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Orstin

United Kingdom
637 Posts

Posted - 07/05/2020 :  13:31:47  Show Profile
Not sure if this in the right sub-forum, apologies and please move to a more appropriate place.

A couple of photos that have cropped up on Ebay that might be of interest to this audience:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Brooklands-era-Motor-Racing-Car-Photograph-1930s/264716522116?hash=item3da2559284:g:K7YAAOSwy8ReqwJI

and

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Brooklands-era-Motor-Racing-Car-Photograph-1930s/254584070570?hash=item3b4664a1aa:g:gvAAAOSwLUReqwPV

No connection with the seller apart from having just bought a bundle of Austin 7 related images for the A7 Archive..

Hope this is of interest

So many dynamos

Cathelijne

Netherlands
744 Posts

Posted - 07/05/2020 :  22:18:45  Show Profile
Here they both are. Despite the description of the second one being a J4/J5, it looks more like a P-type to me. Or am I missing something?







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George Eagle

United Kingdom
3238 Posts

Posted - 07/05/2020 :  22:51:38  Show Profile
I also think the second might be a P type, certainly not a J4 as it has doors.'

The car also has indicators as per the P types, I wonder how the semaphore signal works with that exhaust silencer in the way.

George
L2023
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KevinA

New Zealand
670 Posts

Posted - 08/05/2020 :  02:28:53  Show Profile
I suspect the semaphore works just as well as the door does :-)
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Oz34

United Kingdom
2538 Posts

Posted - 08/05/2020 :  09:12:13  Show Profile
Definitely a P body, but is that a six cylinder bonnet?

Dave
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McEvoy

United Kingdom
252 Posts

Posted - 08/05/2020 :  12:45:59  Show Profile
The R Type looks like it may be RA 0256 the Esplen car at Donington in 1935 for the Nuffield Trophy event

Bob
Ex Ra-A 0257 & 8
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Vitesse

United Kingdom
234 Posts

Posted - 08/05/2020 :  18:02:42  Show Profile
quote:
Originally posted by McEvoy

The R Type looks like it may be RA 0256 the Esplen car at Donington in 1935 for the Nuffield Trophy event

Bob
Ex Ra-A 0257 & 8


SNAP! Available from Emmy Models of Switzerland in exactly that (plain white) livery and race number.

https://www.hobbydb.com/marketplaces/hobbydb/collectibles/261712

Agreed on Donington too.
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LewPalmer

USA
3243 Posts

Posted - 08/05/2020 :  18:34:18  Show Profile
Speaking of R-type models, I picked this one up a few years ago. It was made on commission by the Haris brothers in Hungary and is about 12 inches long.






Lew Palmer
PA1169, 2M1281
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PeterL

United Kingdom
1722 Posts

Posted - 09/05/2020 :  09:04:49  Show Profile
The P type bears vague similarities to JB4161 as per general and upper cylinder lubricant...
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MaGic_GV

United Kingdom
868 Posts

Posted - 10/05/2020 :  10:55:22  Show Profile
I can't help thinking that the 'P type' looks like an NE in trials format...silencer added for Brooklands, of course...

Regards,
Graham
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Phil Standish

United Kingdom
102 Posts

Posted - 10/05/2020 :  11:57:00  Show Profile
I believe that the 3 ‘works’ NDs JB4160, JB4161, & JB4162 were sent of to Brooklands to test/run in the NE race engines.

I wonder if this is a picture of that

Phil
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Simon Johnston

United Kingdom
6121 Posts

Posted - 10/05/2020 :  12:23:17  Show Profile
The opening in the side of the bonnet looks a bit small to be allowing six pipes to exit.

Simon J
J3437
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Phil Standish

United Kingdom
102 Posts

Posted - 10/05/2020 :  12:38:42  Show Profile
It does appear to be a 6 cylinder bonnet though

Phil
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MaGic_GV

United Kingdom
868 Posts

Posted - 10/05/2020 :  13:42:31  Show Profile
Another small point, there are slats on the bonnet adjacent to the semaphore indicator. Similar slats can be seen on the bonnet of the P bodied trials NEs in some of the few pics we have of them. Not exactly conclusive, but circumstantial evidence m'lud.

Regards,
Graham

Edited by - MaGic_GV on 10/05/2020 13:43:44
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George Eagle

United Kingdom
3238 Posts

Posted - 10/05/2020 :  13:44:09  Show Profile
I still feel the car is a P type, the bonnet does not look long enough for a 6 cylinder type and the radiator is not F or L?

Also the exhaust outlets from the bonnet side are 4 cylinder.

George
L2023

Edited by - George Eagle on 10/05/2020 13:46:12
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MaGic_GV

United Kingdom
868 Posts

Posted - 10/05/2020 :  14:10:06  Show Profile
To return to the original topic, the gent who took the pics was clearly a discerning enthusiast, others all show top class racers of the time. Some are still in single page collections, and it looks like there are some images of R types at Brooklands, possibly Doreen Evans' incident?

Regards,
Graham
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