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The Hurlingham bodies were the idea of GM's new boss of at Vauxhall in the late 1920's, Laurence Hartnett. he was also responsible for the "bedford " name for their line of commercial vehicles. He was posted to Australia to oversee the acquisition of Holden's Body builders for GM. To build up sales of Chevs , Hartnett decided that the smartest move would be to body some chevy chassis with a body similar to the Vauxhall Hurlingham. The first examples were built on new 1930 chassis but Australia was going through the great depression and buying a flashy car was the last thing on anyones mind. Typical of the holden Bodied cars of that era, mudguards etc would be carried over for several years on suceedng year models. At this point, I will mention a really nice 1932 Chevrolet Moonlight Speedster which was restored many years ago here in Queensland. I first read about this particular car in 1966 when an article in the American Vintage chev magazine was published ,It described how the car was bought in a very sorry state from a Sydney used car lot. The new owner had heard about my Dads 1932 Coupe,which had only 7000 miles on it from new (it still had it's original tires). The speedsters new owner got to together with a well known car dealer in New Zealand to buy the car from my dad. This was around 1973 . Their idea was to get Dads car cheap, remove the fisher coupe body and put the moonlight speedster body on it and sell it for a huge profit....!. The coupe was shipped to Australia but when it arrived the new would be entrepreneurs discovered that the Speedster was on a 1930 Chevrolet chassis which is completely different to a 1932,despite having the 1932 Front bonnet and being sold new in 1932. The coupe was sold to Sydney car dealership where it sat unused for many years sadly. In the meantime a new owner, Darrel Stark, got the speedster and spent many years restoring it as new condition .As is often found on hand built cars,the windscreen posts which were cast brass,chrome plated, were stamped with the job number . Somewhere Darrel found parts of other speedsters, including another set of windshield posts with numbers showing that a few more speedsters had been built after his. inside the body,which is all aluminium over a wooden frame, you can see the hammer marks from the original body builders. ![]() | |
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Distinguished - BHPian ![]() ![]() | ![]() GTO just posted an interesting thread here - https://www.team-bhp.com/forum/beyon...tolen-car.html (Inside the twisted, worldwide hunt for a $7 million stolen car) On which I found something interesting |
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| ![]() Hi Guys my cousin asked me to put these up for you. "You could post these on BHP if you like and see what they make of them. Left side (first photo) (tourer) is apparently RR Twenty barrel sided tourer Barker 81K2 (BWP18 from Bahawalpur). Right side (second photo) am not so sure, and always possibility number plate changed to get it out of the country, as was done with other cars. Quite likely another Bahawalpur car. Pics taken 1971, after export." Again thank you for your amazing site capturing such wonderful cars. |
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Thanks so much for sharing these wonderful images. Looking forward to more. With regards to the Ghost, see the links below This link shows 97AE as a Cunard Tourer, ![]() though here there is discussion of another limousine which seems to match your images. ![]() Over to the experts! Last edited by karlosdeville : 16th September 2019 at 11:02. | |
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| ![]() Hi, thank you for the links, he also sent me this lovely shot. "Above appears to be Indian Viceroy Silver Ghost 69TW. Originally very lavish car. No idea as to whereabouts, although appears in India when photo was taken." |
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Picture courtesy: Juergen Buech via Rolls royce and Bentley facebook page Info courtesy : Henk Gerritsen Quote:
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What a time of history, thank you again for capturing some very special cars. Kind Regards Duncan | |
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| ![]() This would appear to be it minus all it's finery. |
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| ![]() ![]() BRG-418 has indeed been confirmed as ex-Dharbanga (chassis 97AE) by THE Master R-R Silver Ghost historian. Very unique lens on the bullet wing lamps. Thanks a million, Duncan for these rare photos. The current owner had this to say: " I'm trying to get information on a 1920 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost chassis no 97AE which according to the R-R records I have, was sold to the Maharajah of Darbhanga in January 1925 from the original owner, a Mr Pratt. At that time it had a limousine body but I understand that this was removed and a nice sporty tourer body was fitted and that this was then also removed some time later and replaced by a rather nasty, badly fitting open limousine body taken from a Daimler. I have no other history of the car until it turned up in France in the early 1980's where it remained until very recently. I acquired it in poor condition earlier this year. I am seeking pictures of the sporting touring body or any other information regarding its history. regards Grahamtyson" https://www.team-bhp.com/forum/pre-w...ml#post1335467 Last edited by travancore : 17th September 2019 at 18:13. |
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