Another mystery car

[jules_s]

JPvanRossem said:

jules_s said:

Still going

No idea why they are so argumentative over something so trivial

You have clearly never worked in academia or belonged to a car owners' club.

[uk66fastback]

ffs - it's mental on that Retro Rides thread. I still think one is being reasonable and the other is just a tool though. No prizes for guessing which is which ...

[Dr G]

"The internet" has the strange ability to bring that out in otherwise seemingly decent folk.

I'm still really enjoying this thread, although I'd die happier if we could figure out what the bloody thing is any time in the next 50ish years.

[No ideas for a name]

Not much to add to this thread at this stage, but the amount of work some people are putting in, and their skills are amazing. Don't understand the bitter arguing though.

One thing that did strike me... the book was published in the late 60's, and up until now (this thread) no-one seems to have wondered what it is. I would have thought that when published, and the picture was still 'recent' i.e. only 5 or so years old, a reader might have been interested in what the car was at that point. It should have been easier to identfy but I suppose there were no methods of publicly recording that discussion if it were to have taken place. Someone somewhere must have done this research back in the late 60's - it has just not been recorded and now lost.

[CanAm]

No ideas for a name said:

Not much to add to this thread at this stage, but the amount of work some people are putting in, and their skills are amazing. Don't understand the bitter arguing though.

One thing that did strike me... the book was published in the late 60's, and up until now (this thread) no-one seems to have wondered what it is. I would have thought that when published, and the picture was still 'recent' i.e. only 5 or so years old, a reader might have been interested in what the car was at that point. It should have been easier to identfy but I suppose there were no methods of publicly recording that discussion if it were to have taken place. Someone somewhere must have done this research back in the late 60's - it has just not been recorded and now lost.

I guess as the book was purely photos of buses etc, the readership may not have been very car minded. The little blue car to them would have been very much just background to that big six-wheeler, scarlet-painted, London Transport, diesel-engined, ninety-seven horsepower omnibus.

[uk66fastback]

Someone might have written a letter (yes kidz, it did used to happen) to the publishers who might have deemed to reply if they could be bothered (to probably say: “No idea’). And that would have been that. Unlike today’s ‘better’ world where information is shared and opinions posted but there’s always some cock who, in their opinion, knows better than someone else and isn’t bothered about letting people know.

Which is very tiresome.

[mbwoy84]

anonymous said:

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I really can't buy that. A good chunk of them may not be interested, but there are certainly some that would have been. Plus, a fair proportion of anoraks will be anoraks full stop when it comes to vehicles. There's no way anyone could be convinced that no one (or no "good proportion" of people) picked up on the car and were intrigued by it.

[Gareth1974]

I wonder if any of the cars in this feature from 1960 still exist in Poland - note the Gullwing special at the bottom of the page.

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vyoDAAAAMBAJ&a...

[Abbott]

I have not reviewed all 100 page so could be wrong or a repeat point.

Problem solved it is a Black Cab. How else do you explain the same van and Anglia.

http://transpressnz.blogspot.com/2016/05/traffic-i...

Changed to a link to the webpage as not sure about copyright

Looks like it is an already investigated route. bugger

Edited by Abbott on Friday 7th May 10:36

Edited by Abbott on Friday 7th May 10:37

Edited by Abbott on Friday 7th May 10:49

[uk66fastback]

Let’s hope so, even though none of them would win a ‘sleek design’ contest anytime soon. I would not wanting to be doing three figures in that one at the top of the right hand page!

[borrani72]

Not sure I'd want to push it into two-figures myself.

[No ideas for a name]

Bottom right - power plant specified as 'oat burner'.

[No ideas for a name]

Abbott said:

I have not reviewed all 100 page so could be wrong or a repeat point.

Problem solved it is a Black Cab. How else do you explain the same van and Anglia.

http://transpressnz.blogspot.com/2016/05/traffic-i...

Changed to a link to the webpage as not sure about copyright

Looks like it is an already investigated route. bugger

It was further up the thread https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
but I didn't see if anyone had tried to contact Mr Trickett (if he is still around).
The painting is a commission, so his customer will probably have supplied the original picture.
It seems Mt Trickett is a transport enthusiast, so may well have talked about the odd little blue car that was to be replaced with a Taxi in the painting.
Long shot as I think the painting is very much more recent that the photo.

[mbwoy84]

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[Abbott]

No ideas for a name said:

Abbott said:

I have not reviewed all 100 page so could be wrong or a repeat point.

Problem solved it is a Black Cab. How else do you explain the same van and Anglia.

http://transpressnz.blogspot.com/2016/05/traffic-i...

Changed to a link to the webpage as not sure about copyright

Looks like it is an already investigated route. bugger

It was further up the thread https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
but I didn't see if anyone had tried to contact Mr Trickett (if he is still around).
The painting is a commission, so his customer will probably have supplied the original picture.
It seems Mt Trickett is a transport enthusiast, so may well have talked about the odd little blue car that was to be replaced with a Taxi in the painting.
Long shot as I think the painting is very much more recent that the photo.

I did find something that suggested many people had contacted Mr tricker but no new info appeared

[Doofus]

No ideas for a name said:

Abbott said:

I have not reviewed all 100 page so could be wrong or a repeat point.

Problem solved it is a Black Cab. How else do you explain the same van and Anglia.

http://transpressnz.blogspot.com/2016/05/traffic-i...

Changed to a link to the webpage as not sure about copyright

Looks like it is an already investigated route. bugger

It was further up the thread https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
but I didn't see if anyone had tried to contact Mr Trickett (if he is still around).
The painting is a commission, so his customer will probably have supplied the original picture.
It seems Mt Trickett is a transport enthusiast, so may well have talked about the odd little blue car that was to be replaced with a Taxi in the painting.
Long shot as I think the painting is very much more recent that the photo.

It would be a bloody odd coincidence if the painting came first.

[mbwoy84]

The photo has obviously just been used as inspiration rather than copied.

A daylight photo/Night time painting

Totally different models of buses

Traffic (road and foot) toned down to make a better painting

Black cab added is it far better fits a typical, period London street scene than a futuristic (for the time) looking unidentified blue sports car

[swisstoni]

I’d imagine that the incongruous car in a bus nerd book did raise a few eyebrows and probably a few queries to the publisher.

However, any resulting correspondence will have been consigned to the bin long ago and is, effectively, pre-history in the age of the internet.

[LarJammer]

Its not the car, nor related but I did a double take..
1955 Astra Coupe.

[thegreenhell]

^^ More pics and details here, if you're interested.

https://www.fantasyjunction.com/sold/1952-astra-co...