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Looking for information on this Minerva
Letter to the editor
Hello! My good friend Paul Lucas of Lewes, East Sussex, UK, sent me this photograph. He believes it to be (as do I) a rather grand Minerva saloon. Apparently the car belonged to a customer of his grandfather, a Mr. Coltman of London whose racehorses were trained by him in Lewes. It would be interesting to know a little more about this magnificent car and if it survives.
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vrijdag september 17th, 2021
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Josef Boers
19 September 2021, 14:48
David Grimstead
18 September 2021, 01:04
Not just a grand saloon; a limousine of the Goddess of Automobiles Minerva!
This one looks like the February to July 1930 up-market magazine-advertised 6-cylinder 32/34 H.P. enclosed drive Weymann Limousine/Landaulet, as sold by Minerva Motors (England Ltd.) of Chenies Street, London for £1195 or £1295 if the coachwork was by Carosserie Van den Plas.
Nice if it did surive but it seems quite a lot of 1920s-30s, 6-8 seater Minervas were used as chauffered day-hire cars, a service Minerva themselves offered to the likes of race-goers and golfers. Some “bus companies” advertised that they had fleets of them in the 1930s, which perhaps confirms their reported value for money; by 1931 a similar 22/28 limousine could be bought new for £895.
If the bodies were still good when the engines gave out they suffered the ignomany of having other engines fitted, like 24 H.P. Humbers. Even so many were still in use and for sale in the 1940s...
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This one looks like the February to July 1930 up-market magazine-advertised 6-cylinder 32/34 H.P. enclosed drive Weymann Limousine/Landaulet, as sold by Minerva Motors (England Ltd.) of Chenies Street, London for £1195 or £1295 if the coachwork was by Carosserie Van den Plas.
Nice if it did surive but it seems quite a lot of 1920s-30s, 6-8 seater Minervas were used as chauffered day-hire cars, a service Minerva themselves offered to the likes of race-goers and golfers. Some “bus companies” advertised that they had fleets of them in the 1930s, which perhaps confirms their reported value for money; by 1931 a similar 22/28 limousine could be bought new for £895.
If the bodies were still good when the engines gave out they suffered the ignomany of having other engines fitted, like 24 H.P. Humbers. Even so many were still in use and for sale in the 1940s...
g.M. m
17 September 2021, 16:23
Google the 'Minervisten' website and contact them.
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This is probably a Minerva type AL (1930 - 1933) with a body by Van den Plas.