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Announced at the end of April 1930 — though ownership was quite separate from Morris Motors — the first Wolseley Hornet was in effect a 2-door 4-seater Morris Minor saloon fitted with an extended engine bay to make room for a small six-cylinder engine in place of the four-cylinder unit that was normal for this size of car.
The car was almost unique among British volume-produced saloons in featuring an overhead camshaft engine [12] though both Wolseley's postwar cars and the Morris Six MS did also use Wolseley's normal single overhead camshafts. Singer's engine was based on the one used in the Super 12 but with larger bore and shorter stroke, giving a capacity of ...
The American actor Steve McQueen owned a Jaguar XKSS for personal use, painted British racing green. He referred to the car as the "Green Rat". [4] [5] In 2010 and 2011 it toured the United States as part of the "Allure of the Automobile" exhibit. Steve McQueen's XKSS is currently on display in Los Angeles, California at the Petersen Automotive ...
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In any year, Steve McQueen’s “Small Axe” would be a historic achievement. Shining a light on little-known tales of Black pride and heroism from the U.K.’s Windrush generation, each ...
Actor Steve-O is checked out by fire fighters after being brought down a Hollywood billboard in August 2020. (Photo: Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) (Kent Nishimura via Getty Images)
The Riley 16 hp is a car made by the British Riley company from 1937 to 1940. It slotted into Riley's range immediately below their 18 hp V8 model. Announced in September 1937 for the Earls Court Motor Show [2] it became one of the two genuine Riley models in the rationalised range that followed the 1938 takeover by the Nuffield Organization.
The Sunbeam-Talbot Ten is a compact executive car or small sports saloon manufactured by Rootes Group in their Clément-Talbot factory in North Kensington between 1938 and 1939, and then reintroduced after the Second World War and sold between 1945 and 1948. [1] It was at first a two-door then a four-door sports saloon.