mangogrooveworkshop
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| posted on 1/5/07 at 10:28 AM |
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Build your car for £248
Hold on to the locosts and in a hundred years they will be worth big dosh
Historic car sells for £113,700
1900 Argyll 5hp spindle seat rear entrance Tonneau (images courtesy of Bonhams
The car sat in an artist's living room for 45 years
A piece of Scotland's motoring history has been sold for more than £100,000 at an auction of collectors' automobiles in London.
The 107-year-old Argyll car is one of the earliest models built at the firm's first factory in Bridgeton, Glasgow.
The car has a five horse-power engine and a top speed of 25mph.
It has not been driven for the past 68 years and has spent the last 45 years in the living room of an eccentric artist from Dublin.
'Silent car'
The Bonham's auction house sale took place at the RAF Museum at Hendon, Greater London.
Scotsman Alexander Govan set up his motor car company in 1899 in Hozier Street, Bridgeton.
He later moved to larger premises in Alexandria, Dunbartonshire.
Bonhams said the first owner was T Pictom Bradshaw of Dublin who accompanied the first leg of the Irish Motor Tour in the car in 1901.
1900 Argyll 5hp spindle seat rear entrance Tonneau (images courtesy of Bonhams)
The 1900 Argyll 5hp spindle seat rear entrance Tonneau
Mr Bradshaw had specified the more robust wooden artillery wheels at an extra cost of £10 over and above the standard £248 list price.
Motor News of November 1901 said the car had a reputation of being the "most silent car in Dublin".
It said that for ease of running "it would be hard to beat it".
Later, the car sat unused for 32 or more years in Mr Bradshaw's garage and was finally bought in 1948 by Dublin painter Paul Egestorff.
He lodged the car in the living room of his first floor flat in Morehampton Road until it was sold to collector Denis Lucey in the 1990s.
Mr Lucey's family loaned it to the Irish Transport Museum.
The current members handbook of the Veteran Car Club of Great Britain records only two earlier surviving Argylls, one in private ownership and one at
the Glasgow Transport Museum.
[Edited on 1-5-07 by mangogrooveworkshop]
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TGR-ECOSSE
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| posted on 1/5/07 at 12:17 PM |
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Scottish engineering at its best
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TangoMan
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| posted on 1/5/07 at 10:52 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by TGR-ECOSSE
Scottish engineering at its best
Erm............. I would hope it has improved a bit since then..
Summer's here!!!!
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akumabito
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| posted on 2/5/07 at 03:51 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by TangoMan
quote:
Originally posted by TGR-ECOSSE
Scottish engineering at its best
Erm............. I would hope it has improved a bit since then..
There are other Scottish products that last a hundred+ years?
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