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Monday mystery: the faded beauty of a charming two-seater

We know our readers like to get their teeth sunk into a puzzle, so what better way is there to kick-start the new year than with a mystery car to identify? We've had a rummage through the archives and turned up this picture of a car which is, as yet, unknown to us. It's rather a faded picture and not all that well-defined, but we're sure somebody out will there will be able to name it in an instant.

It's British-registered (Portsmouth), but that is no guarantee of British manufacture, and the two-seater bodywork looks to be of reasonably high-quality. Based on the radiator and other such small details as we can make out, we're going to have a stab in the dark and say that it's a 7hp Swift of c.1910... but we could be completely wrong.

Have you any ideas yourself? Please do let us know and then we'll file this away under 'mystery solved'.

Words: Zack Stiling; picture: Stiling Collection
 

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lunedì gennaio 9th, 2023
Ariejan Bos
11 Gennaio 2023, 09:00
Sorry, read for "coil" of course "cowl" instead!
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Ariejan Bos
09 Gennaio 2023, 23:07
The car is Swift indeed, and most likely the ca 1912 8hp model. The identification is complicated by the condition of the photo, but it is in all details similar to other photos of this model I have in my archive, except for the continuous torpedo line of bonnet and coil (in 1912 in England certainly not the state of the art!). Notable is the fact that the radiator is slightly lifted above its support, the reason for this is unknown to me.
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