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PeterL
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 28/03/2011 : 16:15:23
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An excellent lecture on Alexandria last night contained a photo of King Farouk in a 4 seater P Type MG (poss N or K but I think a P. Usual photo, no front and no back, so no real identification available...) looked like a single tone light coloured car. I have found mention of a car museum in Cairo containing some of his cars, do we know if this might be amongst them. His Austin 7 went, apparently, to Beirut, and one can only hope that it survived the more recent upheavals there, when looking after vintage cars would not have been top of people's priority lists.
One for the archivists!
The photo is here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29633143@N05/2786824394/
Cheers
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Edited by - PeterL on 28/03/2011 20:09:52 |
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kimber
United Kingdom
1529 Posts |
Posted - 28/03/2011 : 17:28:20
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Guess he approved of the Bactrian scuttle  |
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Brian Kelly
USA
526 Posts |
Posted - 29/03/2011 : 03:52:32
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Peter.
Presumably the photo was taken when the car was new in '34-35 (?).
The photos that were taken of King Farouk in Paris in 1954 show
a remarkable change in his appearence, lets hope the P-Type fared
better.
Shukran.
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Mike Allison
United Kingdom
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Posted - 29/03/2011 : 09:54:22
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I cannot recall the King as one of the owners of a P-type, but that is what it is, and a four-seater too, possibly thought to be less racy for the royal client?? The colour I suggest is possibly red, and it was two tone, look at the darker wings. Midgets did not have the top half of the body a different shade from the bottom... they had darker wings and front apron: current restorers please note!
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tholden
United Kingdom
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Posted - 29/03/2011 : 10:33:03
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Mike with respect I think the standard two tone colour scheme on the J, P, L2 etc had the front cowl in the lighter body colour i.e. it was only the wings that were in the darker shade. It may have varied on other models I am not sure.
Regards
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bahnisch
Australia
674 Posts |
Posted - 29/03/2011 : 11:36:37
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| I think that Farouk was born in 1920 so I doubt the car was new (although it looks it!) when the photo was taken. Perhaps a bit later in the 1930's? I seem to remember another photo of him sitting in (probably) the same car. In latter years he led a "flamboyant" (not my term but that of his autobiographer!) and put on weight. He died in 1965 I think. Going by the silver wheels it must have been a PB? Or maybe they were repainted to make the car look later? |
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bahnisch
Australia
674 Posts |
Posted - 29/03/2011 : 11:37:47
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| Sorry, I should have said "biographer"! |
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Bob Stringfield
United Kingdom
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Posted - 30/03/2011 : 09:40:19
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The PA had silver wheels from quite early in the production run; no doubt an expert can tell us when.
A single colour for most wheels - special orders excepted - would have been a useful production economy for the company. |
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