Wikipedia

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Re: NIC#1055
« Reply #29 on: May 08, 2019, 02:34:56 PM »
Alvis?

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Re: NIC#1055
« Reply #30 on: May 08, 2019, 03:15:02 PM »
I must be right - that's what it says on Wikipedia

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Re: NIC#1055
« Reply #31 on: May 08, 2019, 03:43:09 PM »
Not Vauxhall?

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Re: NIC#1055
« Reply #32 on: May 08, 2019, 03:58:40 PM »
I must be right - that's what it says on Wikipedia

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Re: NIC#1055
« Reply #33 on: May 08, 2019, 04:53:26 PM »
....a one-off?

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Re: NIC#1055
« Reply #34 on: May 08, 2019, 04:55:05 PM »
....a one-off?

The company built about 50 cars altogether, but I think most of them were one-offs, and not what are normally regarded as production models.
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Re: NIC#1055
« Reply #35 on: May 08, 2019, 05:09:09 PM »
Atalanta connection?

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Re: NIC#1055
« Reply #36 on: May 08, 2019, 05:11:54 PM »
Atalanta connection?

No, but this is much nearer the type of car.
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Re: NIC#1055
« Reply #37 on: May 08, 2019, 06:28:05 PM »
Buckler?

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Re: NIC#1055
« Reply #38 on: May 09, 2019, 03:58:09 AM »
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Re: NIC#1055
« Reply #39 on: May 09, 2019, 04:09:58 AM »
J.A.G.?

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Re: NIC#1055
« Reply #40 on: May 09, 2019, 04:17:10 AM »
J.A.G.?

YYEESSSS!!!  At last. Well solved - nobody asked if the engine was a Ford.

It's from an advert in the 1950s which claimed it was a 1947 car, but according to the Georgano encyclopedia J.A.G. began making cars in 1950. Possibly the engine was from a 1947 car and that resulted in this car being registered for that year.

Georgano also reckons they made about 50 cars altogether, which seems a high figure to me. Some were 1172 s/v powered but this is a V8, maybe from a British-built Pilot.
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