FORD MODEL T WAGONETTE Bears registration plate SP 5139
£7,768
Auction: 22 July 2006 from 12:00 BST
Description
Another Fife registered 4 cylinder T used in the Hackney trade and dating from c1922. This is an unusual model with a rear compartment with face-to-face bench seats for six (or eight). Its side window panels can be slid out to provide for open-sided summer tours (although these are currently painted in). It has a rear entrance with single step (loose) and sports its original 'HACKNEY CARRIAGE' rear plate. Typical of an early 20s bus the vehicle is fitted with side oil lamps in addition to electric head and wing lamps. The engine is fitted with an oversize radiator to handle the heavy loading that was intended for the vehicle, and although not run for many years the engine turns over freely from the crank handle. Professionally refinished in all-black with varnished wood wheel spokes, it seems to have much of its original rexine trim, although this is thinly overpainted. It has been dry stored since it was restored and is in very sound structural order, being displayed at Alford Motor Museum until being offered for sale. It is fitted with detachable sign-written 'Drambuie' side panels. An attractive detail is the dashboard mounted suppliers plate for 'H K Brown - Motor Engineers - Kirkaldy'. It comes with a spare cylinder head and a set of axle blocks.