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User talk:Malcolma
A Shot In the Dark - Movies with Minis in themI saw you added 'A Shot in the Dark' to the list of movies with minis in them - good catch! I'd forgotten about that one. One of the members of my local Mini club read it and said: "BTW, did you know the Mini Peter Sellers drove belonged to director Blake Edwards? The car still exists and was the subject of a feature article in MiniWorld (or Mini Magazine?) some years ago. Apparently driving the Mini in the film was what got Sellers hooked on Minis in his personal life." Are you sure about the detail you added about the car belonging to Sellers or could your memory be off a bit? It's possible you are both right - and this guy is thinking of an earlier Pink Panther movie...but I kinda think he's right. I didn't want to RV you because you may have more solid evidence. SteveBaker 03:06, 3 March 2006 (UTC) Hmmm - well the car is a Radford Mini De'Ville...but the story is *way* confusing: http://members.aol.com/cotsmm/cots3_7.html "Few cars achieved as much fame in the 60's as Peter Sellers wicker painted Mini Cooper used in the Pink Panther film "A Shot in the Dark". Sellers commissioned this car from the Radford company in 1964, specifying every conceivable extra and built to a standard usually reserved for Rolls Royce motor cars. Sellers used the car as his personal transport for a number of years then he sent it to film director Blake Edwards as a gift." OK - so the car was owned by Sellers when the filming was going on - but then given to Edwards later? That doesn't sound like Edwards was the one who hooked Sellers on Minis? ...but then this web site: http://www.radfordmini.free-online.co.uk/films.htm "The film sees Sellers play the bungling Inspector Jacques Clouseau and driving A Radford Mini de Ville with wicker-work sides. There are quite a few good shots of the car although it seems that three differant cars were used all being L.H.D. The Radford Mini de Ville that was used for the majority of the filming still exists. it was shipped back from America in 1994 and now resides in the 'Car of the Stars Museum' Cumbria, England." So now there are three cars? One of which was Seller's personal car with all the extras? Seems kinda unlikely. Urgh! I hate facts! SteveBaker 04:02, 3 March 2006 (UTC) To clarify all of the above, I imported this car to the UK from California in 1993 and thoroughly researched it's history at that time before carrying out a restoration to original specification. Peter Sellers had been hooked on coachbuilt Mini conversions a couple of years before the film was shot. He suggested to director Blake Edwards that Clouseau should have one in the film and the production company ordered a left drive French specification Mini Cooper from Radford. This car was used for the majority of the British studio scenes. A second unit went on location to France to shoot a short sequence, containing a naked Clouseau and Maria (employing doubles), showing the Mini driving from the nudist camp to the traffic jam in Paris, using a similar looking Mini 850 in black with wicker side panels. However, from memory, it did not feature the fog/spot lamps, sunroof or roof aerial which the Radford sported. I believe that this car was one of a special batch ordered by a Paris dealer from BMC. The traffic jam in the Paris square was filmed in the UK and utilised the first car again. The scenes with dialogue inside the car and filmed through the Mini's windscreen appear to involve the use of a third car, as the just visible rear seat is a totally different pattern to the first car and this could well be Peter's own Radford. Being a right drive car I assume the film was reversed to rectify this anomaly and the occupants' hair styles do seem slightly altered to dilute the mirroring effect. When shooting finished, the company was quickly wound up and Blake Edwards shipped the first car to Los Angeles and used it for a few months before passing it to director Billy Wilder who, with Blake, was working for the Mirisch Corporation. Over the next three years, various members of the Mirisch family had use of the car before finally being part-exchanged for a Jaguar at Hollywood Sportscars. The new buyer owned it until just before I acquired it. In a letter in my possession, Blake Edwards recalls crossing a street in LA some years later, seeing the Radford and flagging down the driver saying " Hey, that's my car from "Shot in the Dark"!. The owner remembered this occasion too. As correctly stated the car was bought from me by the "Cars of the Stars" Museum but their website misdescribes the car as being one of Peter Seller's Radfords. Its use in the film was inspired by him and he certainly drove it but it was whisked away to the US as soon as the film was completed. The film car appears to have been a rush job conversion by Radford as the donor car was finished in Fiesta Yellow and the black repaint covered only the external panels. In the final scene when Herbert Lom is seen planting a bomb under the bonnet (hood), this is apparent as the inner wings are clearly visible in pale yellow. I am sure Peter's cars would have been detailed to a better standard and to a higher specification. John Adair 21/04/2006 Morris Minor 1928Nice to see your article on the 1928 Morris Minor. It looks good. I see from your user page that you're interested in old cars. Do you know anything about Hotchkiss? Adrian Robson 12:00, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
