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What is it? Quiz #446


This big edwardian tourer is probably the only one ever made. If you hear the name, you would immediately think you were driving a bicycle! Find out whatever you can about this specific car and maybe other motoristic adventures of this manufacturer. Summarize this in a maximum of 100 words, send it in before Monday, June 5th and you could be the next glorious winner. See next Saturday if you are the winner or otherwise what the correct answer is.

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Freitag Juni 2nd, 2017
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05 Juni 2017, 17:06
Commer(Britain)?
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03 Juni 2017, 06:42
The car is a 1905 Raleigh, designed by T. J. Biggs. It used a four cylinder 10hp Fafnir engine but didn't get past the prototype stage. It was the only car Raleigh produced until 1915 when they built a shaft driven 11hp cyclecar. Most modern references describe it as a 16hp, however Bigg’s own records, written in 1915 (which still exist) clearly call it a 10hp
It was driven in the 1905 Kettleby Hillclimb by G.P. Mills, again as a 10hp.
Theodore James Biggs, of car producers Eastmead-Biggs, would later design the TT humber, racers for Arrol Johnson (including the first engine with an aluminium crankcase and water jacket) and the Beardmore Precision Motorcycle, before he joined Aster Engineering in 1922. He remained with the company through its merger with Arrol-Johnston Ltd in 1927 when it became Arrol-Aster. In 1939, at the age of 70, he joined the Austin Motor Company.
He died in Birmingham in June 1959 at the age of 89

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03 Juni 2017, 00:15
Thinking it is a Duerkopp ca. 1910. Company is located in Bielefeld (DE) and also produced motorcycles and bicycles.
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