Windscreen

[Bill Dixon]

Chris KC, if you post all dimensions will make it a lot easy to find a car it would fit, ie width height.

[Bill Sheehan]

Chris KC, if you post all dimensions will make it a lot easy to find a car it would fit, ie width height.

It's my thought that whether it goes up front or rear, it would be from some Austin model, as Herbert patented the components as you see them (pillars, tube & channels, wingnuts etc).  This doesn't mean to say that he didn't pinch someone else's ideas before they got around to patenting the design themselves!  Cheers,  Bill in Oz

[Hedd_Jones]

For my tuppence-worth maybe its one of those REAR seat wind deflectors from a medium sized tourer of the early 20's?
Old Motor manuals show them usually with angled side deflectors for the discerning rear seat traveller.
Peter.

Having had many of those, it isnt an 'auster' screen or a generic copy. They all fold up to be the size of a briefcase. 

The flat bottom and the rake should make it very distinctive.

[Mike Costigan]

Whilst I would agree that the top tube is very Austin-like, the other fittings and construction details are not Austin.

[Chris KC]

Chris KC, if you post all dimensions will make it a lot easy to find a car it would fit, ie width height.

Bill,

It's 40" between the irons, give or take a whisker.
Top section is 7 1/2" deep; lower is 9 5/8" deep, with overlap 1.5" (i.e. overall screen height is 15 5/8")
The irons extend about 10 1/2" below the screen.

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Whilst I would agree that the top tube is very Austin-like, the other fittings and construction details are not Austin.

Mike, I've not really been able to inspect in proper detail, but for me the difference in finish / materials between upper and lower screen surrounds and the plain steel uprights suggests a special rather than a production car. A nicely made job though, so I'm thinking perhaps one of the post-war specials produced in modest numbers. I'm struggling though to think of one which had a straight scuttle or a raked rectangular screen.

[Mike Costigan]

My bet is something from the early to mid 1920s; note there is no provision of a windscreen wiper. I have seen those grips on the top screen uprights on something from that period, but cannot recall what ...