Michigan K Tourer

I photographed this car in the Exchange Station car park before the start of the Manchester to Blackpool Veteran and Vintage Car Run in June 1991.

It's a 1912 Michigan K Tourer, and the programme of the event said this about it:

21.     1912 Michigan K Tourer

           Reg: DS 8111   4 cylinder   40 hp

(C.R.Unsworth, Ashton-in-Makerfield)

Another US import, this time from a Massachussets

museum. Known as the 'Mighty Michigan', the model K

was the largest produced by the firm between 1911 and

1913, when the company ceased trading due to fraud by

six of the directors! Only known example in the UK, it

has dual ignition, coil and magneto.

It appears, therefore, to have been a product of the Michigan Buggy Company, rather than the Michigan Automobile Company.

Crossley RFC Staff Car

This car took part in the Manchester to Blackpool Veteran and Vintage Car Run, starting from the Exchange Station car park in Manchester, in June 1990.

It's obviously a Crossley, but the programme of the event shows car number 19 as a 1912 Michigan Tourer entered by C R Unsworth of Ashton-in-Makerfield. This was either a misprint, or Mr Unsworth owned more than one eligible car as the programme for the 1987 event has this entry for car number 26:

26     1914 Crossley Staff Car,
         Reg: AE 28,  4 cylinder 20/25 hp
         (C R Unsworth, Ashton in Makerfield)
Only two of these unusual Crossleys are known
to be in existence - each is fitted with double
back wheels, and both are on this Run for the
first time.