Leyland Straight 8 car built 1920-1924

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236717

Reference identifier

CLE20121114014

Title

Leyland Straight 8 car built 1920-1924

Place

Leyland

General notes

"Designed by J G Parry Thomas and buit at Leyland from 1920-1924, This car was raced at Brooklands in 1928 and lapped at 128mph"
On display at a leyland motors openday, it was in the apprentice training centre at Leyland Motors in the late 60s and the ‘advanced’ fitting apprentices helped with the restoration. The car still exists and now resides in the British Motor Museum at Gaydon in the Midlands.
Not this particular car, but it was a Leyland Eight which Michaels Collins, the famous Irish revolutionary, was a passenger in when he was ambushed and killed in 1922.

Medium

Photographic print

Colour

Monochrome

Original image size

16 x 11.3cm

Year of image

1976

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Subjects

INDUSTRY > Other industries

Place Names > Leyland

TRANSPORT > Road

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