This photograph was sent to me by Belinda Simpson and shows a Cross & Ellis four-seat tourer body on what is almost certainly an S-Type, Hyper chassis. The photo was taken between 1947 and 1952, when Belinda’s father, Bill Taylor, owned the car and the cheerful young woman sitting in it is her mother.
We know the car was in Liverpool at this time but despite this, we have been unable to identify the registration or chassis number of the car. If you have any thoughts, please get in touch Contact Us
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A Club member shared this photo with the LeaFlet Editor a few years ago and was published in the LeaFlet in 2019, but it remains a bit of a mystery.
It is a wonderful photograph of a 14 Sports at an American raceway. Through the wonders of AI, it has been suggested that the location could be Englewood Speedway in Colorado, but there is very little information in the photo to pin down the location, so despite the best efforts of modern technology this is little more than a guess.
The date on the California licence plate is 1949 and on the badge bar is a Brooklands BARC badge with an RAC, BRDC badge and one which we do not recognise. Given the car is right-hand drive and the location of the photo we wondered if this was the car Ludgate and Rose took to the US when they were promoting the Lea-Francis engine for midget race cars, but we thought that car was silver/grey and the photos of it show no badge bar.
If anyone can shed any light on the photograph we would be very interested to hear from you.
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