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An MG VA Tourer Mystery
John Bates writes: "MG VA 1279 was produced in February 1938 and exported to Switzerland. It was exhibited at that year's Geneva Motor Show as a 'show chassis' with no body fitted. A VA was fitted with...
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Sarah's super swift Semmence Special
H. Whitfield Semmence is a name well-known to any Frazer Nash enthusiast and in 1930 he acquired a Frazer Nash Super Sports and built a special which has enjoyed a long life of competition. Recently,...
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What is it? Quiz #410 (read >> UPDATE)
You are looking at an ultra fresh barnfind. Many of you will instantly recognise at least the French style of the presented automobile. Yet, when examiníng the photo (we started with photos only just...
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A Philos Tourer history query
Jason O'Shaughnessy wrote: "I have recently placed an advert on your website looking for information on my car, a PHILOS tourer. I managed to get some photos of the car which I received from a very...
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Pollard's Garage line up
Nick Simpson writes: "This is believed to be the inside of Pollards Garage, Chelmsford, Essex in the 1920's. I found this period photo in one of my father's files. He came from Essex. Interesting...
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The 100 Miles 2015 (UPDATEs: Results & Citroen's premises)
We decided to let the pictures speak for themselves. This year the 100 Miles of Amsterdam had its start at the picturesque 'Grote Markt' (market square) of Haarlem, where editor Joris Bergsma did the...
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The 100 Miles of Amsterdam: a rooky report
As seen from a Salmson VAL3. Driver: Laurens Klein. 'Rooky' reporter/navigator: Rosemarijn Veenenbos.Mainphoto Wico Mulder; check his fine selection of the event.Roaring pre-war engines ruling...
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Which type is this 1906 Alcyon?
We like the thin topping of snow on the little French car, so we thought the day before Christmas is the right moment to bring up this query by William Meadus: "This is my 1906 Alcyon, not yet...
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A Christmas parking privilege?
It's Christmas Day and people are celebrating all over the world in traditional ways and some untraditional. Many will visit a church or cathedral, but we bet none will drive their car inside! Isabella...
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What is it? PreWar Christmas Quiz day 1
Another year almost gone by, so it's time for our usual end-of-year tradition: the PreWar Christmas Quiz. This year we are going to do it differently. No automobiles, but something else! What we are...
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What is it? PreWar Christmas Quiz day 2
For part two of our six day quiz we found a nice washing machine. It was made by a company with a history that goes way back to the start of the nineteenth century. In 1810 a father, his two sons and a...
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What is it? PreWar Christmas Quiz day 3
The inventor of this device may have little to do with the history of the car that bears his name. He was a woolgrower and his invention reshaped the wool industry. He was born in Ireland, but went to...
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What is it? PreWar Christmas Quiz day 4
The past three quiz marques may have been easy, but for part four of our six day quiz we are going to make it a bit more difficult. At the age of seventeen -in 1863- the manufacturer of this birdcage...
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What is it? PreWar Christmas Quiz day 5
Part five of our six day quiz is probably be the easiest question of all our quizzes. The predecessor of the make we are looking for was formed in 1916 with the amalgamation of two aero-engine makers....
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What is it? PreWar Christmas Quiz day 6
Part six and the last day of our Christmas Quiz shows a well-known product from a coachbuilding company, started in 1880 by two brothers. In 1898 this coach was especially built as a present for a...
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Happy 2016... but what if?
Some of us can remember when petrol cost 5 shillings a gallon ( 25p) and now it is 5 Pounds a gallon. All sorts of political shenanigans dictate what we have to pay for our fuel and the Bubble and...
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About Quiz #410... Amilcar CGS3 plus, plus, plus... Derby radiator
The Saturday before Xmas we gave you a nearly impossible riddle (also see more photos there) to solve. To identify the car of Mr. Hesselman, pictured above. And to be honest we weren't too sure about...
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A Rational Rolls-Royce
There has been a long tradition of crossover between cars and architecture. The birth of the motor car changed the look of houses forever as architects explored novel ways to incorporate the motor...
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An Electric Three Wheeler Mystery (update: swedish Rex?)
Dieter Strasser came accross this "Nr. 38" electric vehicle of unknown origin. He reports the frontfork similar to the Borgward Blitzkarren but then elektro driven. He has been told that in the...
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Fast and Grand in the January Sales
The staff at COYS Auction House will be busy on Saturday 16 january because they are running two sales on the same day - one in Birmingham, UK and one in Maastricht, Holland. The Dutch event is named...
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