16-09-2021, 03:26 AM
(This post was last modified: 16-09-2021, 05:21 AM by Tony Press.)
Reply from Bill Sheehan in Oz:
Bill Sheehan writes.
Guessing time is over, Friends. I believe the number is OL 7305, and the Sports 50 was used by Harold Hastings who was a motoring writer for Light Car & Cyclecar. Suggest you can detect a spare wheel mounted on the tail top. (Although Source claims that this was an option at the factory I can find no evidence, nor have I seen photos of any other Sports 50 fitted so. Would be grateful if anybody has evidence of others). In addition to the shot included here I have other photos of OL 7305. I have other photos of Sports 50s. One of the early ones was driven in a Trial by Orford (from memory a local Chemist) for the Austin factory in Oct. 1924. It"s number was OL2443 and I believe he had competed with the same car in February 1924 - months before Wyatt, Source etc claim the first 50 was produced. Orford competed in the same or another car OL3443 in another Trial Feb 1925. Curious similarity. Cheers, Bill
Bill Sheehan writes.
Guessing time is over, Friends. I believe the number is OL 7305, and the Sports 50 was used by Harold Hastings who was a motoring writer for Light Car & Cyclecar. Suggest you can detect a spare wheel mounted on the tail top. (Although Source claims that this was an option at the factory I can find no evidence, nor have I seen photos of any other Sports 50 fitted so. Would be grateful if anybody has evidence of others). In addition to the shot included here I have other photos of OL 7305. I have other photos of Sports 50s. One of the early ones was driven in a Trial by Orford (from memory a local Chemist) for the Austin factory in Oct. 1924. It"s number was OL2443 and I believe he had competed with the same car in February 1924 - months before Wyatt, Source etc claim the first 50 was produced. Orford competed in the same or another car OL3443 in another Trial Feb 1925. Curious similarity. Cheers, Bill