mike6024 Posted May 30, 2021 Share Posted May 30, 2021 1934 Austin 7 Saloon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffreyadams100 Posted May 30, 2021 Author Share Posted May 30, 2021 Wow. This is great. I'll keep gathering details to narrow the years and details. Thank you. Really brings things to life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilgrim65 Posted May 30, 2021 Share Posted May 30, 2021 Called my red Buick Ruby and I remember Austin produced a small car in 30s called a Ruby 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Kingsley Posted May 30, 2021 Share Posted May 30, 2021 I'm quite sure the car is named Jibouti, but that's not it's model name. I notice in your quotes he doesn't call it the Jibouti, he just calls it Jibouti, like he referred to people by name. Whatever it was, he gave it that name which must have had some importance to him. I believe Sopwith also had a small aircraft named Snipe, but aircraft is not where my main knowledge lies, so I could be wrong. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Man Posted May 30, 2021 Share Posted May 30, 2021 This one is a French ambulance...seating is fore and aft (2 person) you can see the long drive belt That's a Bedelia cyclecar ambulance prototype. During WWI, the French army thought cyclecars would be a handy way of getting injured troops off the front line 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dictator27 Posted May 30, 2021 Share Posted May 30, 2021 18 hours ago, Jeffreyadams100 said: Any thoughts on what would be considered a military scout car during WWII? March 10, 1943 [Captain Alec Francis came over with some Guardsmen in scout cars] There were more than a dozen makers of scout cars in Britain in WW2. Daimler, Morris, Humber, Lanchester, AEC and Guy to name a few. Built to a standard military pattern as a light armoured vehicle often with a crew of four - Commander, driver, gunner and radio operator. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffreyadams100 Posted May 30, 2021 Author Share Posted May 30, 2021 Nicoll was a Captain in the R.A.M.C. in WWI Mobile Ambulance Corp so he'd be familiar with cars in that context as well though not in France. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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