Rail-Online Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 Hi, I will be honest and I am really hopeless at identifying old vehicles. Can anyone tell me what these are please? If it helps it is Taunton in 1964 Thanks in advance, Cheers Tony Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold RFS Posted September 22, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 22, 2015 I think the centre one is an Austin A35 and the white one is definitely a Triumph Herald. Can't identify the loco though except that it's GWR! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackRat Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 Ford, Austin A series and a Triumph Herald???? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold beast66606 Posted September 22, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 22, 2015 Zephyr ? Edit - not when I zoom in and see the lights are horizontal rather than vertical Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmrspaul Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 Was that the earlier Ford Prefect before the rather flat 'modern' one came along. Thames Trader lorry (and 43xx or similar GWR 2-6-0 Paul Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted September 22, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 22, 2015 Left to right '48-'53 Ford Anglia, Standard 8 and Triumph Herald. The car behind the Herald is a Humber Hawk or Snipe and the lorry is a Thames Trader. You can tell that the Ford is an Anglia, not a Popular by the size of the headlamps and the Standard is an 8 not a 10 as it doesn't have a boot lid. EDIT The car behind the Herald is a Vauxhall Victor FB. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordon s Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 The front one is a E93A Ford Anglia…My very first car…:-) Edit. Phil beat me to it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 Is the one parked on the wrong side of the road a Vauxhall Victor? At first I thought part of the wall was a wing extension.... Agree on A35 and Herald. Best, Pete. Yep, Phil’s right. Too big for an A35..... I’d completely forgotten the Standard 8. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted September 22, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 22, 2015 Is the one parked on the wrong side of the road a Vauxhall Victor? At first I thought part of the wall was a wing extension.... Agree on A35 and Herald. Best, Pete. Yep, Phil’s right. Too big for an A35..... I’d completely forgotten the Standard 8. I made the same mistake at first, thinking that was a wing extension then I noticed the distinctive horizontal rear lights that identified it as a Victor. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrushVeteran Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 Thames Trader lorry then.........Ford Anglia, Standard 8 or 10, Triumph Herald and Vauxhall Victor FB across the road. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
edcayton Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 Reasonably sure the Standard is an 8, I can't see a boot lid (you had to dive in from behind the seats). Ed Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pugsley Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 Can't identify the loco though except that it's GWR!I don't know why, but I think it's a Prairie tank of some description. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 The Victor is an FB, the FD wasn't produced until 1967 and the FC didn't have such a rounded rear. I had a '68 model. Lovely car to ride in but with only 1600cc under the bonnet, a bit on the sluggish side. The Triumph could be a Vitesse. basically a Herald but with a bigger engine and four headlights, I say this because (and this could be the photo or my eyesight) there seems to be a bit of angularity above the headlights, as seen here: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/1965_Triumph_Vitesse_Heritage_Motor_Centre,_Gaydon.jpg This feature was later applied to the Herald but not at the time of this picture, I believe. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordon s Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 The paint job is one for the Herald…..My third car was a Herald Convertible which I managed to put on it's side in Epping Forest with two girls in the back. Thankfully no one was hurt…:-) The Vitesse was two tone with the white section sandwiched between the base colour to form a stripe. The Herald was was also two tone but split horizontally. Herald triumph herald Vitesse triumph vitesse Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
34theletterbetweenB&D Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 Let's have a chorus of: Koda---c---hr--o--m--e, Gives you those nice bright colours, Gives you the greens of summer, etc ...I’d completely forgotten the Standard 8. Lucky man, I've still got the scar from a piece of the internal trim that fell on me from my Dad's old one, at about that date. Talk of the Victor having no performance, this thing had a mighty 800cc OHV engine that needed decoking every 2,000 miles, performance 0-60 in 'I'm still waiting'. There was a 'boot lid' on the Standard 8, a low down oval shaped one that gave access to the storage for the spare wheel and tool space only. Made the luggage space (awkwardly accessible from inside the car) even smaller than it needed to be. But they were good cars to roll. Would go right over and back onto their wheels with relatively few dents. Either that or rotate slowly, rocking gently on the roof. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted September 22, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 22, 2015 Reasonably sure the Standard is an 8, I can't see a boot lid (you had to dive in from behind the seats). Ed You can just make out the two holes for the T key that opened the panel to give access to the spare wheel. The Victor is an FB, the FD wasn't produced until 1967 and the FC didn't have such a rounded rear. I had a '68 model. Lovely car to ride in but with only 1600cc under the bonnet, a bit on the sluggish side. The Triumph could be a Vitesse. basically a Herald but with a bigger engine and four headlights, I say this because (and this could be the photo or my eyesight) there seems to be a bit of angularity above the headlights, as seen here: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/1965_Triumph_Vitesse_Heritage_Motor_Centre,_Gaydon.jpg This feature was later applied to the Herald but not at the time of this picture, I believe. Definitely a Herald, you can see the headlamp surrounds. On the Vitesse the headlamps were set into the grill. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BernardTPM Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 The FB Victor is the facelifted 1963-64 model. The original version had the rear plate (oblong or square) illuminated from below, the facelift had an illuminated surround for a square plate like this. The front grille was also revised to look like this. This is the version that was featured on the rear of Tri-ang MINIX cars as RC6. It never made production, instead the next FC Victor 101 was made as RC11. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 23, 2015 Share Posted September 23, 2015 The paint job is one for the Herald…..My third car was a Herald Convertible which I managed to put on it's side in Epping Forest with two girls in the back. Thankfully no one was hurt…:-) Totally off-topic but my brother had a Mini-Cooper which he lent me one evening to pick up my then girlfriend. After the Victor, this was a revelation. I was overtaking on roundabouts, cutting up Canary Yellow Mk.3 Cortinas (who, be it noted, used to do the same to me in the Victor) and generally doing all sorts of crazy stuff that I could never have otherwise done - hey, I was young, okay? It didn't last long in his hands: he managed to wrap it round a lamppost somewhere late one night. I believe a female passenger was also in attendance. Again, thankfully, no one was hurt but a sad end for a classic car. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted September 23, 2015 Share Posted September 23, 2015 Yes - it was too easy mistake great handling for grip. The tyres back then were pretty hopeless.... Best, Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
meil Posted September 23, 2015 Share Posted September 23, 2015 It's a Triumph Herald 1200. The original Herald (850cc) did not have two tone paint. The 1250 was much later. The vitess had a different bonet which was later adopted by the 1360. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted September 23, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 23, 2015 Yes - it was too easy mistake great handling for grip. The tyres back then were pretty hopeless.... Best, Pete. Yes, the delights of cross ply tyres. At least with cross plys an experienced driver would know when they were losing grip whereas radials gave no warning. Cross plys used to 'roll up' like a sheet of paper placed flat on a table and rolled, gradually reducing the area in touch with the table. Radial tyres on the other hand were like a piece of stiff card, lift one side and it loses almost all contact with the table. If you imagine that the table is the road surface and the paper/card is the tyres you can see how they effect the handling of the car. The radials are better because they stay on contact with the road far longer but if they loose grip it is without any warning whatever. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
edcayton Posted September 23, 2015 Share Posted September 23, 2015 It's sad that I know this, but the Vitesse (I always lusted after a convertible) had a longer trim strip/rear number plate light, it was as long as the plate. The Herald's was much shorter. Ed Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsforever Posted October 1, 2015 Share Posted October 1, 2015 My dad owned a Ford Anglia like the one in the photo real sit up and beg driving no heater and windscreen wipers that hardly worked ,the Triumph Herald was the car I learnt to drive in and it was fantastic the gear change was so easy and the turning circle was to die for. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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