Front silver figure on a Classic Car

[robertuk]

Dear All,

A friend of mine has a photo of a really nice figure of a ancient soldier holding a helmet
and a lion beside him seated in silver.
Where can I get more information as to what car it is from and its history.
He does not even know which marque had this figure.
He believes it to be 50 years old !

What are these bits called again (I've forgotten the term!)

Regards,
Ramesh

[RichB]

Ramesh - the best bet would be to get him to scan the picture and post it here (in fandango or something). I am sure you would get an answer within a day or so! The trouble with these things, known as mascots, is that back then people often put whatever they fancied on the radiator cap, so it may not "belong" to a particular car but just be a something significant to the owner. Incidentally one of my favourite is on the Bean (I think), which was a hare with its ears flapping in the wind!

[tvrgaas]

RichB said: Incidentally one of my favourite is ... a hare

Hare is also one of my favourites , BTW it not a Bean but an Alvis 12/50 (and some early Silver Eagles)

www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~alloyd/alvreg.htm

You may also want to post to www.prewarcar.com as they have discoveries.

[robertuk]

Cheers Guys !

There was a great local car specialist,
Where I could have asked for more info...

...unfortunatly they have closed
(Property developers have grabbed the land)

Thats a nice website . Imagine the trouble and attention to detail those early pioneers had to go to create such wonderful feats of engineering !

Now you can download car designs from the net,
feed them into your PC and voila !
A new car appears in your garage after 5 minutes
(only if you have ADSL , otherwise it takes weeks) :-)

Regards,
Ramesh