1924 Amilcar CS

This car took part in the Lancashire Automobile Club's Manchester to Blackpool Veteran and Vintage Car Run in June 1990, and is pictured here in the Exchange Station car park in Manchester before the start of the Run.

It's the 1924 Amilcar CS of Roger Firth of Stalybridge, Cheshire, which was made at the Amilcar factory in Saint-Denis in Paris, to the north of the city centre and has a 4-cylinder inline side-valve 1,004cc engine. A note about the car in the programme of the event reads as follows:

1924 Amilcar

Reg: PE 4287  4 cylinder  8 hp

(Roger Firth, Stalybridge)

Perhaps the first C.S. Amilcar to be built, it only

has rear brakes, as well as staggered seating

which allows more room for passenger and

driver. Imported into this country by Boone and

Porter, the London Amilcar agents, by the late

1950s it was almost a total wreck. During

restoration several parts had to be imported

from France, and the original body was

eventually located in Perth, Scotland, being used

as a chicken shed. It has a three-speed gearbox

and a fixed rear axle, with no differential.

There’s a very interesting article about the car written by a subsequent owner which you can read here.