Can anyone identify this vehicle?

I have been trying to identify this vehicle without success. Picture was taken in the very early 1950's (in Victoria) but the vehicle looks as though it may have been around for a while.
Can anyone solve this mystery?

WAG

Wot about a boat tail Austin 7 ??

WotSezU?

cya

I think you are right Swishy, but could also be Morris Minor.

Thanks for the input. I felt it must have been an Austin as my father bought an Austin A40 Devon and this tourer/roadster was his brothers car. I did some more research today and it is an Australian coachbuilt version called the "Latrobe Standard Sports"

From 1924-34, rolling chassis of Austin 7s were sent to Australia where Holden Motor Body Works added local custom built tourer and roadster bodies. Australia followed the trend in England to build sports versions of the Austin 7, in 1929, Flood Motor Body Works of St Kilda Rd, Melbourne built the Ace Standard Sports and Latrobe Motors of Latrobe St, Melbourne built the Latrobe Standard Sports. This Ace Sports was built by Flood. They had an all aluminium body with cycle guards. Other Australian coachbuilders included, Lonzar and Robinson, who along with Flood produced the Austin 7 'Meteor', also the 'Comet' by Connelley, the 'Moth' by Sykes and the 'Wasp' by Green.

Holden got started doing these coachbuilds. I often think the first Holden resembled the Austin A40 a little. How Interesting.

I went for Austin 7 even before reading other replies.
My two photos of one in Napier NZ have the rear obscured.
This one from the web doesn't necessarily show a roadster/bobtail rear.

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Roderick

Virtually every body builder in Australia built bodies, mostly sporting types, on Austin Sevens. Most of them built bosies for almost all cars imported CKD (completely knocked down) in the 1920's and 30's.

The reason for importing cars without bodes was to avoid the tax on complete cars, imposed to support the local body building industry.

It is a long stretch to think that the Austin influenced the styling of the first model Holden, the 48-215. Holden started out as Holden Brothers and Frost Limited, an Adelaide based builder of horse-drawn vehicles. In the 1920's, many years before the Holden car, when motor vehicles were imported without bodies, the Holden Brothers Company built bodies for several English vehicles as well as American ones, including Dodge and the cheaper General Motors vehicles, including Chevrolet and Pontiac but probably not for their up-market brands, Cadillac and La Salle. General Motors bought the Company so as to have a body manufacturing facility in Australia.

The first Holden model was a styling exercise built for Pontiac in Dearborn Michigan but rejected by senior management. Sir Lawrence Hartnett, then Managing Director of General Motors Australia, saw the full-sized mockup on a visit to Head Office. He considered it suitable for an Australian car and convinced GM executives. The first three Holden cars made were actually built in America as prototypes for Australian production.
All this information is from books on General Motors and autobiographies by Sir Lawrence Hartnett and S.A. (Sam) Cheney.

A question for the Holden experts.......why didnt the first Holden motors have blue flame heads?.....the other GM cars did..........even Toyota copied the blue flame head.



...This discussion now has its own thread, www.hcvc.com.au/forum/oldjunk/17932-why-...e-flame-heads#199260

We have a Club member who owns one of these Austins. Now as he ages he has a job getting in and out.

As for the blue fire heads I have no idea of why it wasn't used. Maybe GM told them not to. In my books on the history of GMH and others there is no mention of blue fire heads mentioned so I would guess it was the yanks who put a hold on it.

My late cousin Ian May founded the Austin 7 car club...

There is a factory supercharged Austin 7 that looks like this which roles up at the Historic Winton race meeting every now and then. It is not quick by most standards but it blows away the other Austin 7s