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What is this car?

Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2018 2:21 pm
by Mary Lindsay
Can anyone identify this car? The venue is the Brackenhurst hillclimb in Kenya, probably in the late 1950s or early 1960s.

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Re: What is this car?

Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2018 7:50 pm
by TonyLees
Bond?

Re: What is this car?

Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2018 8:52 am
by Bob Bull
No idea Mary, but I am carrying out some research into the picture.

Saga Noren.

Re: What is this car?

Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2018 8:55 am
by Bob Bull
TonyLees wrote:Bond?
Did you mean Berkely?

Re: What is this car?

Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2018 10:01 am
by Mary Lindsay
No idea Mary, but I am carrying out some research into the picture.
Thank you Saga.....

Re: What is this car?

Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2018 3:55 pm
by colin sumner
morris 1000 front wings don't know about the rest

Re: What is this car?

Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2018 10:08 am
by Bob Bull
colin sumner wrote:morris 1000 front wings don't know about the rest

Well spotted Colin, the look of the side panels suggests homemade, but linked to a production rear end of some sort, while he bonnet is almost certainly from some other production car. All in all Mary I reckon it is a 'one-off' but it would be nice to track down the type of chassis. The reference number on the photo also indicates it comes form some official library (stick it in Google and get a map of Mombasa). More information from your source might help track it down MQC.

Saga

Re: What is this car?

Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2018 10:24 am
by Bob Bull

Re: What is this car?

Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2018 10:33 am
by Bob Bull
Mary the picture was probably taken at the Brackenhurst Hill climb near Nairobi in the mid fifties, may be your source can find out more.

Re: What is this car?

Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2018 12:57 pm
by Mary Lindsay
Wow Bob, many thanks for your clever detective work!

We will get in touch with the Buckler register to see what else we can learn from them.

Re: What is this car?

Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2018 2:35 pm
by Bob Bull
Bob Bull wrote:Mary the picture was probably taken at the Brackenhurst Hill climb near Nairobi in the mid fifties, may be your source can find out more.

Oops! You already told us that! 8-[

Re: What is this car?

Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2018 8:34 am
by Bob Bull
The number plate indicates that the car was first registered in 1956 in the Nairobi district of Kenya, and I have been advised that the car never raced at Nakuru circuit.

Re: What is this car?

Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2018 9:06 am
by Bob Bull
Mary a Google search says the Brackenhurst Hill Climb ran between 1959 and 1963.

Re: What is this car?

Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2018 12:17 pm
by Mary Lindsay
Thanks Bob!