Another ID this car - very early

[ChevronB19]

This cropped up in a collection of photos from the northwest in the Guardian.

It’s belt driven and crude, so I’m assuming a special, or just possibly some form of GN? Guy in the background is either laughing or yawning!

[Turbobanana]

Can't provide any real evidence, but this pic comes from the Sankey Photo Archive. The archive features pictures taken in and around the Lake District. There was a manufacturer called Cumbria Motors, active in the construction of cyclecars from 1914, and based in Cockermouth, Cumbria.

No pictures I can find show anything like this, though. The caption on the Sankey site just says "Single seater sports car, location unknown".

Sankey Photo Archive

[austin]

Could well be a home made cycle car, plenty of them about at that time. Even a book telling you how to do it, (repressed version available from Tim Gunn of Repair Shop fame).

[Om]

Guy in the background is clearly taking a picture with his mobile. As it is in the North this could have been taken any time in the past few weeks - its still black and white up here.

[Turbobanana]

Om said:

Guy in the background is clearly taking a picture with his mobile. As it is in the North this could have been taken any time in the past few weeks - its still black and white up here.

Utter rubbish. The Nokia 3210 didn't even have a camera

[ferret50]

It's the driver's reversed flat cap that tickles me!

[OutInTheShed]

austin said:

Could well be a home made cycle car, plenty of them about at that time. Even a book telling you how to do it, (repressed version available from Tim Gunn of Repair Shop fame).

To my mind, 'cycle car' suggests something with a lot less bonnet?

[lancslad58]

Turbobanana said:

Can't provide any real evidence, but this pic comes from the Sankey Photo Archive. The archive features pictures taken in and around the Lake District. There was a manufacturer called Cumbria Motors, active in the construction of cyclecars from 1914, and based in Cockermouth, Cumbria.

No pictures I can find show anything like this, though. The caption on the Sankey site just says "Single seater sports car, location unknown".

Sankey Photo Archive

The same photo this time captioned Barrrow In Furnace



https://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/24097928.nostalgia-...

[nicanary]

Turbobanana said:

Can't provide any real evidence, but this pic comes from the Sankey Photo Archive. The archive features pictures taken in and around the Lake District. There was a manufacturer called Cumbria Motors, active in the construction of cyclecars from 1914, and based in Cockermouth, Cumbria.

No pictures I can find show anything like this, though. The caption on the Sankey site just says "Single seater sports car, location unknown".

Sankey Photo Archive

I think this is a good shout. They built their cyclecars in two forms, a regular 2-seater and a monoplace low-slung car, according to Nick Georgano.

[AC43]

ferret50 said:

It's the driver's reversed flat cap that tickles me!

His great great grandson wears his baseball cap that way round. Drives a blacked-out diesel A3 and vapes a lot.

[Riley Blue]

Is the driver of the mystery car also shown in the third photo here: https://www.autopasion18.com/HISTORIA-CUMBRIA.htm

See also page here 15 (no photo): https://www.cumbriacountyhistory.org.uk/sites/defa...

[ChevronB19]

Riley Blue said:

Is the driver of the mystery car also shown in the third photo here: https://www.autopasion18.com/HISTORIA-CUMBRIA.htm

See also page here 15 (no photo): https://www.cumbriacountyhistory.org.uk/sites/defa...

Good shout, certainly looks like it a few years earlier!

[austin]

Riley Blue said:

Is the driver of the mystery car also shown in the third photo here: https://www.autopasion18.com/HISTORIA-CUMBRIA.htm

See also page here 15 (no photo): https://www.cumbriacountyhistory.org.uk/sites/defa...

Love this from the PDF;

"As far as is known no ‘Cumbria’ car survives, only one wire-spoked wheel..."

[OverSteery]

No idea, but surely the driver is the front man for Curiosity Killed the Cat?

[nismocat]

OverSteery said:

No idea, but surely the driver is the front man for Curiosity Killed the Cat?

He looks bloody French.

(BVP wore a fiddler's cap not a beret)

[Shiv_P]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/266112660356?mkcid=16&a...

[nicanary]

Shiv_P said:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/266112660356?mkcid=16&a...

Definitely not the same car.