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KJ1592
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 14/02/2018 : 08:40:02
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This is the only resolution I have of this photo. The reg number on the M type looks like JO 516* but I could be mistaken. A nice image nonetheless.
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DickMorbey
United Kingdom
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Posted - 14/02/2018 : 09:32:23
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What a charming picture!
JO 516 may have belonged on 2M2203 - our records suggest so, although the factory record for that car has it as JO 916!
Apart form that the records are bare, unless Mike Dalby can add more from his paper file records?
Dick Morbey
PA-PB 0743
Frieth, Oxon, UK |
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sam christie
United Kingdom
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Colin McLachlan
United Kingdom
987 Posts |
Posted - 15/02/2018 : 18:04:01
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Here's the same view from Google Earth. Shame about the way they've ruined the tearoom.
Colin
Markinch, Fife.
PA 0613
MG3242
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paul55
Luxembourg
728 Posts |
Posted - 15/02/2018 : 18:14:34
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Colin, is that what they call progress? Not to me it isn't.
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KevinA
New Zealand
668 Posts |
Posted - 15/02/2018 : 21:08:29
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Anyone know the story behind the car? The 18/80 used in a series of photos by Bill Brunel featuring his daughter Kitty, was loaned by the factory and carried a JO (Oxford) plate. If this wasn't an MG loaned publicity car too it seems an awfully long way from home.
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Mike the M
United Kingdom
481 Posts |
Posted - 16/02/2018 : 15:09:55
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JO 516 was on a list that the late Robin Barraclough gave to me of cars that, I think but cannot remember, were listed as in a garage that he was researching. It was stated to be 2M2203 built as a 2 seater, with a build date of 6 October 1930!
JO 530 is a Mk 1 Speed model chassis 6642 with engine number JC 10627, and was a Demonstrator sold in October 1931 to Crosland Motor Co., Hull.
(From Oxford to Abingdon by Barraclough and Jennings).
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PeterL
United Kingdom
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Posted - 16/02/2018 : 15:27:34
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So it would seem feasible that both cars were demonstrators. And maybe this M was involved with a Scottish trial at the time of the photo.
I believe the F that Kitty Burrell drove in the Scottish trial in 1933 was a demonstrator on loan from the Company and by that time with the Abingdon prefix RX....
Cheers
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Mike the M
United Kingdom
481 Posts |
Posted - 22/02/2018 : 18:12:14
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Having invested in the picture and received it!
I have scanned it again, and enlarged it greatly, and there looks to be two flags on the front, each mounted between the head lights and the radiator. There is also a white piece of paper at the top of the passengers side windscreen.
It not possible to see what is on either the flags or the paper.
There are no flags or numbers on the windscreen on the 1932 Royal Scottish Automobile Club rally. See picture from the Beaulieu - thanks!
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KevinA
New Zealand
668 Posts |
Posted - 22/02/2018 : 21:21:44
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Ok I'm going to throw in a thought based on nothing but a guess/hunch
Could the flags and paper signify an official photographer following an event?
It would seem to tie in but maybe just a little too neatly. |
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Mike the M
United Kingdom
481 Posts |
Posted - 23/02/2018 : 12:03:36
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Close up of the M type!
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sam christie
United Kingdom
3056 Posts |
Posted - 23/02/2018 : 12:50:54
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Thanks Mike. Excellent detail !
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M type at Grampian garage
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