Show whole topic Mar 10, 2014 7:12 pm
h14 Offline
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Registered since: Nov 30, 2008
Location: Chalandray, France


Subject: Re: V12-6cyl Saloon
Hi SRD,

Interesting find. My V12 is JPH403, and my uncle owned JPH126, a V12 Rapide, back in the 50s. I've wondered about JPH575, as I thought mine was the last V12 built in wartime.
Despite the 1941 registration, this is a much earlier car! The engine is a Sanction 1, the wheel cases have a tail, which 1940 models didn't, and the bonnet grilles are the coarser pattern commensurate with early V12s. The bumpers are also the (more attractive I think) V-section type, whereas later cars had flat *ish) blade bumpers.
Alan Good sold my car via a dealer in Deansgate in 1946, I wonder if there was some factory connection.

Laurence