My next project "La Petite Chanteuse"

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My next project "La Petite Chanteuse" 

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7-5-2013

We are off again, this time something smaller and very different to the Packard. I still have to organise some space and collect all the bits. but it will be a Marque 2 version of a car I did quite a few years ago. Despite the title of this thread it is British and just 8 hp. The photographs show 1. the inspiration and 2 & 3 the car of the same make but an earlier model 1926 this one is 1928/9. 

Bj.

Hello John

No, It is a little Singer (no relation to the sewing machine) 4 cylinder single overhead cam 848cc. The Coventry based company started out building bicycles and produced their first car in 1906. They built their last cars in the 1970s.

Bj.

7-6-2013

Hello John

The first one was based on a 1926 8 hp, this car is now in England. This new project is to be based on a 1928/9 Junior basically the same car but with a revised chassis which included front wheel brakes and semi-eliptic springs replacing the 1/4-eliptic springs and rear wheel only brakes of the earlier cars. You will just have to be a little patient on this one. The first (inspiration) photograph is an early Aston Martin. Lionel Martin worked for Singer before going out on his own to make cars under his own name. The Aston part of the name came from the Aston Clinton Hill-climb where he had early competition successes.

Bj.

7-10-2013

It will be at least two or three weeks as I have a week in sunny Queensland then some organising of space etc to do. Having been magnificently messed about by the worlds greatest time waster, I have still have to find a home for the Packard, in the short term at least.

Bj