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#1
20-11-2024, 03:01 PM
Yet another image from the collection I am working on that has me somewhat stumped. It is not a production model that I immediately recognise but wonder whether there is more than a whiff of the Antipodean about it. Anyone care to make a suggestion?

   
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20-11-2024, 04:54 PM
Hi

I agree with Australia or somewhere overseas with RHD, given the verandahs and the headwear.

Maybe an Australian bodied Ace ? See https://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/austin-ace.htm
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20-11-2024, 06:40 PM (This post was last modified: 20-11-2024, 06:43 PM by Tony Griffiths.)
Are the brakes 6 or 7 inches? I think they're 6 inches; it's possible to make out the hub covers protruding through the wheel open centres.
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20-11-2024, 07:49 PM
I had thought they are 6" brakes, but they look like like well base rims, which may help to date the car.
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20-11-2024, 10:50 PM (This post was last modified: 20-11-2024, 11:00 PM by Tony Press.)
(20-11-2024, 04:54 PM)John Cornforth Wrote: Hi

I agree with Australia or somewhere overseas with RHD, given the verandahs and the headwear.

Maybe an Australian bodied Ace ?  See https://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/austin-ace.htm

The later oldclassiccar pictures are of an aluminium tailed Austin Standard Sports body (built by Floods) not Ace. My car has a single screen but apparently this was to the customers taste and another similar Club car has a split screen.  

The car under discussion could also be a special, with the windscreen strangely shaped to emulate a split screen. The steering wheel doesn't look to have a raked steering box as fitted to a number io Australian sports cars. Are the open centre wheels later 7" with the chrome piece removed ?

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21-11-2024, 01:59 AM
They are almost certainly 6" centre's but afraid I can not identify the body builder. I do agree with the apparent antipodean setting in the photo though.
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21-11-2024, 09:43 AM
The tax disc has a coloured vertical stripe so is a 1920s British/Empire design, as issued in Australia.
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21-11-2024, 09:52 AM
Don't know if this might help. I have enhanced the imaged.

   
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21-11-2024, 10:06 AM
I believe those must be 6” brakes if one observes the distance between the wheel nut and the outer edge of the wheel centre.

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21-11-2024, 11:49 AM
...and the shallower wheeel centre.
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