PJ - 575

Paul Jaray · November 25, 2013, 12:30:08 PM

Who did this conversion?
1 point if you know. (I don't!)

grobmotorix · November 25, 2013, 12:56:07 PM

This must fall to one side in the first curve...

Well, it obviously features a Austin Seven grille.

But I doubt it was a serious project of a bigger company, was it?

Paul Jaray · November 26, 2013, 07:06:03 AM

All I know is that it's a conversion of an Austin Seven in something quite strange...

grobmotorix · November 28, 2013, 12:06:26 PM

So it has been converted to be able to squeeze through very narrow passages?

Or did it serve a special purpose?

Paul Jaray · November 28, 2013, 12:28:31 PM

I have no idea.
I can't imagine a decent use for such a conversion.
Those wheels for example...it reminds me a vehicle for tunnels or similar, but I have not the answer.

Paul Jaray · July 31, 2014, 05:11:19 PM

This car is pure nonsense: the headlight suggests a possible use in the dark (or dark areas), the narrow set of wheels are useless on a road and that bar seems to be a bumper for a kid car. Why a single rear wheel and the tandem seat arrangement??

Allan L · August 01, 2014, 05:28:07 AM

Perhaps it's a pull-along children's waggon made by an Austin 7 nut!
I'll ask an Austin 7 nut I know who just might know (or even have made it!).
Do we know its country of origin - and if so is it UK?

Paul Jaray · August 01, 2014, 11:15:23 AM

I took this pic from a pubblic photo gallery, quite known. There were no details about and it was labeled something like 'Austin Seven modified'. I can't remember the other pics in that set if they were from the UK...I would bet they were but can't be 100% sure. I'll try to find it back.

nicanary · August 03, 2014, 07:18:19 AM

There are no flanges on those wheels, so it can't have run on traditional rails, but I can't help thinking that the narrow track would have made it so unstable that it couldn't move without being kept upright in some manner.If that is indeed a single wheel at the back, maybe it ran in 3 "troughs" as we would call them in the UK - channels of steel three abreast.

With that headlight at the front, I've been considering for some time whether it was used underground in a mine of some sort. Having said that, the exhaust fumes would have been a problem. Maybe a fairground ride?

Paul Jaray · November 23, 2014, 04:31:27 AM

Black Hole soon...

Paul Jaray · November 24, 2014, 08:23:31 AM

BH!

D-type · December 11, 2014, 09:37:09 AM

Any gyroscope or flywheel involved?

gte4289 · August 24, 2023, 12:18:25 AM

Quote from: Paul Jaray on November 28, 2013, 12:28:31 PM
Those wheels for example...it reminds me a vehicle for tunnels or similar

Stumbled across these images today and was reminded of this thread:

Paul Jaray · September 17, 2023, 09:20:55 AM

Nice pictures! Who knows if we'll ever find the solution to this.

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