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What is it ? # 71 (UPDATE: 1920-1922 Ensign )
UPDATE: Kit Foster who sended the photo captioned it in 1989 in SAH-Journal thus: "The British Ensign Six, with torpedo dual cowl phaeton body by H.J.
Mulliner. The British Ensign was built in many forms during the years
1913-23 by Ensign Motors, Ltd. Willesden, London NW10. The Six
was their top of the line product in 1920-22 and boasted a 6.7 litre ohc
engine. Ensign Motors later built cars using the Entz magnetic
transmission sold as Crown Magnetics and Crown Ensigns." Three time winner Carleton Hughes added:" ....quite a nice car
with a single overhead camshaft and seven main bearings, one stock model lapped Brooklands at 80 mph. The same year the company was bought by Harry Crown who installed his dynamo-electric transmissions in the remaining chassis." A small correction by Kit Foster: "They weren't exactly Mr.
Crown's - they were the Entz transmission as used in the US Owen
Magnetic. "
(photo from collection Mike Worthington-Williams, well known for his long running features and "Finds & Discoveries" in The Automobile ). P.S. This was the last competition for summer break, that will last three weekends.
EARLIER TEXT: It's two man shaking a sheet behind a car. Kit Foster: "The long exposure (somewhat dictated by the slow films of the day) and the shaking sheet created a washed-out background, much better for photographing cars in the grotty factory surroundings whence they were made. And what use the bland-background photos? Look at the old catalogs. Much easier to blot out the background from around the car to show it boldly on the page. And you thought they used
illustrations...?" A PreWarCar T-shirt for your other thought provided it the best compared to other senders. Two fat hints. First: this is a British made car. Second: the dual cowl torpedo coachwork is by Mulliner. So you only have to fill in the blanks :-) being the make, the type and the approximate year of production. Please send your answer (with # 71 in the subject line) before Monday 23 June to
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Friday, 20 June 2003
UPDATE: Kit Foster who sended the photo captioned it in 1989 in SAH-Journal thus: "The British Ensign Six, with torpedo dual cowl phaeton body by H.J.
Mulliner. The British Ensign was built in many forms during the years
1913-23 by Ensign Motors, Ltd. Willesden, London NW10. The Six
was their top of the line product in 1920-22 and boasted a 6.7 litre ohc
engine. Ensign Motors later built cars using the Entz magnetic
transmission sold as Crown Magnetics and Crown Ensigns." Three time winner Carleton Hughes added:" ....quite a nice car
with a single overhead camshaft and seven main bearings, one stock model lapped Brooklands at 80 mph. The same year the company was bought by Harry Crown who installed his dynamo-electric transmissions in the remaining chassis." A small correction by Kit Foster: "They weren't exactly Mr.
Crown's - they were the Entz transmission as used in the US Owen
Magnetic. "
(photo from collection Mike Worthington-Williams, well known for his long running features and "Finds & Discoveries" in The Automobile ). P.S. This was the last competition for summer break, that will last three weekends.
EARLIER TEXT: It's two man shaking a sheet behind a car. Kit Foster: "The long exposure (somewhat dictated by the slow films of the day) and the shaking sheet created a washed-out background, much better for photographing cars in the grotty factory surroundings whence they were made. And what use the bland-background photos? Look at the old catalogs. Much easier to blot out the background from around the car to show it boldly on the page. And you thought they used
illustrations...?" A PreWarCar T-shirt for your other thought provided it the best compared to other senders. Two fat hints. First: this is a British made car. Second: the dual cowl torpedo coachwork is by Mulliner. So you only have to fill in the blanks :-) being the make, the type and the approximate year of production. Please send your answer (with # 71 in the subject line) before Monday 23 June to
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