Triumph 1800 Roadster + British Cars Task ForceHello, Browsing recent automotive articles I have come across your great article on the Triumph, and I thought it would be a very good candidate for being featured in Template:DYK. What is important is that it contains a really nice picture of the vehicle. A small problem is that there is a fair amount of background surrounding the car, so when resized to the tiny 100x100 DYK format, the car gets lost. As this is your photo, I did not want to do any changes to it, but perhaps you might consider uploading a cropped version for the purpose of DYK (if you'd like to keep the original one in the article)? I would also like to ask whether you would be interested in joining the proposed British Cars Task Force - for details, see WikiProject Automobiles talk page. Regards, Bravada, talk - 20:20, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
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veteran 1900 => 1905Per the change in various places that veteran includes cars produced until 1905, could you make sure that the autos previously in Category:Brass auto stubs and which were made from 1900-1905 get sorted to {{Veteran-auto-stub}}? (I don't really have an opinion on the matter, it'd just be nice to have things consistent) (I went ahead and made all the text in the other templates and categories consistent, but there's the 181 brass articles to sort through...) --Interiot 10:05, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
Ford SAFMalcolma, thanks a lot for taking care of the Ford SAF article. I will be grateful if you could state what sources you were using when expanding this article. If you speak German, you might also want to take a look at this page - it provides some more information on the commercial vehicle side of the business. Regards, Bravada, talk - 14:46, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
More Simca stuffHi Malcolma! I just wanted to tell you that I have started a section on talk:Simca to discuss and coordinate efforts regarding all Simca-related articles! Do take a look, and also continue to contribute your great stuff to all those articles that need them so desperately. You might also consider helping to procure free pictures for the articles that need them. Thanks! Bravada, talk - 06:03, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
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Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire 346 transmissionHi Malcoma, I was pleased to find the Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire page on the wiki. The article brought back wonderful memories from when my father ownned two long-wheelbase limousine variants for wedding-car hire. I spent countless hours polishing and valeting them to earn pocket money, so I am familiar with almost every square inch of them, and that's a lot of square inches! The reason that I am contacting you is that I noticed that you made an edit concerning the transmission options of the 346. One of our cars had the "Wilson" pre-select gearbox whereas the other had a 4-speed manual collumn-change gearbox, an option not mentioned in the article. I shall make an edit to that effect, but as my memory is a bit sketchy regarding details, I would be grateful if you could verify my changes. Many thanks=Red Sunset 19:29, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
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Mini in The Italian Job (2003)Re: The edit summary for your revert in Mini. Actually, there was a red and white classic Mini in the 2003 remake of The Italian Job - Charlize Theron drives it in the early part of the movie and there is an implication that her evident love of the car is the inspiration for using modern MINI's to recover the gold later on. But I agree with your revert for other reasons. SteveBaker 11:16, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
Morris TenHi Malcolma. You are off to such a great start on the article Morris Ten that it may qualify to appear on Wikipedia's Main Page under the Did you know... section. Appearing on the Main Page would help bring publicity and assistance to the article. However, there is a five day from article creation window for Did you know... nominations. Before five days pass from the date the article was created, please consider nominating the article to appear on the Main Page by posting a nomination at Did you know suggestions. Again, great job on the article. -- Jreferee (Talk) 20:52, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
Morris MajorHello, Malcolm A. I gave the Morris Major a mention in the Morris Minor article a few months ago hoping someone might be prompted to give the thing an article of its own. The Morris Major was an Australian built Wolseley 1500 / Rile 1.5 sort of a car in the early 1960s with fins and a squared off front, and employing the 1622 cc engine which in Europe fetched up in the A60/Oxford and siblings. Which is roughly what I know, courtesy of a half forgotten page in the Observers' Book of Cars from round about 1961. But you looked as though you just might be the one to have the combination of knowledge and access to sources and wiki-curiosity to ... um ... do the thing properly. Well, a person can ask. Success. Charles01 16:17, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
