1926 Rolls Royce Twenty

This is one of the cars that took part in the Lancashire Automobile Car Club's Manchester to Blackpool Veteran and Vintage Car Run in June 1979.

It's a 1926 Rolls Royce Twenty pictured in Manchester before the start of the run, and the programme of the event had this note about the car:

163     Mr E. Marshall, Glazebury, Nr. Warrington, Lancs.

            1926 Rolls Royce Twenty, 29 h.p. 6-cylinder.

1926 Barker Sedanca Cabriolet. Long body with two occasional seats.

Rolls Royce 20hp

In May 1987 the starting point of the Manchester to Blackpool Veteran and Vintage Car Run was the Exchange Station car park in Manchester. This photograph shows one of the entrants before the start of the run, a 1928 Rolls Royce 20hp Barker Limousine.

 The only information about the car given in the programme of the event is this:

135     1928 Rolls Royce Barker Limousine

           Reg: XV 8026 6 cylinder 20 hp

           (Gerald Morris, Bury, Lancashire)

Behind the car and to the right you can see the ventilation tower of Strangeways Prison.

Guernsey Classic Vehicle Club Show 24 June 2012

Here's some more photographs that I took of the cars on display at the 2012 show. I didn't note any details of the cars at the time so I'm relying on my knowledge of older cars (with a little help from Google searches) to say what the cars are.

The right-hand car's an Austin 7 from the mid-1930s, but I'm not too sure about the one on the left. It's a Morris, probably a Major, from the early 1930s.

This is obviously a Rolls Royce and I think the Twenty was the only one made with the horizontal radiator slats. It dates from the mid 1920s.

It's difficult to differentiate between some of the T-type MGs but I think that this is a TA, produced between 1936 and 1939. Bad composition - the bouncy castle is behind the MG, not on top of the roof!

The Humber Sceptre was produced between 1963 and 1976 and this is a Mk2 which was in production from 1965 to 1967.

Another MG, this time a Y-type, although whether it's a YA or YB I can't tell. The YA was made between 1947 and 1951 and the YB from 1951 to 1953.