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What's this, who built it for whom, on what chassis, when and what's its main claim to fame - for 1 point?:

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Re: NEH 5584
« Reply #1 on: July 21, 2020, 05:56:13 AM »
Experts?
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Re: NEH 5584
« Reply #2 on: August 23, 2020, 06:48:01 AM »
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Re: NEH 5584
« Reply #3 on: August 23, 2020, 02:13:55 PM »
British?
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Re: NEH 5584
« Reply #4 on: August 23, 2020, 03:01:26 PM »
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Re: NEH 5584
« Reply #5 on: August 23, 2020, 05:17:41 PM »
I thought it might be John Crossle's first car but we've already had that.
I must be right - that's what it says on Wikipedia

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Re: NEH 5584
« Reply #6 on: August 23, 2020, 05:45:56 PM »
Indeed it's not that car.
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Re: NEH 5584
« Reply #7 on: September 11, 2020, 08:09:10 AM »
This is HKU 20, a Buckler Mark V of 1951, presumably with the proud owner, W.D. Binns, at the wheel.  The body was built by Versil Ltd. of Rayner Mills in Liversedge, Yorkshire, and may well have been the first British built fibreglass (GRP) car body.  The company specialised in insulation materials. A few years later, the car acquired a Shirley fibreglass shell, but I cannot find if the original body or chassis has survived.

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Re: NEH 5584
« Reply #8 on: September 11, 2020, 11:34:30 AM »
That's the car, yes.
It was, as you say, built by Versil for W.D. Binns on a Buckler chassis and is said to be the first ever glassfibre car body built in Engliand!
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Re: Solved - NEH 5584: Versil - first glassfibre car body built in UK - 1951
« Reply #9 on: September 11, 2020, 01:50:16 PM »
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