Sunbeam Alpine22/2/08 Hello Malcolm, sorry mate but your recent editions of the Sunbeam Alpine page are incorrect. You are right in saying that the Alpines were derived from the Saloon MK11A and MK111 models but Sunbeam Talbot named them as the Alpine MK1 and the Alpine MK3. Don't ask me why but that's how it was. This anomoly was previously in the text that you have taken out. The car shown is an Alpine MK1, I know because it is my actual car. It is definately NOT a MK3 as there are subtle differences to the exterior and interior, as well as the engine being different. Please check this out at the official STAR website if you wish, the link is on the same page. Thought I'd do it this way as you're email isn't registered. But feel free to email me back if you want to discuss it further. I won't "undo" the edits, I'll let you re-edit them back. Cheers Bill —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nqtraderman (talk • contribs) 15:11, 22 February 2008 (UTC) Looks fine now Malcolm. thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nqtraderman (talk • contribs) 17:48, 22 February 2008 (UTC) Triumph RenownGood to see the Renown finally getting a page of its own - it was a glaring omission from the Triumph car pages. Are you going to expand this page to include details of the 1800 T&C saloon that the Renown developed from ? There seems little point in giving it a separate page and without it the Renown story is incomplete. RGCorris (talk) 14:09, 11 April 2008 (UTC) Re your reply - I don't have any particular knowledge of the 1800 T&C and don't have my reference books to hand, so wouldn't be able to add anything for a few weeks. RGCorris (talk) 08:12, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
Length of Jaguar 1½ & 2½ litres: conflict of evidenceI’m sorry to bother you with this, Malcolm, but … you might be able to access the answer. I’ve been rummaging in the loft , and come across the April 1960 edition of Practical Motorist which includes a little section on second hand (second hand in 1960) cars. They have an entry for the Jaguar 1½-litre. The length is given as 14 ft 5 in. ie 173 inches. They also include the statement “This was the smallest of the Jaguars made, though merely in engine size as the body dimensions were the same as on the two higher powered cars.” I confess that’s how I remember it. I thought they all ‘looked the same’ but some had bigger engines than others. Though I freely admit that taken in isolation, how I remember stuff is a pretty dodgy source. The wiki entry at Jaguar Mark IV gives a longer length for the 2½ litre than for the 1½ litre, however. It gives the the 2½ litre a 186 inch length whereas the 1½ litre, according to the wiki entry, is only 173 inches long. This comes from Culshaw and Horribin which is usually fairly reliable, tho he sometimes seems to be too short of space to explain what he means where things get a little complicated. That’s my feeling anyhow. In other words, there is no conflict of evidence between the two sources I’ve looked at concerning the length of the 1½ litre. But there is an implicit conflict concerning that of the 2½ litre. A conflict exceeding 12 inches of car length. There MAY be complications arising from changes to both cars (saloon/sedan versions) between 1935 and 1948. I don’t think even your archive goes back to the glory days of these Jaguars, but Jaguars are the sort of car that get written about in retrospect more than some… Do you by any chance have access to anything on whether or not these two cars shared the same body (and therefore the same body dimensions) either (1) at any time or (2) regarding the way they came out after 1945. Thank you if you will have any thoughts to share on this. Best wishes. Charles01 (talk) 07:28, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
Albany (English) replica of early automobile built in 1970'sI have one, can you tell me more about it. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Renaissance7760 (talk • contribs) 23:40, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
Thanks, Billy Renaissance7760 (talk) 17:28, 25 August 2009 (UTC) The Albany was an English automobile, manufactured by the Albany Motor Carriage Company in Christchurch, Dorset from 1971[1]. It was designed as a classic car, in the Edwardian style, but is not a replica of any particular marque although with some resemblance to a 1908 Buick. Early models used the engine and suspension from the Morris Minor in a specially built tubular steel chassis. The engine was governed to allow a maximum speed of 40mph[1]. The car was hand built and quite expensive at £1987 before a long list of extras was added.[2] From 1974 a Triumph Spitfire 1300cc engine was used and a longer wheelbase five seat option came in 1976. The motor car was designed and produced by two brothers who also made a replica 1910 AEC open air bus that is now on display in the Beaulieu motor museum in Dorset. In 1973 about a car every two weeks was being produced [2] and exports to the United States started. However, after about 12 cars were shipped the importing company failed. The price in 1974, now with a 1500cc Triumph engine had risen to £2487. By 1977 110 cars had been built[2]. As of 1992, the open-top Albany, featuring a 1500cc Triumph Spitfire engine, was being built for export only. The company closed in 1997.
