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1916 Wedding car a 1905/06 Rolls ? (update: 1909 Armstrong-Whitworth landaulette)

Does anybody recognise what type of car this is? Current best guess is perhaps a 1905/6 30Hp Rolls Royce, but I can't find any other pictures to compare it with.

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#2 2013-01-30 23:13

Thanks very much. Not disappointed at all - it is an old family photo so we were just interested in finding out what it was. No idea what happened to the car unfortunately though I suspect it is long gone.

#1 2013-01-30 17:30

The car is a 1909 Armstrong-Whitworth landaulette. Although the early Rolls-Royces had comparable (though slightly different) bent front axles, you may notice the absence of a straight steering rod before the axle. The steering rod of the Armstrong-Whitworth was placed behind the axle and was bent in the same way. Therefore it can hardly be seen on the photograph. Moreover there are slight differences between the radiators. One of the differences is a slight outward curve at the bottom side of the radiator, where the Rolls-Royce radiator remains straight.
But don't be diappointed, an Armstrong-Whitworth seems to me a nice wedding car as well!

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