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Search for DYX 547 says it was first registered in London.

 

Looks like a ford to me but do not know the model.

 

I think Harry has it before it was possibly sold to private buyer and reregistered.

 

Allan

 

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I really must try and get some work done but....

 

"a 1942 Plymouth P11/P14, one of the most common U.S. military staff cars and a wartime icon of sorts itself"

 

alternatively

 

"a Canadian 1942 Dodge Deluxe, an early Plodge that was identical to that year’s U.S.-market Plymouth but with a Dodge grille badge and ram hood ornament substituted for the Plymouth’s grille badge and Mayflower hood ornament.

 

https://www.curbsideclassic.com/blog/cc-outtake/v-j-day-outtake-1942-dodge-staff-car-eh/

 

Lack of chrome trim suggests that it is an ex US Army Staff Car brought over in WW2.

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I think it is 1930's Ford Model 78 Fordor DeLuxe V8.  Can't see clearly, but do the hubcaps have an elongated V with 2 circles in them = V8?  Pictures on the internet look very similar and they have front and rear split screens, some were also right hand drive.

 

 

 

 

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I think Sue has it !


 

The Ford V8 and Harry’s Plymouth look very similar, but the design on the hubcaps and the shape of the grille on the side of the hood/bonnet (just visible under the drivers right arm) would appear to clinch it !

https://www.manorparkclassics.com/auction/lot/22-1937-ford-model-78-fordor-deluxe-v8/?lot=370&sd=1#

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They are so similar, extraordinary really, but the Plymouth (and Dodge) have the rear lights on the mudguards and the Ford has them on little stalks at the back. Could be slight model variations in both though.

 

https://www.manorparkclassics.com/auction/lot/22-1937-ford-model-78-fordor-deluxe-v8/?lot=370&sd=1

 

Also, if Sue is right then Allan would be right also and that surely wouldn't be fair.

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Definitely Ford hubcaps though and I agree about the grille, so it must indeed be the Ford.

 

https://www.manorparkclassics.com/auction/lot/22-1937-ford-model-78-fordor-deluxe-v8/?lot=370&sd=1

 

How could Plymouth get away with a car that is so similar?

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One pictured just down this page:

 

http://ww2talk.com/index.php?threads/pre-war-cars-in-allied-military-service.8501/page-2

 

"This is a late 30s Ford V8, popularly known as a Fordor. Basic design introduced about 1935-36 in the US, but like most Fords of the time it was built with minor detail variations in various European factories - as this is presumably an RHD car it will have come from either Dagenham or Cork."

 

I'll get my coat.

 

 

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