We do remember the above company which we think operated from premises in Groveley Road, Christchurch. It is now occupied by a plumbers merchants. They made replica vintage vehicles including vans for the commercial trade and also for export. They ceased manufacture some years ago - there is some information on the company in Wikipedia - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albany_(automobile). The Christchurch Local History Society might also be able to help. Their website is http://www.communigate.co.uk/dorset/clhs/ Regards and Good Luck! Sean Hawkins Customer Services Manager Christchurch Borough Council Tel: 01202 495153 Fax: Email: s.hawkins@christchurch.gov.uk Web: http://www.dorsetforyou.com <<Email Cost Letter.rtf>> Dear Mr Fuller, Thank you for your recent E-mail. I'm afraid that I can tell you very little about the Albany Motor Carriage Company other than that they were in business at 25 Grovely Road in Christchurch, Dorset from 1971 until the 1980s. The company was run by Bryan and David Shepherd but I'm afraid that I have no contact details for them. It occurred to us that you could contact the local newspaper in that area 'The Bournemouth Echo' as they may be able to print an appeal on your behalf to contact any former employees still in living locally. The website is www.bournemouthecho.co.uk I know little of the history of the replica bus that operates in our grounds. It is based on a Ford D Series lorry chassis and dates, I think, from 1974. It appeard in the 1970s remake of the film 'The 39 Steps' starring Robert Powell. Our reference Library has a small amount of information about the cars. Attached is a short list of references from motoring magazines. We also have two examples of Albany sales literature: A 1974 brochure of some six pages. A 1977 brochure of four pages together with a further three pages of specifications and dimensions. Copies of the above may be obtained at the rates shown in the accompanying cost letter. Charges will include the enquiry fee, copying, post/packing etc. Please complete and return the attached payment slip if you would like us to proceed. Yours sincerely. Patrick Collins Enquiries Officer National Motor Museum Trust Beaulieu Hampshire SO42 7ZN I have found some magazine articles about the Albany I could share with you to update the information on Wikipedia. Please let me know where to send them. There were three bothers and I have there last name. Could you copy me the articles from your sources and email them to me? bngf@peoplepc.com Thanks, Billy —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.12.216.194 (talk) 20:16, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
AutoreviewerHi Malcolm, I just read one of your articles at newpage patrol, and was surprised to see that an editor who has been contributing articles since 2005 hadn't already been approved as an wp:Autoreviewer. So I've taken the liberty of rectifying that. ϢereSpielChequers 16:24, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
You are now a Reviewer Hello. Your account has been granted the "reviewer" userright, allowing you to review other users' edits on certain flagged pages. Pending changes, also known as flagged protection, will be commencing a two-month trial at approximately 23:00, 2010 June 15 (UTC). Reviewers can review edits made by users who are not autoconfirmed to articles placed under flagged protection. Flagged protection is applied to only a small number of articles, similarly to how semi-protection is applied but in a more controlled way for the trial. When reviewing, edits should be accepted if they are not obvious vandalism or BLP violations, and not clearly problematic in light of the reason given for protection (see Wikipedia:Reviewing process). More detailed documentation and guidelines can be found here. If you do not want this userright, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time. Courcelles (talk) 03:08, 16 June 2010 (UTC) Austin 12 (1939)I photographed a 1946 Austin 12 at the weekend (it had 12 written on the grill) but I couldn't find more than a passing reference to it on wikipedia. However, there is an entry on the model which, in 1939, it replaced. You wrote it. I've attempted the same for the 1939 - 1947 Austin 12 with a little bit of help from Culshaw and Horrobin, but there doesn't seem to be too much information around - at least not on the web and not in my office. So I padded it out a bit with some waffle about The War. But if you can think of anything else to write about The Car, please feel free... There's something on the Austin 10 entry about a designer with an Italian name who had been born either in Italy or in Argentina (presumably in the Italian speaking community) who had worked for Lancia and then came to England to work for Austin after displeasing Il Duce. If he designed the 1939 Austin 10 he must surely have designed the 1939 Austin 12 as well, because they so clearly come from the same hand. At least that's how it looks to me. The same gentleman appears to have been responsible for the way Austins looked through the 1950s up to the moment when they discovered Pininfarina. He gets lots of hits if you google him, but all that I can find about him seems to come from the same one or two sources, and it doesn't appear very consistent. I don't know enough of the background to begin to assess which bits might be true. But if there is a source for his having designed the Austin 12 that appeared in August 1939, that would be something one could add. The fellows name is Ricardo "Dick" Burzi. It would, indeed, be interesting to read an entry on the man himself if anyone had access to appropriate dependable information... OK, so now I'm getting carried away. Don't, please, let me get in the way of the day jobs! Thanks for thinking about it and regards Charles01 (talk) 18:41, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
