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| ![]() The Dharbanga Car and now in Calcutta being done up. Only pic I have but source and history unknown Cheers |
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| ![]() WOW.....you always come up with the most interesting pictures ? What are the cars around the Minerva |
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![]() I have to search but there are pictures of this car in a workshop in Dhanbad. | |
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| ![]() Wasif, The Minerva with a legal connection currently being re done by the cartier curator is the one I reffered to. |
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Which family in Kolkata owned the car in case you can tell us? I ask because our family used to have an early Minerva too. Regards Prithvi | |
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| ![]() Feeling sleepy and just about to shutdown, stumbled on this thread and read all the pages. What a thread, enjoyed every picture and reading the history. Thanks DKG. Quote:
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Though the car is restored, I feel the car has lost the charm it has in the initial pics DKG posted(http://www.team-bhp.com/forum/pre-wa...tml#post994569). I agree with DKG and would have liked the car in its untouched state. Even the modifications to the car were part of the cars history and now seems to have been reversed. With all the makeup and with even the leaf springs painted, just doesn't feel good and looks toyish. What was Nizam's car(called as Throne Car???) is now a restored RR, ![]() Last edited by asdfvinay : 29th April 2012 at 00:23. | ||
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In our collection we have a number of early 1900 automobiles in our collection, for example an 1898 Benz 'Comfortable' Voiturette, a c1896 Daimler, 2 x 1900 Argylls, 1901 Arrol Johnston, a 1900 Albion - the first Albion built, to list some of our very earliest. Granted at least 3 were basket cases and were sympathetically restored by the museum workshops in the 1960's as opposed to the over-restorations often seen at 'Pebble Beach' in the USA. ![]() ![]() We have a policy of 'Preservation, Conservation and Restoration' in that order and I have never seen a restoration being done by the museum. Preservation is the principle process, with interventions to stabilise the structure and perts, nothing else beyond. Conservation is only done when a part either becomes so degraded it is beyond preservation and generally relates to a bit of bodywork coming adrift and has to be re-attached or a tyre disintegrates - and finally Restoration, which this museum does not carry out. I have a classic and love to drive her, but it is not worth anything more than a car to be driven and enjoyed because previous owners have restored it to beyond original and with that the history relating to this specific vehicle is gone. It took me quite a while to get my head around the museum's PCR dictates, but being a bit wiser now I can see why. So going back to your original comment "I feel it's a huge blunder to restore these cars as they are such a precious exhibit ....." - I support your stance 100%. Argyll. | |
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Distinguished - BHPian ![]() ![]() | ![]() This month's issue of Man's World Magazine contains an article on Manvendra Singh and his association with the vintage car scene, and included is a picture of what must be one of the Nizam's Napiers. ![]() |
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| ![]() Can this RR be identified? (possibly of the 7th Nizam, given the protocol and its nearness to the red carpet) Though he appears to have stepped out from the Tourer in front, on the ocassion of his Birthday with people around him praying. (Poor quality of picture regretted) |
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| ![]() Obtained this pic for a view from the other side. Did the Nizam's 1934 Ford Model B Tourer originally came with two side mounts? Is it a V8? The car appears to have a longer wheelbase than others, was it a special/customized ford? |
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| ![]() I think it is a V8 but not a Deluxe so only one sidemount ! |
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Senior - BHPian ![]() | ![]() It's been a while since I had last lifted the bonnet on this car but if I remember its a four cylinder. Nothing special about it as far as I could tell |
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| ![]() This is a standard B model ford ,standard wheelbase and four cylinder engine,must be 1934yrs |
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