This is a photograph that I took at the
Manchester to Blackpool Veteran and Vintage Car Run in June 1983.
It’s a 1921 Albert Allweather and the programme
of this event had this note about the car:
35 1921
Albert Allweather, Tourer,
Reg: KS 1488 4-Cylinder 12 hp
(Mr A.T.Craven, Cottam, Preston)
Albert Cars originated in the Vauxhall area of
London. The pushrod engine, manufactured by Gwynnes of Chiswick, was of Spanish
origin, having first appeared in a sporting Spanish tourer called, appropriately,
the Victoria. Gwynnes eventually took
over complete manufacture of the car. (Its Spanish predecessor, in fact, was
named after Queen Victoria Eugenia of Spain, wife of Alonso XIII and a
grand-daughter of our own Victoria and Albert).
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