Morris Fifteen-Six: Another identification conundrum Dear Malcolm ..... Feel free to ignore this if you cannot face it. Otherwise: I just photographed a Morris Fifteen-Six. That's what it said on the radiator and that's what I believe. According to the UK DVLC (Tax gatherers') web site, the car I photographed was first registered April 1935 and has an engine capacity of 2006cc. So I looked in Culshaw and Horrobin. He does not mention a Morris 15-6. But he does mention a Morris 15.9, which existed 1934-37 and had an engine displacement of 1938cc. So this entry agrees with the car I photographed in terms of fiscal horsepower (15) and in terms of build year (1935). Even though the declared engine capacity is a bit lower in C & H than that of the car I photographed according to the DVLC. However, with pre (second even) world war cars, there is frequently a discrepancy between published cc and that declared to the tax office. I don't know if this reflects careless error, or if people are reapplying factors of pi and remeasuring the cylinder diameters every time they decoke the cylinders.... I have a theory based on nothing more than a suspicious combination of circumstances and my suspicious nature that the Morris 15.9 identified by Colshaw and Horrobin might be nothing more mysterious than a misprint that the proof reader missed. Or is that too easy? My direct question to you, please, is do you know if (or can you judge the probabilities as to whether) the car I photographed in the same as the car appearing on page 226 of C&H? And thank you. (An on balance pleasing) complication is that German wiki has already taken the column in the C&H table as the basis for an entry on the Morris 15.9.) Thank you for any thoughts you may be able to muster on this. Best wishes Charles01 (talk) 13:16, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
I have added the photo to the Morris Cowley article. Malcolma (talk) 07:55, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
Humber SnipeThanks for adding so quickly to the entry I started on this car. I still find these 1930s Humbers/Hillmans rather confusing, but some of it is beginning to slot into place for me. In other words, I was just about ready to attempt a start on the entry, thanks to our industrious colleague on German wiki and to the relative clarity of C&H on Humbers: but I'm not too confident that I won't have inadvertently incorporated the odd howler, so it's reassuring that you've had a moment to a look and add some bits. That was the easy bit.  Do you have any thoughts on a car - this car - that I photographed in summer 2009? As in what is it? I cannot remember why I wrote what I wrote on my own brief note on what I thought it was. And I am no longer sure that I think now exactly what I appear to have thought then. But I think the car must have had Humber written on the grill. Otherwise I'm afraid I'd not necessarily have known. Totally unurgent, but if you do have any thoughts to share, I'd be interested. Best wishes Charles01 (talk) 21:09, 25 November 2010 (UTC) The DVLA thinks it is a 1939 4 litre so I would guess it is a Super Snipe but they should have running boards. They might have been taken off though. There is also the 1938-1940 Snipe Imperial with the same engine but longer wheelbase. Its not an Imperial as they had two piece windscreens. Best guess - 1939 Super Snipe. Malcolma (talk) 11:38, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
JowettHi Malcom, re "it wasn't Briggs who wouldn't supply bodies to Jowett, it was Jowett that couldn't take them. They had no more space to store them". The Chairman's report to the shareholders backs you up on this though not in quite so many words and that was in 1952 - early 1953. All I am wanting to get across is that the terminal blow was that whatever the reason they seemed to know but were reluctant to admit around three months before it happened they would get no more bodies made for them at the ex-Briggs Doncaster plant. Maybe Briggs and subsequent owners simply were fed up with Jowett management and refused further dealings? As I remember it they did find a potential alternative supplier (Briggs Dagenham?) for the bodies but decided to cease operations and cash-up instead. Any idea who controlled Jowett at that time? Still Lazard/Clore? Jopling was managing director as well as chairman. He was appointed chief accountant at Blackburn in 1936, company secretary in wartime, then he turns up around 1950 as MD of Jowett. Jowett ends up sold to Blackburn. I'm not sure that a reference to Jopling's link to them is needed and as it stands now it is not quite accurate. Eddaido (talk) 12:29, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
Should you find yourself with a spare 10 - 100 minutes and knowledge to share on 1930s Daimler's, I've just set up what at the moment looks to me a bit like a picture in search of a wiki-entry. IF you will find you have the appropriate combination of availabke time and Daimler directed enthusiasm, thank you. Thank you, in any case, for having thought about it! Best wishes Charles01 (talk) 09:41, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
A barnstar for you!
