This is a photograph that I
took at the Lancashire Automobile Club’s Manchester to Blackpool Veteran and
Vintage Car Run in June 1969.
It’s a 1907 Niclausse Park
Phaeton and the programme of the event had the following note about the vehicle:
22. Mr. Peter Black, Keighley, Yorkshire.
1907 Niclausse Park Phaeton. 17½
h.p.
Apart from being a great
rarity in the catalogue of Edwardian cars – there are only two other Niclausse
models still in existence and both these in Spain – the Park Phaeton has a
distinction linked with the world of fashion. The body was built specially for
the haute couture houses so that the four-seater car might be
driven on the boulevards of Paris allowing the Parisienne of the day to
display her fashions to the best advantage.
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