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More Maudslay in Southern Rhodesia
After an earlier feature with Maudsley in southern Africa Andre van der Loo returns with a new set of pictures of these omnipresent motorcars:
"Here are two more photo's of early Maudsley's in Southern Rhodesia. Photo 1 shows a 1908 Maudslay 17hp Colonial Phaeton. This car was used by the Duke and Duchess of Conaught during their tour of South Africa in 1908. The Royal couple also visited Southern Rhodesia and the car is likely to have remained behind in Salisbury when the couple took a train back to Cape Town from where they embarked on a sea voyage back to England. Photo 2 shows Sgt. Major Searles of the British South Africa Police driving what is said to be a 1908 Maudslay. This photo was taken on Salisbury Kopje ( = hill) in 1913. Could these two pictures be of the same car? Perhaps Ariejan Bos could cast his expert glance over the two pictures and perhaps confirm this." Andre van der Loo.
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sabato giugno 4th, 2016
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Sconosciuto
06 Giugno 2016, 22:57
I have seen quite a few pictures of Colonial model cars and there was more than one way to get the height including putting the fly wheel at the front. This car is very high compared to some of the others. If there is a flywheel at the front I would say they have done what they thought they had to in order to get it above the axle. I think they could have raised the engine a couple of inches which is another way to go about things and it would have looked and rode better.
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Ariejan
06 Giugno 2016, 18:25
Hi André, all I can say is that both cars are very much alike, but whether it's the same car may undoubtedly be found somewhere in the columns of The Autocar. I wouldn't be surprised if it was however and it would have been certainly a nice gesture to donate the car to the authorities!
For use in the colonies several adaptations could be applied to a car like better protection of the radiator, increased strength of the chassis, better accessibility of vital parts like the carburetor and of course increased ground clearance. It is interesting to see how the Maudslay has increased its ground clearance by the use of extremely curved dumb irons and springs. In America the same effect was reached by using large wheels, and I wonder why Maudsly didn't use these: with these springs the road behaviour must have been terrible. Nonetheless they still had a similar model available in 1910, so apparently there were no complaints.
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For use in the colonies several adaptations could be applied to a car like better protection of the radiator, increased strength of the chassis, better accessibility of vital parts like the carburetor and of course increased ground clearance. It is interesting to see how the Maudslay has increased its ground clearance by the use of extremely curved dumb irons and springs. In America the same effect was reached by using large wheels, and I wonder why Maudsly didn't use these: with these springs the road behaviour must have been terrible. Nonetheless they still had a similar model available in 1910, so apparently there were no complaints.