Rolls Royce might be Silver Wraith Totally unurgent, but do you, please, recognise this elegant beast? I've assumed it's a Silver Wraith from (1) the age and (2) the engine size, and (3) I think I googled-found a couple of images of the same shape called Silver Wraith, but maybe there are two many assumptions in there. And it still leaves the body unidentified. If you will have a moment to think on this one, thank you very much. Best wishes. Charles01 (talk) 07:23, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
Bound (car)I've just added a Merge from Bound (automobile) tag to your article. The latter was only created last month, has no links to it, and contains roughly the same information as your article (but it does have a different reference in the reference section, which is presumably where it was created from). I thought I'd better give you first refusal on performing this merge (assuming you agree with the proposal), on the grounds that you might/might-not have other mods that could be made at the same time. Otherwise, I can go-ahead and do it. TheAMmollusc (talk) 11:50, 5 October 2011 (UTC) Incidentally, you might prefer to remove the word "inspiring" from the article on Cambro (cyclecar). I know it wasn't you who added that, but Randomguy1997, but I wanted you to see it first; it certainly caused me to burst out laughing, but perhaps this dry sarcasm will need to be removed, after all :-( TheAMmollusc (talk) 15:37, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
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Pope-TribuneHi Malcolm. Can I ask a favour of you? I've just created an article on Pope-Tribune. It was already a redlink on two pages, and I knew of two other pages that were ripe for putting in a link to it. I have created it from the material that I read in the three external links that I have cited, and then massaged it into roughly the same shape as the article on Pope-Robinson. If you get the chance, can you have a look, and make whatever improvements you see fit. Thanks in advance, for anything that you are able to do. TheAMmollusc (talk) 10:55, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
Armstrong Siddeley 236 engineHi Malcolm. Are you sure it was correct to delete this? predecessor = Whitley. The engine was the same engine, other things were different. Regards, Eddaido (talk) 18:52, 23 November 2012 (UTC) It depends on what is meant by predecessor. I think that to all intents the engine in the Whitley was the same unit as in the 236 so it wasn't really an engine predecessor. The engine in its 236 form seems to have come in with the 1946 Lancaster but actually with pre war roots - I'm not sure how far back it really goes. If the entry is supposed to mean "previously used in" then the Whitley entry is correct. On the grounds that I didn't think that having Whitley in the infobox helped I deleted it. If you want to put it back I won't be upset. Malcolma (talk) 11:26, 26 November 2012 (UTC) Vauxhall Motors 1903Thanks for adding the ref which I am unable to access. Are you sure Georgano is being quoted correctly? I believe the correct answer is 1898 (the 1895 on the back of the newspaper photo may have been generic rather than Vauxhall and anyway a note on the back of a photo of a procession in 1931 would not have been intended to be a special record for posterity would it? ). Back to Georgano (who is entirely new to me, is it reliable?) it is possible it is referring to manufacture of a particular model? I don't know but I do not think 1903 as used within the context provided is accurate. First check is: Is that what Georgano actually says and I cannot do that. What I enjoy is the little flutes and the nose of the Prince Henry cars on that cute little vehicle! thanks, Eddaido (talk) 20:18, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
Vauxhall B-TypeHello Malcoma, I'm sure it's on your watchlist, but the waters around Vauxhall B-Type have recently muddied when Eddiado made some changes and drew attention to them. I am not a Vauxhall expert (I only bought a second hand copy of Georgano's Complete Encyclopedia two weeks ago) but I have made some updates to the article and the talk page. I think it needs another review by you. Regards. 13:40, 13 February 2013 (UTC) Vauxhall 20-60 Hurlingham 2-seaterHi Malcolm, just to tell you I've changed the i.d. in this picture here. I would be pleased to discuss it further but here are two things, an ad for the car and possibly another picture of the self-same car. Please write if you want to discuss it further, best regards, Eddaido (talk) 20:59, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
 The article List of Mini-based cars has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons. You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing List of Austin motor carsHi Malcolm, I'm still gathering info about early Vauxhalls and will use it when it seems to be enough to justify amending existing articles or adding new ones. Somehow that activity led me into the Austin Twenty and from there to List of Austin motor cars. I'm writing to you because you were the major contributor there and I imagine architect. Prewar A16I've received a quite long email from the owner of the NZ 1939 Austin 16, I've written back and asked if I might quote most of his message on the talk page and if he can come up with any published confirmation that they were made before and during the war. If he can do that would you be prepared to accept it was a prewar model car? (he suggests UK pre-release production was commandeered and used by the military which might account for "five years battle-testing" etc). This on your own talk page just to let you know its still a live issue. Thanks, Eddaido (talk) 07:14, 18 May 2013 (UTC) Thanks
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