A Veteran from 1906 at Little Wakering

We hired this car for our wedding in the summer of 1976 think it cost us two bottles of scotch. The driver took us the long way round from St Mary’s church to the Roslin hotel on Southend seafront for our reception. We felt like royalty as everyone stopped and watched and waved it was a wonderful experience. 

Hi I hired this car off your father-in-law in 1986 for our wedding. At the time he had a golden retriever or might have been a Labrador and when he started the car it jumped in the passenger seat and was ready for a ride out. I swapped the hire of the car for a set of 1909 Cadillac v8 wheels and 4 bottles of scotch, what a car, got lots of pictures.

HI YOU MENTIONED THE ARMSTRONG AT BEAMISH. THAT WAS MY FATHER IN LAWS HE LOVED IT BUT WAS UNABLE TO DRIVE ANYMORE SO HE SOLD IT TO BEAMISH MUSIUM BUT SADLY MY FATHER IN LAW PASSED AWAY 3 WEEKS AGO. MY MOTHER IN LAW HAS A PICTURE OF THEM IN IT. IT WAS A LOVELY CAR

Great to see this 1906 Armstrong Whitworth-I wasn't aware of this car.I have a 1911 15hp Armstrong Whitworth that I have restored.I know of 2 other,unrestored A/Ws-1 in Victoria and the other in northern New South Wales,another restored A/W in Newcastle,New South Wales and Peter Arnolds 2 cars in Queensland.Another A/W from Victoria was sold to a Holland or Belgium collector 3-4 years ago.They are rare birds.If you need more info,let me know.Cheers Min

Robert My AW tourer is currently in pieces but I can send a picture of what it should look like. I would also like to get in touch with Peter Arnold in Australia. Do you have his contact details? You can reach me on stephen@ginnetts.freeserve.co.uk. Many thanks Stephen

Thanks for the photographs Robert, I have been looking for better ones than I currently have of the Beamish car as I have one of the Australian cars. Mine is the oldest one here, an 18-22 HP model B1. It was dated 1910 in the 1960s however we now think it was probably ealier. It looks very similar to the beamish car. I know of 4 restored AWs in Australia including mine and I also have an unrestores 18-22HP.

Just to let you know, my post featuring your photographs went online yesterday, at http://electric-edwardians.blogspot.com/2011/10/armstrong-whitworth-tourer-1906.html

Stephen, do you have any images of your Tourer? I'd be very interested in seeing them

There is at least a fourth Armstrong Whitworth in the UK, there is a 1913 12/50 tourer in pieces in my garage. The plan is to get it rebuilt in time for its centenary. If you look on the Norwegian Railways museum site you'll see another.

Rob, thanks for the info. These are fairly low res images, but I am happy for you to iclude them in a non-commercial aspect like your blog, though I must say i cannot find your connection to that Edwardian site. Good site, though. RH

Actually, here's proof that it is the same car as the one at Beamish - they both have S130, the registration, painted on the radiator! http://www.flickr.com/photos/23689245@N08/3271058723/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/beamishmuseum/5023479385/

Wow! Gorgeous photographs of a lovely car. Apparently there's only three Armstrong-Whitworth's in the UK - one is in the Motor Garage in the 1913 town at Beamish Open Air Museum and is very similar to this one, another is in the Discovery Museum in Newcastle but a two seat coupe, so this could either be the third one, or perhaps the Beamish one if it had been donated to them. Here's the source for saying there are three left; http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/discovery/75years/gallery/?image=19 Would it be possible for me to use the photographs on here for my blog, with you credited and a link to your site of course? Best regards, Rob http://electric-edwardians.blogspot.com

I think that this car has returned to the North East and is now in the Beamish Industrial museum near Newcastle.