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Article: For sale - rare city car is one of a kind.(News)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- April 24, 2007
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Byline: By Dic Barton
It was one of the first cars made in Birmingham but was sadly dumped in a Sussex barn some time after the original owner paid just pounds 225 for it.
But this 10/12 horse power swing-seat Tonnea will prove that some secondhand cars do appreciate in value when it fetches up to pounds 22,000 at a London auction.
The rare swing-seat vehicle was built in 1905 by the Alldays & Onions Pneumatic Engineering Company Ltd at its Matchless Works in Fallows ...