Guess that car

Apparently not, and that grille could easily be Bentley. Problem is the Bentleys came with so many different bodies, because you could order the chassis and have a one off body built for yourself....now I cannot find a 30's Bentley with that styling...:(
 
Fazda said:
Following that logic...it could be a Bentley from Pretoria...:p
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Heheh.. now that you mention it ! :)

Which reminds me of a story... my dad is an artist, paints pictures and such, and in the 90s the gallery got a request for some portraits for some patron in Pretoria... so off my dad an I puttered in his beetle and met a man who had converted a very large house into a storage warehouse for his cars. I was not allowed in, but my dad returned with tales of expensive rides that he was to paint portraits of... from 1930 Bentley's to 1950 Ferrari's amongst others. Anyway, the car owner was happy to pay R6Million for a Bently then, but not the thousands requested for photo-realistic 2mx5m paintings in oils of each of the cars. Old car owners are weird.
 
Fazda said:
Thanks! How kind of you!! :p
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Yeeps... let me rephrase that... some, not all, very very very very very very very very old car owners, may be considered weird, on Halloween, by a certain forumite !
 
uhm...small correction :o
Shouldav been: not Lagonda but from UK.

and yes, that grill does look like one from a Bentley...but no connection.
 
HammerDown said:
uhm...small correction :o
Shouldav been: not Lagonda but from UK.

and yes, that grill does look like one from a Bentley...but no connection.
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Argh... grumble... my entire morning's productive Googling outside the UK has just been for nothing! I need coffee now...

/cracks knuckles
/stretches
/starts again
 
To make up for that bungle:

It was raced by a woman - the CEO's secretary.

It has a racing connection with Sterling Moss, although he was not the one racing them ... which would kinda make sense, since he was just getting writing down at that time.
 
You've lost me :cry:

The only connection to Stirling that I can think of is his sister Pat Moss-Carlson and her husband, and they both raced Saab's........:confused:
 
You heading in the wrong direction..... she was probably only a twinkle in her father's eye at that time ;).....we're talking mid 30s
 
Looks like the search has fizzled out so another lead:
They were made in Brixton Road, London from 1926 to 1932 and in Maidenhead, Berkshire, from 1932 to 1936.
Raced by Stirling's parents.
 
Well, well, well - looks as if I'm never too old to learn!! :D

Marendaz Special cars were made in Brixton Road, London SW9, England from 1926 to 1932 and in Maidenhead, Berkshire, England from 1932 to 1936.
DMK (Donald Marcus Kelway) Marendaz served as an apprentice at Siddeley-Deasy before the first World War. He left to join the Royal Flying Corps in 1916, training as a pilot and serving in France until invalided out in 1918 with the rank of lieutenant. After 1918, he joined Alvis, but was sacked, and shortly afterwards started Marseel with a Mr Seelhaft; the company manufactured gearboxes for the Emscote car. Emscote didn't take all the gearboxes they made, so the surplus were used with Coventry-Simplex engines to make complete cars. The company changed its name to Marseal in 1923, when Seelhart left. Between 1920 and 1925, when Marseal failed, as many as 1200 cars might have been made in the Coventry factory.
After a brief period in the City of London, in 1926 the 'Captain' started DMK Marendaz Ltd in the premises of the London Cab Company in Brixton, where the London agents for Bugatti and Graham-Paige were also based. The cars were attractive-looking with a Bentley-like radiator and mainly used Anzani engines. Model names were often confusingly complex with the 11/55, 14/55 and 14/125 also being called the 1½ litre. A strange departure was the 1495 cc straight-eight which used a special Anzani crank and Marendaz designed block. Although catalogued in normal and supercharged form, it is thought not to have got past the prototype stage. Although supporting an ambitious racing programme, very few cars were made and it seems that the company's main income derived from tuning and servicing work and the sales of used sporting cars. Somewhere between 20 and 50 cars were made between 1926 and 1932. Captain Marendaz had an aversion to journalists and so exactly what happened in the factory is often a mystery. He was also famous for threatening legal action against anyone who made remarks about his cars he did not agree with.
In 1932 the company was re-organised as Marendaz Special Cars Ltd and moved to Cornwallis Works, Maidenhead where GWK and Burney cars had also been made. The cars at first used American Continental engines with Marendaz cylinder heads and manifolding but later were probably completely built by Marendaz as he redesigned the block. The gearboxes might also have been Marendaz designed, but some by Moss were used. Sales were again supported by a considerable racing programme including entries by Captain Marendaz himself up to 1931 and his secretary Miss Dorothy Summers up to 1936. They were also raced by Mr and Mrs AE Moss, the parents of Sir Stirling Moss.
Production seems to have ceased in 1936 but possibly a few cars were made in 1937. Estimates of production range from about 80 to 120 cars in total, including those from Brixton. Survivors from the Brixton days are rare but several 13/70 and 15/80 range still exist.
The Captain went on set up Marendaz Aircraft Ltd in 1936 to build biplanes, but these never reached production. He was also a supporter of Oswald Moseley, leader Of the British Union of Fascists and this led in 1940 to him being jailed on security charges. He was released after a few days. After the war, he emigrated to South Africa where he built small diesel engines. He returned to England in 1972 and died in 1988 at the age of 91.
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Nice one HammerDown! :p
 
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