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Re: Old photo found on the net - is this an Austin 7 ?

The strange thing is, it would appear that the wheel centres are different.
I looked at the picture first off and thought ,why would they mount a darn big Hants and Dorset sign on the Guildhall and then remembered that the depot is opposite and still has that arch. Derr losing it.

Location: Oakley hants

Re: Old photo found on the net - is this an Austin 7 ?

Jeff ,
How sure that it is 1935 ? . Is that not a Triumph Mayflower behind the black car on the left ? mayflower released in 1949.
Sorry mate Sunday morning with nothing else to do.

Location: Oakley hants

Re: Old photo found on the net - is this an Austin 7 ?

The car on the left is not a Mayflower, because they had the headlamps built in at the front of the wings. I nearly agreed with you at first glance.

Location: just north of Cambridge

Re: Old photo found on the net - is this an Austin 7 ?

Hi Derek,

You're correct about the date, a typo on my behalf - sorry about that, it should have said 1953, or at least that's the date mentioned in the caption to the photo. Despite the date, Robert's also correct, that's not a Mayflower, looking at the image enlarged on a 37" tv screen, I suspect the car is older, somewhat larger and possibly slightly more upmarket than a Triumph Mayflower. Funnily enough I think the light coloured car directly behind the large black car on the right of the image, could well be a Mayflower !

Would agree with you about the rear wheel centres, couldn't get my head around that. Whilst it's possible it could be a Morris Minor, I somehow don't think it is - front end certainly looks more like an Austin 7 than a Morris Minor. The overhang at the back is reminiscent of the van body, the spare wheel appears to fixed to rear panel.

I haven't had time to go through the Source Book, but just wondered whether if it might have been some rare coach builders body.

Bit of a mystery car !

Jeff.

Location: Almost but not quite, the far North East of England

Re: Old photo found on the net - is this an Austin 7 ?

http://www.prewarcar.com/classifieds/ad208804.html

Very similar to the Morris 8 in this ad. Hood looks different but......

Re: Old photo found on the net - is this an Austin 7 ?

Derek,

do you mean the car rearmost to the right?

 photo Mayflower copy_zpsd16po3xl.jpg

Re: Old photo found on the net - is this an Austin 7 ?

Sorry to disappoint Nicholas but as a 1936 Series I Morris Eight Tourer owner for the past 43 years, the car in the photo is definitely not a Morris 8, neither the two seater shown in the prewarcar ad nor the four seat tourer that I have.

Jeff.

Location: Almost but not quite, the far North East of England

Re: Old photo found on the net - is this an Austin 7 ?

That's the one I mention above R, I think that is a Mayflower.

Jeff.

Location: Almost but not quite, the far North East of England

Re: Old photo found on the net - is this an Austin 7 ?

The car entering the photo from the right looks very much like a P2Rover.

Location: Colchester

Re: Old photo found on the net - is this an Austin 7 ?

Jeff Taylor
That's the one I mention above R, I think that is a Mayflower.

Jeff.


Re: Old photo found on the net - is this an Austin 7 ?

Close up of the Mystery car.

Location: Almost but not quite, the far North East of England

Re: Old photo found on the net - is this an Austin 7 ?

Big 7 rear wheels?

Location: On a hill in Wiltshire

Re: Old photo found on the net - is this an Austin 7 ?

I think it's a side-valve Morris Minor. If you obscure the rearmost part of the body, it looks exactly like a standard Minor 4-seater. The wheels could be early type on the front, and 1933-34 style with Magna hubs on the rear. Perhaps the tail is a home-made boot grafted onto the original car?

Re: Old photo found on the net - is this an Austin 7 ?

Here I go again its amazing that I get anywhere , it's the other left. Never was good on left and right. The Mayflower behind the car on the RIGHT.
Think positive , it was a Mayflower and couldn't be 1935 , got some right

Location: Oakley hants

Re: Old photo found on the net - is this an Austin 7 ?

I think it is a Morris Minor Tourer. Some of the motoring magazines in the 1950's had articles on how to add a 'boot' to your pre-war car and I think this might have happened in this case. Somewhere I have a magazine showing you how to make a luggage compartment for your Austin 7 Box saloon but it is perhaps better if it is not given worldwide publicity!

Re: Old photo found on the net - is this an Austin 7 ?

Chris Lambert of the Pre War Minor Register states:

"It is a 1931 Morris Minor scuttle tank SV Tourer with modified rear body. It has a painted screen surround, the correct wheel centres for a 1931 season car on the front ( Magna type from '32 - '34 on the rear ) while the upright SV only headlights are located higher than on the OHC models. Bonnet length and wheel base are spot for a Minor. The hood looks quite strange, and not original, whilst the rear body treatment has not enhanced the car's looks IMO.
Just 251 1931 SV Tourers were built - so one of the rarest Minors. Is a high resolution version available? "

Many thanks Chris for this definitive reply.

Location: Melton Mowbray