Topic: SOLVED - WTH # 582 1926-1927 Beverley-Barnes Coupe possibly by Surbico

[sixtee5cuda]

To earn your point, specify the year, make, model, and coachbuilder of this old coupe:
(Coachbuilder is known by two different names, either will be sufficient.)

[sixtee5cuda]

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[FrontMan]

You have saddled us with a delicate problem! Old press reports are often innacurate, and historians have had little option but to repeat what has been recorded. So here we have one of the smaller Beverley-Barnes straight eights, apparently the 2.4 litre version at the London Show in 1927, with coachwork by Surbico. Or, at least, that is what captions this image!
The late Michael Sedgwick stated 1926, and his reference to a Surbico body was confined to a slightly later four-door version. As Michael used to say, "You pays your money, and you takes your choice".

[sixtee5cuda]

Excellent answer, FrontMan.  The point is yours.

I will label the puzzle as "1926 or 1927".  No doubt A Coachbuilder was involved in making this Coupe, but little evidence exists for or against it being Surbico.  Mr. Sedgwick's May, 1976 message in MotorSport is quite informative about Beverley-Barnes.

Single-source puzzles can be hard to verify.  As you know, my puzzle is based on the image below.

[FrontMan]