Advertising Last completed movie pages 1912 Bedford-Buick Model 35 Touring Car Ep. 1.01Class: Cars, Convertible — Model origin: 
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Minor action vehicle or used in only a short scene
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◊ 2022-09-02 22:25 |
![[Image: 11_der-schlaf-der-gerechten_1_.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/25109/11_der-schlaf-der-gerechten_1_.jpg) Vehicle make BUICK Date of first registration January 2012 Date of first registration with DVLA November 2017 Year of manufacture 1912 Cylinder capacity 2700 cc CO₂ emissions 0 g/km Fuel type PETROL Euro status Not available Real Driving Emissions (RDE) Not available Export marker No Vehicle status Taxed Vehicle colour GREEN |
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◊ 2022-09-04 01:07 |
1912 Buick models were Models 28, 29, 35 and 36 35, 36 - Link to "www.oldcarbrochures.com" 28, 29 - Link to "www.oldcarbrochures.com" |
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◊ 2022-09-04 01:13 |
Also Model 34 (short wheelbase roadster) and Model 43 (long wheelbase, big engine touring car): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:1912_Buick_automobiles Here's BF8459 on Flickr in good light: https://www.flickr.com/photos/187117926@N04/51295891316/ Assuming the data is correct, 2700cc is roughly 165 cubic inches, which in 1912 corresponds to a Model 30; 34 and 36 were roadsters, so this should be a Model 35 Touring Car. -- Last edit: 2022-09-04 01:15:43 |
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◊ 2023-12-11 19:23 |
Plate info says Engine code 3563 Linked flickr ^ photo shows RHD. I've found hints that pre-WW1 there was UK build of "Bedford-Buicks" - cars & trucks - at Willesden in London, possibly a mix of US chassis and English bodywork/radiators etc. But refs are vague for detail. /vehicle.php?id=1848851 |
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◊ 2023-12-11 20:14 |
Try looking in the “Motor Sport” archives. It seems Bedford-Buicks served as ambulances in WW1. Link to "www.mediastorehouse.co.uk" https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/386259819488 -- Last edit: 2023-12-11 20:30:05 |
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◊ 2023-12-11 20:46 |
https://www.thesahb.com/snapshot-403-1910-bedford/ More info here. |
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◊ 2023-12-11 21:04 |
We have a very small nest of Bedford-Buick cars - 3 sightings but 2 cars, all dated 1920. Online info: 1] from here (auction listing of 1921 Bedford-Buick CX25 Tourer) "Buicks were considered by the British to be one of the better built American motor cars. By 1915, Buick offered a powerful 4/5 seat tourer, known as the ‘Domestic’ model, which was capable of covering the vast distances in the States and over roads which were barely discernible at times. These durable models were marketed in the US, then shipped to England in crates and were assembled at the Bedford Works factory, known as the Panelling Shop, where the English Coachwork was fitted. They were known as Bedford-Buicks, thus escaping the rigours of the MacKenna Duties imposed to protect the burgeoning British motor industry, and were seen in this country in fair numbers, with only 931 exported out of a total of 20,011." 2] extracts from this archive photo of a 1910 Bedford, both description and added comments "This is not the Bedford of Vauxhall commercial vehicle fame – but, curiously, it is a motor car made by General Motors well before they took over Vauxhall in 1925. It is a Buick Model 10, built from 1908 to 1910 in Flint, Michigan...... The Bedford was the second foreign venture for Buick, the first being the 1908 agreement with the McLaughlin Carriage Company of Oshawa, Ontario to build Canadian bodies on Buick chassis and name the cars McLaughlins and, 15 years later, McLaughlin-Buicks. The Bedford arrangement dated from 1909 and was similar. Buick 10 chassis from Flint were bodied in London, mostly by Grosvenor, who later became Vauxhall’s preferred coachbuilder. The Grosvenor Carriage Company Ltd of Kilburn in north-west London was only founded around 1910..... The cars were more commonly known as Bedford-Buicks (a name that survived until 1920), but these two illustrations from 1910 made no reference to the Buick name; the body was stated to have been “…designed and built by Bedford Motors, Ltd. on one of their standard 15-18-h.p. four-cylinder Bedford chassis…” There was a clear attempt to imply that they were British through and through. The Bedford Motors company was based in Bedford House, Long Acre, in London W.C." ... and within the very long and detailed added comment "Although the Bedford was already known as “the British equivalent of the American Buick”, in late 1909 it was misleadingly reported that “Messrs. Bedford Motors Ltd. have purchased the manufacturing rights of the well-known American-made Buick cars, and are thus enabled to incorporate into their English made ‘Bedfords’ all the points so generally admitted as excellent in the Buick cars. The arrangements for the coming year are very complete, and the factory is now capable of turning out some 2000 chassis per year.” By January 1910, the Company and manufacturing address was given as Bedford House, 135,136 & 137 Long Acre, London – the building’s size made it a local landmark. Adverts also identified the Bedford Works in Willesden to be where imported chassis were reassembled and English bodies constructed – it had doubled in size to meet demand by 1912. Kimberley Road off Willesden Lane was where Grosvenor Coachbuilders, operated by Shaw and Kilburn, had moved to from 300-308 Euston Road by WWI. Lambie’s publicity was more open about where Bedford and Buick parts were made during 1911-12, when adverts showed both brands together. ... During the previous year the parent company had set up General Motors Export Co. with Bedford Motors as its European hub making Lambie managing director of General Motors (Europe) Ltd. when it superseded Bedford Motors Ltd. Until late 1912 its telegram address remained “Jelamco” but changed when J. E. Lambie resigned in January 1913. Thereafter, all adverts identified the company’s cars as Buicks or Bedford-Buicks with the telegram address for Bedford House, Long Acre now “Buickgen”." So seems a strong but circumstantial case can be made that this RHD example is a UK-build Bedford-Buick?? |
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