What's this car please?

[RicksAlfas]

Can anyone identify this car please? The photo has come to light in a box of old family stuff. I think the photo was taken mid to late 1930s.
The closest I could come up with was a Peugeot 401, but that doesn't fit the badge on the top of the radiator.
the registration is either HO 5899 or HD 5899.

Many thanks.

[The Surveyor]

The badge looks Rover to me. Looks like a Rover Ten.

[Doofus]

Standard 12

[Allan L]

Doofus said:

Standard 12

I agree - pre-flying 12 looked like this:

[The Surveyor]

Yep, does look more Standard 10 than Rover 12:-

here is the Rover which looks that little bit bigger:-

[RicksAlfas]

Allan L said:

Doofus said:

Standard 12

I agree - pre-flying 12 looked like this:

Thanks everyone.

Yes looks like this, with perhaps the strake through the side grills missing.

I've found some more pics. Stand by!

[RicksAlfas]

Next one!

[generationx]

RicksAlfas said:

Next one!

Armstrong Siddley Hurricane?

[Doofus]

Armstrong Siddeley Hurricane

[RicksAlfas]

Blimey. Never heard of it. Quite a striking thing, though not necessarily pretty.
Thanks.

Another one if you don't mind. I've a few, they were my great grandfather's cars. He was a keen motorist, getting his first car in 1909, but it's not really my era of recognition.

[Doofus]

That's a Morris Ten

[RicksAlfas]

Doofus said:

That's a Morris Ten

In full black-out spec looking at the lights. Thank you! Nearly done:

[Doofus]

Its another Morris

An Oxford Six

[RicksAlfas]

Thanks! You should write a book Doofus.

Last one - the car, not the Charabanc:



Bit of a sporty number by the looks of it.

[Doofus]

You've got me there.

The flat radiator cowl is pretty common on 1920s cars, and I don't recognise the badge. Given the other cars you've posted, I'm assuming it's English, but I'm stumped.

[RicksAlfas]

Could it be a Darracq?

[alsaautomotive]

RicksAlfas said:

Could it be a Darracq?

Good call I reckon - Talbot Darracq?

[gothatway]

Having tread on tyres has always been over-rated

[friederich]

RicksAlfas said:

Could it be a Darracq?

Definitely a Darracq - pre-WW1 16hp:



Great pics - I'm guessing your great grandfather was a Northern lad:

AK3182 - Bradford issue - fits with 1914
KY5026 - Bradford issue 1932
HD5899 - Dewsbury issue v late 1935
CUG167 - Leeds issue Jan 1936 (must have been on a spending spree)
GVM816 - Manchester issue Feb 1946 - lucky boy getting such a car then, even if he did have to travel to the wrong side of the Pennines!


Any more? - would be great to see what he owned in the '20s

[RicksAlfas]

Thanks for the info friederich. Very interesting.
Yes, he lived all is life in and around Bradford.

I do have some more photos. I'm very lucky in that his Dad was a very keen photographer so we have some good snaps.

This is my great great grandmother in front of an enormous goodness knows what. Bald tyres again as we're from Yorkshire.
The family tale is that she was so small and the car was so big that she could stand up and walk around in it.