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Offline purlin

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Re: Identity of Car Make and Model
« Reply #9 on: Sunday 11 November 18 17:41 GMT (UK) »
What about a 1930's Standard  Flying 10
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Re: Identity of Car Make and Model
« Reply #10 on: Sunday 11 November 18 17:45 GMT (UK) »
Sticking my neck out here ;D ;D

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vauxhall_14_at_Woburn.jpg

Notice the number plate fixed to the centre of the front bumper,
Vauxhall dispensed with the starting handle.

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Re: Identity of Car Make and Model
« Reply #11 on: Sunday 11 November 18 17:48 GMT (UK) »
I'd wondered about a Standard or a Triumph....
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Re: Identity of Car Make and Model
« Reply #12 on: Sunday 11 November 18 18:39 GMT (UK) »
I’m with Vauxhall, going by the flutes on the bonnet.


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Re: Identity of Car Make and Model
« Reply #13 on: Sunday 11 November 18 18:54 GMT (UK) »
Vauxhall 14
first thing I said when I saw the bonnet side grilles
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Re: Identity of Car Make and Model
« Reply #14 on: Sunday 11 November 18 19:25 GMT (UK) »
Well done, Mike - I think you've got it.

Having now seen the Vauxhall, I think I can just about make out on our photo the shape of the flying thingy on top of the radiator/bonnet. It's not really clear enough to use as an identifying feature on its own, but it does help to corroborate the other evidence.
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Re: Identity of Car Make and Model
« Reply #15 on: Sunday 11 November 18 20:59 GMT (UK) »
Back in 1948 our next door neighbor had two of them a 10 and a 14, I knew I had seen one
somewhere :) :)

Mike

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Re: Identity of Car Make and Model
« Reply #16 on: Monday 12 November 18 09:59 GMT (UK) »
Thanks to all for helping me on this. I think Mike is spot on.

I did try the Dundee Archives website before posting but they did not list any YJ regs only TS. The pdf  arthurk has provided a link to suggests the records do exist but I guess not all have been digitised. I will contact them to confirm Mike's identification.

Thanks again

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Re: Identity of Car Make and Model
« Reply #17 on: Monday 12 November 18 10:30 GMT (UK) »
I've only just seen this. My father had a 1938 Vauxhall 14. It spent the War on chocks in the garage. Attached pic. must be just post war. with my mother. It had been resprayed light green by ICI, previously black. Next car was a Ford V8 Pilot.

It looks like the pic. was taken in Burnham Beeches, South Bucks.   
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