This was one of the entrants in the Lancashire Automobile Club's annual Manchester to Blackpool Veteran and Vintage Car run in June 1990.
It's a 1927 Austin Clifton Tourer entered by William West of Blackpool and has a 4-cylinder inline 1,861cc engine. The programme of the event has this note about the car, which is pictured in the Exchange Station car park in Manchester before the start of the Run:
1927 Austin Clifton Tourer
Reg: RU 6395 4 Cylinder 12 hp
(William West, Blackpool)
The Heavy Twelve was a popular car of the 1920s, and the open Clifton 4-seater tourer is extremely reliable, with a 50 mph top speed. Its seemingly unbreakable engine is attached to an infamous slow gate-change gearbox.
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