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Identification, anyone?
Mike Costigan Offline
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#1
15-11-2018, 12:37 PM
I have just added this photo to the Gallery; the photo is captioned "Filling up on the Alpine Rally". Obviously not the European Alpine Rally, those hats in the background look rather 'colonial', so is this in Australia or South Africa, perhaps?

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15-11-2018, 01:18 PM (This post was last modified: 15-11-2018, 01:20 PM by Martin Prior.)
Southern Alps of New Zealand, perhaps?

Love the combination of fag and spilt petrol!
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15-11-2018, 02:03 PM
(15-11-2018, 01:18 PM)Martin Prior Wrote: Southern Alps of New Zealand, perhaps?

Love the combination of fag and spilt petrol!

Yes I was just gazing at the ciggy!
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15-11-2018, 02:12 PM
Interestingly, he appears to be removing the gauze filter, so people didn't filter their petrol even then!
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15-11-2018, 02:45 PM
A few more observations:
Is the circular mark on the front wing a hole? I am prompted to ask this as there appears to be wiring under the wing on the flitch plate.
Also is that " bar "attached to the spring link? And lastly the rear of the car's bodywork, just visible, appears to slope downwards. Is this an Australian bodied early Seven?
Questions, questions!!
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15-11-2018, 03:07 PM
Little bit of research there is an'Alpine Rally of East Gippsland' (AUS), which has been running since 1921. LINK
Not able to find a decent photo of any of the early events, but photos of cars in that area at the time seem to show similar form of registration numbers.
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15-11-2018, 03:35 PM
Chris, the circular mark appears to a more irregular shape on enlargement, and I think the  bar you are seeing is the normal spring clip:


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David Howe has also commented on the rear bodywork, and also the fact that the door is square, all pointing towards an Australian-style 2-seater. He also suggests the hood frame is not of Longbridge origin.

Timothy's suggestion that it's the Australian Alpine Rally seems likely - registration numbers for Victoria appear to be just numbers as in the photo, and there could be space for the VIC on the edge of the plate.


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15-11-2018, 03:46 PM
Apparently the town of Omeo was on the route of the original Alpine Rally. In 1921 the Royal Automobile Club of Victoria held their first reliability rally in the Omeo Shire. An R.A.C.V Road Service Station in Omeo was called the Omeo Alpine Motor Garage. The photo below would appear to show one of the early R.A.C.V. rallies in Omeo. It's said local residents journeyed some distance to watch the cars pass through. The number plate is the same format and the hats the same style. 


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15-11-2018, 05:07 PM
This may or may not help, interesting though, the 3rd part of the article.
   
1929 Northern Whig - Tuesday 27 August 1929 Image © Successor rightsholder unknown.
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15-11-2018, 07:05 PM
Definitely not South Africa, our registrations were all prefixed by 2 or 3 letters before the numbers. Dad's Chummy was TSN 1926, where TSN stood for Transvaal, suburb of Sandton, others were TJ which stood for Transvaal Johannesburg

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