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28-05-2024, 06:23 PM
(This post was last modified: 30-05-2024, 06:37 PM by JonE.)
These are straight off the survivors list but may be mis-identified as short scuttle tourers rather than the last long scuttles. I'd also like to see if we can find some more body numbers - Can anyone help put me in touch with an owner? Some may be foreign plates.
DD 168
BS 9623 identified at Centenary by TG
VJ 2936 now identified as AE by photo - thanks to NL
UB 3940 identified at Centenary by TG
LG 4667 now identified as AE....
TK 4751
OG 2356
YC 9981
MW 7502
GH 2863 now confirmed AE
GJ 2250
OU6194
PL 1505
PO 2596
JK 1303
SVS 244
X 2230 (SL)
ZV 92017 - listed as 30 Chummy in Centenary brochere
DR 7354 now confirmed likely AE
484 A
G 1495
LG 4976
YD 440
SV 5633
HX 1275
CP 8710
BZ 4343
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Location: Near Cambridge, UK
Car type: 1928 tourer (mag type), short chassis Gould Ulster
Memory is slightly dim, but I think I owned DR7354 in the early 1980s. I sold it to the late Gerald Walker who sold it many years later to a man in Yorkshire who still had it last year. I will try to trace his name and address.
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excellent, Robert - thankyou! Presumably you may remember if it was traditional long scuttle AE.... or the first of the louvred bonnet ones?
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Car type: Top Hat saloon, Ulster
GH 2863 is owned by my father and has been in our family for 60+ years. The car is a short scuttle AE, I believe its incorrectly logged in the register as an AF although it is a mid 1930 build. I stand to be corrected on this.
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Car type: 1928 tourer (mag type), short chassis Gould Ulster
Jon, you talk of vented bonnets, but the very early long bonnets were not vented. This variation was only done for a very short time, and the only one I knew in the 1960s had holes in the bonnet sides to improve cooling.
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presumably like the first RLs then? I will have to go in search of a picture online.. I imagine, as per the RL, they look better but ran worse!
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Car type: 1929 Chummy, 1930 Chummy, 1930 Ulster Replica, 1934 Ruby
Astonishing that the "long" bonnets were made not only in different lengths but with three different sides: plain, the louvres in two pressings with a plain section between (uncommon, I know of only three cars with them) and the louvres one pressing. In other words, three expensive press tools had to be made in something like 5 months.
