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Old 13th October 2008, 22:58   #97 (permalink)
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Julian some interesting stuff that came up while searching the net. This is from the google books site. What is interesting is there's reference to these cars in US trade reports. Now Napiers were also built in the US. Was it that some of the Nizam's cars were shipped out of the US? I have also come across the coachbuilding name of Cunard. Any light on this? The following references are very interesting should we get our hands on them in libraries. Note the last ref which speaks of a lot of four cars being dispatched to the Nizam




The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile - Page 1100

by G. N. Georgano - Transportation - 2000 - 1792 pages
1910 Napier 40hp Purdah Wagon for the Nizam of Hyderabad.




Daily Consular and Trade Reports

by United States Bureau of Manufactures, United States Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce - Consular reports - 1911
Page 45
A motor-car dealer of Madras has just imported a 6-cylinder 120- horsepower Napier touring car for His Highness the Nizam of Hyderabad.




Historical Motor Scrapbook - Page 103

by Floyd Clymer - Automobiles, Foreign - 1955
1907 His Highness The Nizam of Hyderabad. after testing many of the leading
British and Foreign motor cars, selected the six- cylinder Napier, as being most



Men and Machines: A History of D. Napier & Son, Engineers, Ltd., 1808-1958 - Page 91

by Charles Wilson, William Reader, William Joseph Reader - Engineering - 1968 - 187 pages
... were united in owning Napier cars. Across the Atlantic, J. Pier- pont Morgan
was a customer: in India, HEH the Nizam and a whole pride of other princes. ...


Automotive Industries - Page 710

Aeronautics - 1969
The Napier firm has probably devoted more time and attention to this type of car than any other maker, and for 1907 no others than the six-cylinder cars




A History of Sports Cars - Page 44

by G. N. Georgano - Sports cars - 1970 - 320 pages
... and 'Napier Racing Cars, designed for 5 part in competition'. ... of whom the
Nizam of Hyderabad was the most The introduction of the Rolls-Royce Silver ...

Motor Sport

Automobiles - 1958
Page 439
On the same day a fine selection of old Napier cars, numbering 14, ... Green's 1907 Sixty tourer which was supplied originally to the Nizam of Hyderabad, ...

The Auto: The Motorist's Pictorial

edited by Stanley Spooner - Automobiles - 1906
Page 1669
Above we are now able to give a photograph of four of the Napier cars which have
been dispatched to the Nizam. The two top cars are respectively for HRH's ...
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