Hi Mike, I'm going to be awkward a disagree with you here, (but it is just my opinion, and by no means right.)
A "Standard Sports" is a very different model:
![[Image: 1924-Sports.jpg]](https://i.postimg.cc/rsYRz98S/1924-Sports.jpg)
For me an "Ulster", (which we know isn't a factory term) is an EA Sports, that left the works as a complete car with the two seat body we know as the "Ulster" shape.
The cars that went to Australia as rolling chassis in my mind are still 2 seater sports, (and no less interesting to me) but it's not something I would call an Ulster.
Once you get into the world of originality and continuous history it all can get a bit "trigger's broom". Original maybe, even though it's on the third engine and a new body was fitted 40 years ago.
Brilliant, that is how legends are made to good to not be correct!
A "Standard Sports" is a very different model:
For me an "Ulster", (which we know isn't a factory term) is an EA Sports, that left the works as a complete car with the two seat body we know as the "Ulster" shape.
The cars that went to Australia as rolling chassis in my mind are still 2 seater sports, (and no less interesting to me) but it's not something I would call an Ulster.
Once you get into the world of originality and continuous history it all can get a bit "trigger's broom". Original maybe, even though it's on the third engine and a new body was fitted 40 years ago.
(21-10-2021, 08:16 AM)Mike Costigan Wrote: A wonderful photo, Tony. As far a I am concerned, that qualifies as a genuine 'Ulster', since that is the name everyone knows for the standard Sports model. Perhaps we should refer to it as something else, maybe an 'Australian Ulster', after all a Speedy with an Arrow body will be referred to as a Competition Arrow rather than a Speedy...
If your Rolt-bodied car started life as an 'Ulster' then I don't see why it should lose that identity just because its body has been replaced; many years ago when I restored my 'Ulster' I went to great lengths to preserve as much of the original body as possible, but it still ended up with a whole side-panel of new metal - does that make it a 'Half-Ulster'?
(21-10-2021, 08:55 AM)Malcolm Parker Wrote: My Ulster is believed to have been one of two pre-production prototypes that were built for assessment by the Special Forces Section of the Duke of Wellingtons West Yorkshire Regiment , based at their HQ in the old clog factory at Mytholmroyd.
Brilliant, that is how legends are made to good to not be correct!