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Name these Cars

Class motors..... trouble is I am viewing on my net book at the moment.Will have a better look later on. Thanks for the picture.
 
Yes Frothy but you rarely see the saloon body these days. Everyone wanted to keep the sports cars. Could the back one have the fluted radiator top of a Daimler ?
 
Both registered in the West Riding of Yorkshire pre1932 when the old CC plate was phased out.
 
The cars were registered on Caernarvonshire plates that ran from Jan 1904 to Mar 1931. Both vehicles outside Tynygroes Post office, Conwy. The one on the left definately not a Bugatti, probably a Napier or a Metz. Not sure about the one on the right might be an early Vauxhall. Makes it hard because a lot of small companies did coach work for chassis builders after the Great War. Incidently, Tynygroes was famous for holding one of the earliest hill climb events in the U.K. Pictures probably early 1920,s. Hope this helps.
 
I think the one on the right is a morris (maybe to early for a bull nose) I think the other is Italian maybe fiat or bugatti,
 
Henry and Bertie.............................sorry......... couldn't resist it.................:D
Polly
 
Gazzo I lived in Tyn-y-Groes for 38 years and never once did I hear of a Hill Climb being held there, my wife was born there early 30s. Would you be thinking of Ty-Groes in Anglesey, or Tyn-y-Groes south of Dolgellau where they still hold Hill Climbs in the forest, there is also an activety centre there,
I apologize if I have doubted you, the village is a very tight knit community and when I went there in the early 50s I was a" foreigner"!
 
Gazzo, I have solved the problem of the type of cars in My picture of Tyn -y-Groes Conwy, I wrote to the Beaulieu Motor Museum, the left one is a
Fiat 501 and the other is a Bentley, both from the early 1920`s, both Registered in Caernarfonshire. Geff
 
I can see the Fiat 501 but not the Bentley. Does not look like any bentley I can find. Does not seem to have the Bentley lines somehow.
 
I have forgotten where on earth I got the bit about the West Yorkshire plates. Must have been having an off day. Bye the way ...that is not a satellite dish I can see on the end wall of the house on the left of the picture ?
 
An interesting photograph. The left hand car is certainly a Fiat 501, as stated, but the right hand one is a definately a Daimler, probably a 45HP like, but silghtly earlier than this one.
The location is opposite the Red Lion Hotel, Ty'n-y-Groes, about 8 miles due soth of Llandudno at the B5106 and B5279 crossroads - the building is still recognisable today, although no longer a shop.
 
That car near the shop is a tough one. Not a Bentley though. I think Lloyd might have the answer. I can't find a Daimler of the exact year but over time marks carry style neuances that can be identified. The door handle might be a clue...sort of different and possibly designed and made by the car manufacturer.
 
Funny things do happen in Wales Arkrite but I doubt if they would have had a satellite dish in the early 1920`s
 
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