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Car Of The Day: May 28, 2018; Zylmex '14 Vauxhall Prince Henry
Topic Started: May 28 2018, 02:14 AM (136 Views)
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Today's car of the day comes from corvairjim's collection, and is Zylmex's 1914 Vauxhall Prince Henry.


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The Vauxhall Prince Henry was a car manufactured by Vauxhall from 1911 to 1914. It had a length of around 4.05 meters (159.4 in) and a weight of 1,250 kg (2,756 lb) depending on the model and the coachwork fitted. It is often thought of as the first sports car insofar as its high performance depends less on brute strength and more on overall excellence of design and sturdiness of construction. Known to Vauxhall as their C-10 three specially prepared cars were entered in the 1200 mile (1900 km) long 1910 Motor Trials named in honour of Prince Henry of Prussia. Replicas of the trial cars sold quickly and became known as Prince Henry Vauxhalls. Prince Henry cars also competed in other international trials including the 1911 St Petersburg to Sebastopol Trial and so two cars were sold to Tsar Nicholas II. A sales and support and distribution branch was opened in Moscow with good results. Hampered by the First World War the office was finally closed after the 1918 revolution. The Prince Henry was a higher tuned version of the Vauxhall 20 hp that had been designed in the winter of 1907-08 by then draughtsman Laurence Pomeroy (1883–1941) when the company's chief engineer F. W. Hodges was away on holiday. The engine was of 4-cylinder monobloc design with side valves and a capacity of 3054 cc giving 40 bhp (30 kW) output. Three of these cars were entered in the RAC 2,000-mile (3,200 km) trial and one won the speed trials at Brooklands which was part of the event as well as winning the fuel economy award for its class. This victory helped Pomeroy to be promoted to Works Manager.



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For more information and pictures of the real car please visit: Vauxhall Prince Henry


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corvairjim reported that he found this Zylmex Vauxhall in a box of dollar diecast for sale at a flea market on the weekend of the Keystone CARnival. The base has the now famous misprint of 1941 instead of 1914 - a typo that was never corrected over the production run of this model. The model number, D72 indicates this was from the Dynawheels series, a lower cost (plastic base) alternative to the usually metal-based and higher cost Pacesetters series.


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With the decision to enter the Prince Henry Trial the engine power was increased to 60 bhp (45 kW) at 2800 rpm and as a result of the success replicas were put on the market at £580 with the chassis code C10 and known as the Prince Henry model. Both Austro-Daimler and Vauxhall offered for sale replicas of their Prince Henry models at the 1911 Olympia Motor Show. In 1913 the engine capacity was increased to 3969 cc and the internal designation changed to C. Production continued until 1915. Cars produced in 1914 have flutes in the bonnet that fade out a short way behind the radiator. Of the three Vauxhalls which ran in the Prince Henry Tour, two got full marks for reliability, and all did about 65 miles an hour in the speed trial, which was really quite good for that engine with a four-seated body and a full complement of passengers. So many people desired cars of this special type that in 1911 it was made a regular product of the Vauxhall works, and, during the last year or so a new style has sprung up. In this the engine dimensions are 95 by 140 mm., the old bore-stroke ratio having penalized the car under many hill-climbing formulae. All such formulae which do not involve the cubic capacity of the engine are by common acceptance considered advantageous to engines with small bore and long stroke. The chassis follows the lines of the original Prince Henry, but has rather a longer wheel base.



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Another classic diecast in every sense of the word

particularly the error on the base...no way this is a 1941
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Pegers
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i do like the casting...
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pjedsel
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But we should all have a 1941 Vauxhall in our collections. :lol: This is a wonderful little classic car - wish more of this era was done in small scale besides the ones from High Speed.
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Support your local demo derby.

I lacked the awareness this even existed. Cool!
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Dean-o-mite
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I have two wheel variations on the red, and I recently learned of a blue one (which I should be getting from another Garage member soon).

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pjedsel
May 28 2018, 11:02 AM
But we should all have a 1941 Vauxhall in our collections. :lol: This is a wonderful little classic car - wish more of this era was done in small scale besides the ones from High Speed.
Summer has a handful of brass era oldies as well, the smaller ones are comparable in size to the High Speed / Wondrie models. I find the lot of them rather crude, were it not for my fascination with High Speed I wouldn't bother.

Zee also had a brass era Renault, still crude but a half step better than the HS and Summer models. This 1914 Vauxhall is the cream of the crop when it comes to the brass era in 1/64, until one gets into customs such as T bucket hot rods (redline Hot Heap is a 1914 Model T Ford).
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Dean-o-mite
May 28 2018, 02:01 PM
I have two wheel variations on the red, and I recently learned of a blue one (which I should be getting from another Garage member soon).



Didn't know about blue, but I do have a silver variant.
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juantoo3
May 28 2018, 09:23 PM
pjedsel
May 28 2018, 11:02 AM
But we should all have a 1941 Vauxhall in our collections. :lol: This is a wonderful little classic car - wish more of this era was done in small scale besides the ones from High Speed.
Summer has a handful of brass era oldies as well, the smaller ones are comparable in size to the High Speed / Wondrie models. I find the lot of them rather crude, were it not for my fascination with High Speed I wouldn't bother.

Zee also had a brass era Renault, still crude but a half step better than the HS and Summer models. This 1914 Vauxhall is the cream of the crop when it comes to the brass era in 1/64, until one gets into customs such as T bucket hot rods (redline Hot Heap is a 1914 Model T Ford).
That tends to be my thoughts as well - I have some of the Summer and High Speed and others but have always dreamed that someone like Matchbox would have offered their old Model of Yesteryear range in small scale - I know that is mostly wishful thinking as there seems to not be a lot of interest in brass era cars.
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Swifty
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The Mustang II is a Mustang too!
There's a blue one? *Adds another to the ever-growing want list*
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Wow. I'm out of the garage for a couple of days (Downloading my pix to Flickr because of the Photobucket hoo-ha) and another of my cars makes it as Car of the Day.

There's something funny about how I came to find this one: My wife was going through the box of cars mentioned above and found the Vauxhall. She asked me about it and I told her that I'd like to have it, being a fan of these antique "performance" cars. Not happening, because she liked it and found it first. So, since she had some success with that box I decided to go through it once she was done with it. Lo and behold, there was another one of these cars in the box! She hadn't seen it, so I'm glad I took the time to search through the box. I had no idea that these cars were ever made in 1:64. It's definitely in nice condition for rattling around loose in a "junk box" for who knows how long.
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