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Spring Offensive, Documentary, 1940 IMDB

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  • An Unrecorded Victory
903573Allis-Chalmers U [*][*]
9035621935 Austin 12/4 Ascot [*][*][*]
9035741938 Case C [*][*]
903569Fordson Model N [*][*]
903572Fordson Model N [*][*]
9035631935 Fowler Gyrotiller [*][*][*][*]
9035651938 Hillman 14 [*]
903566McCormick-Deering 10-20 [*][*]
903568McCormick-Deering 10-20 [*][*]
903567McLaren 12 n.h.p. [*][*][*]


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dsl SX

◊ 2016-04-05 23:14

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Taken from
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If War Should Come - vol 3 (1939-41) of 3 BFI compilation DVD sets of shorts from The GPO Film Unit.

19 minute account of government programme to plough up 1.5 million acres of pasture etc across Britain for food production.
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Definitely one for tractor fans. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8eo7bZKHUc

Two 2* rejects - but deserve pages if IDs are possible

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(seen twice during conversation at 05-13, but no other shots)

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(2 tractors going away from camera at 07-41 - might match one of those posted, but plain mudguards is unusual here)

Sunbar UK

◊ 2016-04-06 12:33

 For future reference - Car has distinctive and unusual door and glass shape, two seater perhaps or swage line is dropping earlier than the rear door as normally seen.

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(seen twice during conversation at 05-13, but no other shots)

dsl SX

◊ 2016-04-06 20:15

 ^ I thought it looked interesting. Has semaphore indicator in left edge below swage line, which suggests 2 door, and looks opening windscreen?? ... which implies FHC rather than convertible?? He's propping a notebook against the steering wheel to explain that shape. Fixed quarterlights, rear-hinged door. I am a bit surprised the rear window is not further to the left from this photo angle - it's puzzling that the left side is visible instead of the right, unless it's somehow a very small central window in a big roof for something fairly posh and coachbuilt.

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Sunbar UK

◊ 2016-04-06 21:25

 Low slung FHC, and with no side glass after the B-pillar, suicide doors with three hinges, is a good estimate.

I am also puzzled by the rear window, and its relationship with the rear. Perhaps it could be a two-seat body making the small rectangular glass look closer than apparent in the thumbnail?

Searched for British 1930s FHCs, with no success so far.

dsl SX

◊ 2016-04-06 21:51

 Maybe one reason it's not properly shown is that it's very posh. So might send out wrong message about class differences if government officials are driving round in RRs or Bentleys or Lagondas to visit peasants and order them to plough up their humble crofts.

johnfromstaffs EN

◊ 2016-04-06 22:56

 By the middle to late 1930s there were still more than 40 coachbuilders offering to put a bespoke body upon the chassis of anything from a Ford Eight or a Wolseley Hornet to a Phantom III Continental. Not many of them appear to have used appliqué polished metal trim rather than swage lines, this car appears to have such trim, not pressed into the door skin, added on top. After about half an hour's search I have confirmed my guess that very few products of R-R and B that were not drophead coupes (and by no means all dhcs) had windscreen wipers that were mounted to operate downwards from the top rail of the windscreen, the company supplied scuttle having a wiper motor and rack type linkage in the under bonnet position.

My view is that even if it is possible, by some piece of good fortune, to identify the coachbuilder, it will not be possible to say with any certainty who built the chassis.

-- Last edit: 2016-04-06 23:33:20

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